Public Events

The International Studies Program sponsors "campus colloquia" and other public events aimed at providing information about and encouraging interest in international affairs.

Winter 2017

• Buraku Liberation and the Taming of Human Rights in Japan
• Driving Detroit
• Global Authoritarian Trends: Evidence from Turkey, the Philippines, and Central Europe

Fall 2013

• To be or not to be:  A Story of an Egyptian Revolution

Fall 2012

• Africa:  Conflict and Conflict Prevention
  

• 20 Years After the End of the USSR
• China:  Triumphs and Lingering Concerns

2011

• Ten Years after 9/11:  Reflections on How America has Changed
• "Not for Sale" - A discussion on the global sex trafficking industry and efforts to fight it.
• OU Scholars to explore impacts of political protests in the Arab World
• Whose Borders are They?
• Borders, Immigrants and National Values:  Shaping Immigration Policy to Benefit Everyone

2010

• Problems of International Disaster Relief:  Haiti and Chile
• Russia Rising:  The Return of a Major World Power
• Foreign Policy and National Security Challenges for the Next President

2008

• Elections and Civil Conflict in Kenya

2007

• Burma's Saffron Revolution:  A Peaceful Struggle Against the Odds
• Iraq:  Where are we?  What should we do?
• Latin America:  Change and Challenge