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The Cross-Cultural Center, in conjunction with Verizon Wireless presents

"Rainbow Festival & Conference 2009: Leading Women of the World"
Malalai Joya, Afghan Activist

Thursday, November 5, 2009
7:00-8:00 p.m.
UC Irvine Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium

The Center for Persian Studies and Culture

presents

"Iran after the June 12, 2009 Elections"

October 28, 2009
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Humanities Instructional Building 13

with

Touraj Daryaee, Associate Director, Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine
“The Green Movement in Iran: Aims and Aspirations”

Mateo Farzaneh, History Department, UC Santa Barbara
“Khuzestan: Mousavi, Bread, and Sand Storms”

Matthew Beckmann, UCI political science assistant professor, studies how presidents push their policy proposals in Congress and the consequences of partisan polarization in Washington - an especially timely topic given the current national debate over healthcare. So how's President Obama faring with his agenda? Beckmann will offer insights - and a glimpse of the White House action - at the University Club Forum when he speaks on "Grading President Obama's First Year." Does Beckmann grade on a curve? Find out!  
 
November 18, 2009  

The Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences and Center for the Study of Democracy present  
 
"Conference on Voting Theory"  
 
Saturday, October 24, 2009  
9:30 a.m.-5:45 p.m.  
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112  
 
Featured talks include:  
"Problems in voting theory" - Donald Saari  
"Problems from a more pragmatic perspective" - Bernard Grofman  

November 9, 2009 marks the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A four day conference hosted by UC Irvine's Center for the Study of Democracy will bring together world renowned scholars and experts to examine the international political, economic, and social changes that have taken place since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the 1989 protests at Tiananmen in Beijing, China.  The conference will kick off with a keynote address from Poland's first post-communist Finance Minister, Leszek Balcerowicz.  

Edmund "Jerry" Brown Jr., Attorney General and former two-term Governor of California (1975-83), will be the featured speaker at a public talk hosted by the School of Social Sciences' Center for the Study of Democracy. Brown will discuss his more than 40-year career in politics and address questions regarding the future of the state of California.

The International Studies Public Forum (ISPF)  
 
presents  
 
"The Institutional Change after Socialism" (Plenary Session of the "1989: Twenty Years After" Conference)  
with Leszek Balcerowicz, Warsaw School of Economics  
First Finance Minister of post-communist Poland, Former President of the National Bank of Poland