Fall conferences

It isn’t only the Admissions Office that is busy this time of year.  Even while students are feeling the midterm heat, the daily parade of speakers and meetings continues, and community members manage to squeeze out the time to attend.  Most recently, two conferences bracketed this week.  The first, on Tuesday, “Thinking About Think Tanks,” was put together by Prof. Daniel Drezner, and my sources tell me it was a great success.  The site includes the Twitter conversation, which will give you a sense of the atmosphere.

Closing out the week is today’s PhD conference.  Organized by PhD program students, who also present papers or act as panel discussants, the annual event is this year entitled “Critical Perspectives: Contemporary Issues in International Relations.”  More details can be found on the day’s schedule.  This is the eighth PhD conference, and proceedings from previous events can be found on the conference website.

It isn’t like this is the one week of the semester offering a discussion-oriented event to enhance in-class learning.  Next Friday, the community is invited to the inaugural presentation of the Initiative on Mass Atrocities and Genocide (IMAGe), a new collaborative effort between Fletcher and the broader Tufts community.  This first event will feature four professors, each bringing a different lens to the topic of how we manage memories of violence.  Details can be found here.

And while I’m linking to the calendar, I should point you to this newly useful resource.  While we may, in the past, have been (ahem) relaxed about ensuring that every event was listed, you’ll now be able to learn about nearly everything happening outside the classroom every day.