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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 Social Sciences Dean's Ambassadors Council kicks off their Hot Topics Debate series this quarter with the ever-entertaining experts of debate, political science professors Mark Petracca and William Schonfeld, and illustrious moderator, political science professor Wayne Sandholtz. The issue up for debate: health care as a fundamental constitutional right.  
 
November 12, 2009  
7:00 p.m.  
Parkview Classroom Building, Room 1100 (bldg 403 on campus map)  
 

The Minds of Peace Organization (MOPE) with UCI's Difficult Dialogues Project, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, International Studies, Middle East Studies Student Initiative (MESSI), The Agora, and Peacebuilding Collaborative  
 
present  
 
"A Simulated Negotiation for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement"  
Lead Negotiators: Professor Sapir Handelman(Israeli) and Professor MazenBadra(Palestinian)  
 
October 28-29, 2009  

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 UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality presents:  
 
"Health Care Forum - Making Sense of the Health Care Debate"  
A round table discussion of health care reform  
 
October 27, 2009  
7:30-9:00 p.m.  
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112  
 
Participants include: 

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