March 5 | Women and Politics Reading Group
5 p.m., Freeman Commons (205 HHH)

The Center on Women and Public Policy will host the Women and Politics Reading Group at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5, in Freeman Commons (205 HHH). This month’s selection is Saturday’s Child: A Memoir by Robin Morgan, a former child actor who became a prize-winning author and a national leader in the women’s movement. In Saturday’s Child, she writes about her personal and professional life and her decades-long fight for civil rights.

March 6 | Women’s Human Rights Film Series
12:45 p.m., Humphrey Forum (please note the change in date and time)

The Women’s Human Rights Film Series will feature a free screening of View from a Grain of Sand at 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, in the Humphrey Forum. The movie captures the last 30 years of Afghanistan’s history as lived by three Afghan women. The event is sponsored by the Center on Women and Public Policy.

March 11 | “The Science of Science and Innovation Policy”
10:30 a.m. –noon, Cowles Auditorium

Innovation and entrepreneurship are essential to American competition and to development and progress. With limited financial resources, how should our country balance impending social needs with the potential benefits of scientific research? And how should the United States evaluate potential research projects? Visiting economist Kaye Husbands Fealing will talk about “The Science of Science and Innovation Policy” from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, March 11, in Cowles Auditorium. She will present her work as a science adviser at the National Science Foundation. A panel of respondents will follow her remarks. The discussion is sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy.

March 13 | “The Opportunities and Challenges of Nonprofit Advocacy”
Noon–2 p.m., Humphrey Forum

The Humphrey Institute will host a panel discussion of the “Opportunities and Challenges of Nonprofit Advocacy” from noon to 2 p.m. on March 13 in the Humphrey Forum. Minnesota’s nonprofit organizations have a long history of advocacy and public policy development. The discussion will offer a broad national view of nonprofit organizations and a local analysis of the advocacy being done by nonprofits throughout Minnesota. The panelists include leading academic Jeff Berry, Tufts University; Marcia Avner, director of public policy for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits; and Susie Brown, public policy director at Family and Children’s Service. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by March 7 to Karen McCauley at meyer094@umn.edu or (612) 624-2465. This event is co-sponsored by the Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center, the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, and the Cowles Endowment for the Study of Public Service.

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Once the 2008 presidential candidates are selected, greater attention will be paid to possible running mates. What should we look for in the next vice president? What political factors might influence the selection of a running mate in 2008? The Center for the Study of Politics and Governance and the preeminent journal on the presidency, Presidential Studies Quarterly, will sponsor a conference on the vice presidency featuring Vice President Walter F. Mondale from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Monday, March 24, in Cowles Auditorium. Leading experts from around the country will address these questions with Vice President Mondale and discuss the selection of the vice presidential nominees. The program is free and open to the public, but advance registration is requested at cspg@umn.edu.

March 26 | Ronald Heifetz lecture on leadership
12:30–1:45 p.m., Cowles Auditorium

Ronald Heifetz, King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, will give a public lecture about adaptive leadership from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, in Cowles Auditorium. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Integrative Leadership and the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance.

March 26 | “Norway and the United States in the 21st Century”
6–7 p.m., Cowles Auditorium

Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre will address the relationship between “Norway and the United States in the 21st Century” from 6 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, in Cowles Auditorium. Since 1989, Støre has held a number of senior posts with the Norwegian government. Before taking up his current post, he was chief of staff at the World Health Organization. And from 2003 to 2005, he was secretary-general of the Norwegian Red Cross. He became Norway’s minister of foreign affairs in 2005. The visit from the minister is presented in partnership with the Royal Norwegian Consulate General, the Minnesota International Center, and the Humphrey Institute. Admission to the public forum is free, but advance registration is requested. Please register online at www.micglobe.org or call (612) 625-4421.

March 26 | Front Runners: Women with Political Ambition
6–8 p.m., State Capitol rotunda (please note the change in date and location)

Front Runners will hold its next monthly workshop for women interested in electoral politics from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, at the State Capitol. Participants will meet with women legislators and discuss the changing role of women in government. A capitol tour will conclude the workshop, but spots are limited. Please RSVP to Debra Fitzpatrick at harex004@umn.edu by March 13. For more information, visit the Center on Women and Public Policy website.

March 27 | Art, public policy, and national security
7–9 p.m. at the Weisman Art Museum

Security expert Bruce Schneier, author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World, will talk about the “Theater of Security” from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, at the Weisman Art Museum. In his book, Schneier explains how security works and attempts to bring the reader beyond fear to start thinking sensibly and creatively about security. The Humphrey Institute will co-sponsor this program as part of the Weisman’s new exhibition Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power.

March 27 | Roundtable discussion on social policy implementation
7:30–9:30 p.m., McNamara Alumni Center

The European Studies Consortium and the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota will hold a roundtable discussion for local and regional policy makers, practitioners, and the public. Visiting European experts with experience in proposing and implementing new social policies and programs will discuss the demands, opportunities, and frustrations they have faced. All are invited to this free program from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, at the McNamara Alumni Center. E-mail Laura Seifert at seif0056@umn.edu for more information. The roundtable is the opening event for the conference, “Social Policy in the New Europe: The Experience of Austria and the Smaller States,” held at the Humphrey Institute March 27–29. See www.cas.umn.edu for details.

March 29 | “Represent! Civic Videos by Area Youth”
1:30–3:30 p.m., Weisman Art Museum

The Center for Democracy and Citizenship will co-sponsor “Represent! Civic Videos by Area Youth” with the Weisman Art Museum from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 29. Teen video artists and civic activists from Hope Community, Inc., in Minneapolis and various community-based programs in West Saint Paul will come together to share their concerns, questions, and vision for the future through conversation and film. Find out more online.

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April 2: Roxanne T. Ornelas, a race, gender, and public policy postdoctoral fellow at the Humphrey Institute, will lecture on “Water and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples” from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. on April 2 in Room 30 at Mondale Hall. Please note the change of date for this program.

April 3: The Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center will co-sponsor a brownbag discussion about nonprofit mergers from 12:45 to 2 p.m. on April 3 in Freeman Commons (205 HHH). Staff members from Project ReDesign, a pilot project at MAP for Nonprofits, will talk about their efforts to counsel nonprofit organizations considering a merger.

April 8: Congressman James Oberstar will keynote this year’s Freeman Lecture on Tuesday, April 8, in Cowles Auditorium. Panelists will address current conditions and problems confronting Minnesota’s water supply. More information will be posted on the Freeman Forum website.

April 9: The Sawyer Seminar will feature a lecture by Mark Juergensmeyer, director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at 4 p.m. on April 9 in Cowles Auditorium. Juergensmeyer is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution, and South Asian religion and politics.

April 10: The Sawyer Seminar continues with a presentation by Andrew S. Natsios, the Distinguished Professor in Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, at 4 p.m. on April 10 in Cowles Auditorium. Natsios has served as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and managed USAID’s reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan.

April 10: Citizens sometimes feel shut out of the political process or unsure of how to exert influence on issues. In Citizenship 101, a workshop co-sponsored by the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, participants will learn about tools and avenues for exercising their democratic rights. All are welcome from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, at the Weisman Art Museum.

April 17: The Sawyer Seminar series concludes with a lecture from Hany El-Banna at 4 p.m. on April 17 in Cowles Auditorium. He is the co-founder and president of Islamic Relief, the largest Western-based international Muslim relief and development organization.

April 17: Senior Fellow Harry Boyte argues that our society requires a much deeper focus on “civic agency”—the collective abilities of citizens and communities to work across differences on common challenges. Boyte will address these ideas in “How to Save Democracy in the 21st Century” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, at the Weisman Art Museum.

April 18: All are invited to a graduation ceremony for the 2007–08 class of international fellows at 4 p.m. on April 18 in Cowles Auditorium. Refreshments will be served.

April 21-22: Senior Fellow Tim Penny will headline the 2008 Center for Integrative Leadership conference, “Making Communities Work: Leadership Across Public, Private, Nonprofit, and Geographic Boundaries,” April 21-22 at the Humphrey Institute. Registration for the two-day event is $80 per person. Find out more online or contact Joyce Hoelting at (612) 625-8233.

April 28: The Humphrey Institute will co-host a panel discussion on diplomacy and democracy building around the world at 6 p.m. on April 28 in Cowles Auditorium. The program is presented in partnership with the National Democratic Institute, International Republican Institute, and the American Academy of Diplomacy.

April 29: Political scholar Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, will talk about his new book, The Spirit of Democracy, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on April 29, in Cowles Auditorium. Dean J. Brian Atwood will moderate the conversation.

April 29: Charles M. Denny, Jr., the 2007–08 Louis W. Hill, Jr., Fellow in Philanthropy, will conclude his one-year fellowship with a public presentation of his research on corporate philanthropy and citizenship. All are welcome to the Hill Symposium from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on April 29 in Cowles Auditorium.

February 12, 6 p.m.: Political observer Ted Van Dyk, author of Heroes, Hacks, and Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside (University of Washington Press 2007), will discuss his book at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 12, in the Humphrey Forum. He will talk about his long career as a presidential candidate adviser and offer his take on the 2008 presidential race. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Books will be available for purchase.

February 13, 12:45 p.m.: Merritt Clapp-Smith, a planner with the St. Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development, will talk about redevelopment plans for the Ford Plant site from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Room 184 of the Humphrey Center.

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February 18, 3 p.m.: Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne will talk about his new book Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right from 3 to 4:15 p.m. on February 18 in Cowles Auditorium.

February 20, 3:30 p.m.: The Race, Gender, and Public Policy (RGPP) initiative will host a discussion with Professor Wendy Chapkis about “Trafficking in Human Rights: Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights” from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on February 20 in the Wilkins Room (215 Humphrey Center). Chapkis will discuss her research, which considers the effects of governmental policies on human rights, like the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, while evaluating their impact on women’s sexual activity. All are welcome. RGPP postdoctoral fellow Julie Hua will moderate.

February 21, 12:30 p.m.: All are invited to a half-day seminar on “Race and Gender Along the Global Assembly Line” from 12:30 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 21, in the Wilkins Room (215 Humphrey Center). Vera Fennell, an RGPP postdoctoral fellow at the Humphrey Institute, will moderate the program featuring keynote speaker Bama Athreya, executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum. The program will conclude with a screening of the film Mardi Gras: Made in China. There is no charge to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

February 26, 7:30 p.m.: Professor Larry Jacobs will engage in a conversation about American democracy and dissent with Daniel Ellsberg at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26, as part of the University of Minnesota’s “Great Conversations” series. Ellsberg is a former American military analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the U.S. government’s decision making during the Vietnam War. The publication of this document set in motion a chain of historic events that ended both the Nixon presidency and the Vietnam War. Tickets are $28.50 ($23.50 for U of M faculty, staff, students, and UMAA and MPR members). To order tickets call (612) 624-2345. For more information, visit www.cce.umn.edu/conversations/2008conversations/.

February 27, 5:30 p.m.: The Women’s Human Rights Film Series will feature Crimes of Honour at 5:30 p.m. on February 27 in the Humphrey Forum. Filmed in Jordan and on the West Bank, Crimes of Honour examines the practice of femicide, or honor killings, found throughout the Islamic world. There is no charge to attend.

February 28, 4 p.m.: The Sawyer Seminar will feature a lecture about human rights by Harvard law professor David Kennedy at 4 p.m. on February 28 in Cowles Auditorium. Kennedy teaches international law, international economic policy, legal theory, law and development, and European law. He will talk about the different human rights agendas around the world and the tension caused by these differences.

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March 5: The Women and Politics Reading Group will discuss Saturday’s Child: A Memoir by Robin Morgan at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5, in Freeman Commons (205 HHH).

March 6: Not For Sale and So Deep a Violence are two compelling short films that address prostitution and trafficking as linked violent actions against women. The Center on Women and Public Policy will host screenings of both films at 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, at the Humphrey Institute.

March 11: Visiting economist Kaye Husbands Fealing will talk about the “Science of Science and Innovation Policy” from 10:30 a.m. to noon on March 11 in Cowles Auditorium.

March 11: The Women’s Human Rights Film Series will feature a free screening of View from a Grain of Sand at 12:45 p.m. on March 11 at the Humphrey Institute. The movie captures the last 30 years of Afghanistan’s history as lived by three Afghan women.

March 12: The March Front Runners workshop will focus on establishing a leadership track record. Participants will gather at the state capitol.

March 13: The Humphrey Institute will host a conversation with Tufts University professor Jeff Berry on March 13 in the Humphrey Forum (time TBA). Berry will talk about his research on nonprofit organizations and public policymaking. More information will follow.

March 24 or 25: The Center for the Study of Politics and Governance will hold a conference on the vice presidency featuring Vice President Walter F. Mondale. Watch the center’s website for more information.

March 26: Roxanne T. Ornelas, an RGPP postdoctoral fellow at the Humphrey Institute, will lecture on “Water and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples” from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. on March 26 in Room 30 at Mondale Hall.

March 26: Ronald Heifetz, King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, will give a public lecture about leadership from noon to 1:30 p.m. on March 26 in Cowles Auditorium.

March 26: Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre will participate in a public forum at the Humphrey Institute from 6 to 7 p.m. on March 26. Watch www.micglobe.org for more information.

March 27: A roundtable discussion for regional social policy practitioners on the European experience of implementing social policy reform will be held at 7:30 p.m. on March 27 at the McNamara Alumni Center. E-mail Laura Seifert at seif0056@umn.edu for more information.

March 27: Security expert Bruce Schneier, author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World, will talk about the “Theater of Security” from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, at the Weisman Art Museum. The Humphrey Institute is co-sponsoring this program as part of the Weisman’s new exhibition Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power.

March 29: The Center for Democracy and Citizenship will co-sponsor “Represent! Civic Videos by Area Youth” with the Weisman Art Museum from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on March 29. Teen video artists and civic activists will share concerns, questions, and visions for the future through conversation and film. Find out more online.

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presidential candidate adviser and offers his take on the
2008 presidential race. Senior Fellow emerita Arvonne Fraser
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January 9, 6 p.m.: The Center on Women and Public Policy will host the next Front Runners workshop at 6 p.m. on January 9 in Freeman Commons (205 HHH). Front Runners is a once-a-month series of networking, strategizing, skill building, and peer support workshops for women interested in changing the world through electoral politics. The January workshop will teach participants how to advance their goals through Minnesota’s precinct caucus system. There is no charge to attend, and all are welcome.

January 18, 2 p.m.: Join the Center on Women and Public Policy for a lecture and book signing with feminist writer Jessica Valenti, editor of Feministing.com, at 2 p.m. on January 18 in Freeman Commons (205 HHH). Valenti will talk about feminist blogging and sign copies of her book Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters.

January 22, Noon: The Center for the Study of Politics and Governance invites you to a discussion about “The State of Minnesota’s Republican Party and Conservative Movement” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on January 22 in Cowles Auditorium. The panelists include Steve Sviggum, Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry commissioner; Bill Cooper, former chair of the Minnesota Republican Party; Representative Mary Liz Holberg; and Jeff Blodgett, executive director of Wellstone Action.

January 23, 5 p.m.: The Women and Politics Reading Group will discuss The Education of Jane Addams by Victoria Bissell Brown at 5 p.m. on January 23 in Freeman Commons (205 HHH).

January 30, 12:45 p.m.: Hennepin County commissioner and Humphrey Institute alumnus Peter McLaughlin will talk about the work being done in the aftermath of the I-35W bridge collapse. The discussion will be held from 12:45 to 2 p.m. on January 30 in the Humphrey Forum. This program is co-sponsored by the alumni services office and the State and Local Policy Program.

January 30, 5:30 p.m.: The Women’s Human Rights Film Series will continue at 5:30 p.m. in the Humphrey Forum with a free screening of Killer’s Paradise, a documentary on the brutal killing of women in Guatemala.

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February 13: Merritt Clapp-Smith, a planner with the St. Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development, will talk about redevelopment plans for the Ford Plant site from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in the Wilkins Room (215 HHH).

February 13: The Center on Women and Public Policy will host a Front Runners workshop at 6 p.m. in Freeman Commons (205 HHH).

February 27: The Women’s Human Rights Film Series will feature Crimes of Honour at 5:30 p.m. on February 27 in the Humphrey Forum. Filmed in Jordan and on the West Bank, Crimes of Honour examines the practice of femicide, or honor killings, found throughout the Islamic world. There is no charge to attend.

February 28: The Sawyer Seminar will feature a lecture about human rights and humanitarianism by Harvard law professor David Kennedy at 4 p.m. on February 28 in Cowles Auditorium.