John Horne is professor emeritus of modern European history at Trinity College Dublin and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author and editor of a number of books and over 100 chapters and articles, many relating to the Great War. Among his latest publications are (ed.) A Companion to World War One (Oxford, Blackwell-Wiley, 2010); (ed.) Vers la guerre totale: le tournant de 1914-1915 (Tallandier, 2010); and with Robert Gerwarth, War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War (Oxford, 2012). In this talk, he will ask whether World War I was really a large-scale revolution. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/hornej

Aaron James, professor of philosophy at University of California-Irvine, works on rationalism and the foundations of moral and practical judgment, with a focus on constructivism (what it is, how it might explain objectivity, and whether it could provide a foundational theory). He is author of Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy (Oxford, 2012), and is planning a book on the morality and political economy of distribution for a world of increasing ecological scarcity and lower growth rates (at least in the advanced world). In this talk, James will discuss the potential consequences of Modern Money Theory (MMT) for trade partner countries. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/jamesa

Ludivine Bantigny is assistant professor of history at University of Rouen Normandy. In recent years, her research has been devoted to the 1968 event and the various mobilizations that followed (feminisms, "sexual revolution", political cultures). She is the author of 1968, de grands soirs en petits matins (Seuil, 2018); La France à l'heure du monde. De 1981 à nos jours (Seuil, 2013, 2019); and «Prolétaires de tous les pays, qui lave vos chaussettes ?». Le genre de l'engagement dans les années 1968 (PUR, 2017, with Fanny Bugnon and Fanny Gallot). In this talk she will discuss the projects that were forged by the protagonists of the social and political movement in 1968. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/bantignyl

Erik Voeten is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department. He has completed research on the United Nations, the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and broader issues of international law and cooperation. He is also editor of the academic journal International Organization. In this event, Voeten will discuss evidence that the European Court of Human Rights is responding to backlash from consolidated liberal democracies. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/voetene

Sally Haslanger is a professor of linguistics and philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published on topics in metaphysics, epistemology and feminist theory, with a recent emphasis on accounts of the social construction of race and gender. In this event, Haslanger will argue that laws and institutions depend on social meanings embedded in a system of power relations, internalizing an ideology that distorts, obscures, and occludes important facts and results in a failure to recognize the interests of subordinated groups. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/haslangers

Professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Rouen, Raphaëlle Branche has worked extensively on colonial violence, focusing on French Algeria. She examines issues of illegal violence such as rape, torture, summary executions mainly from the point of view of the perpetrators. She has also addressed more specifically the issue of prisoners during the French-Algerian war (1954-1962) and acts of violence committed by the Algerian civilians and combatants during the war of independence as well as during the 1871 uprising. In this event, Branche will discuss amnesty laws passed in the 1960s to quell violence. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/brancher

Graduate student Brenden Wood will discuss his thesis research on accountability between Russian civil society and the federal government in regard to prison reform. The talk will focus on the Russian Civic Chamber, an institution meant to function as an intermediary between the federal government and civil society, but criticized as being ineffective due to its lack of constitutional authority and the fact that its members are in part appointed directly by the Kremlin. Wood will demonstrate that prison activism in the Chamber is not completely debilitated or controlled, but rather that the Chamber is able to exercise a relatively high degree of autonomy. As a result, an active prison rights community is operating within civil society in spite of the growing limitations. Read more

The Alexander Hamilton Society at Ohio State is pleased to announce our first public event of the semester! Join us for an expert-led debate featuring Michael Singh (left), Lane-Swig Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Randall Schweller of the Ohio State Political Science Department. Mershon Center Director Christopher Gelpi will moderate. Audience members will have the chance to ask these experts questions during a 30 minute Q and A at the end of the event. Free pizza and Coke products will be provided beforehand. Further details on the speakers as well the event's time and place can be found below. We hope to see you there! Read more and register

How many times have we heard someone in the tech industry proclaim that their new product is "revolutionary" or "disruptive"? Radical upheaval in the ways we live and communicate is now so frequent that it doesn't even strike us as unusual. Yet the original iPhone came out only a decade ago, in the same year that Netflix started streaming. Facebook and YouTube came into existence just a few years before that. On the timeline of human history this all happened mere moments ago, and as technology becomes more and more rapidly integrated into our everyday lives, we would do well to take a step back and contemplate exactly what is happening. This conference is part of the 2018-19 Technology COMPAS program investigating the many ways in which our lives have been changed by our technological creations. Read more and register