June 3-4, 2005
University of Washington

Allen Buchanan, Department of Philosophy, Duke University

Books include Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (with Dan W. Brock); Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec; and Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law.

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Discussant: William Talbott, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington

Kanchan Chandra, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Author of Why Ethnic Parties Succeed and a forthcoming volume on constructionist theory.

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Discussant: Kate Stovel, Department of Sociology, University of Washington

Gail Dubrow, School of Architecture and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Washington

Author of Sento at Sixth and Main: Preserving Landmarks of Japanese American Heritage, and co-editor of Restoring Women's History through Historic Preservation.

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Discussant: Richard Startz, Department of Economics, University of Washington

Debra Friedman, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

Formerly Associate Provost for Academic Planning at the University of Washington, she is author of Towards a Structure of Indifference: The Social Origins of Maternal Custody.

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Discussant: Richard Startz, Department of Economics, University of Washington

Henry Hale, Department of Political Science, Indiana University

Author of the forthcoming Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State and currently finishing a second book on secessionism.

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Discussant: Stephen Hanson, Department of Political Science and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Stephen Howe, Department of History, University of Oxford

Author of Empire: A Very Short Introduction; Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture; and Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes.

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Discussant: Ellis Goldberg, Department of Political Science and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Stathis Kalyvas, Department of Political Science, Yale University

Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale; author of The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe and the forthcoming The Logic of Violence in Civil War.

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Discussant: Erik Wibbels, Department of Political Science, University of Washington

Satoshi Kanazawa, Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Methodology Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

Author of Order by Accident: The Origin and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan (with Alan Miller) and of journal articles in most of the major social science disciplines and in evolutionary psychology.

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Discussant: David Barash, Department of Psychology, University of Washington

Thomas C. Schelling,  Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

Books include The Strategy of Conflict; Micromotives and Macrobehavior; and Choice and Consequence. A Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, he has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Andreas Wimmer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Formerly Director of the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn, he is author of Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Violence and co-editor of Facing Ethnic Conflicts.

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Discussant: Resat Kasaba, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

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