Ali Çarkoğlu is professor of international relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, where he has been dean at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics since 2013. His recent research focuses on voting behavior, party systems and political parties, religiosity, social capital, public opinion, and Turkish politics. At this event, Çarkoğlu will explore the influence of ideology and identity on public opinion about the use of force to support protesters with political claims in a neighboring state by  discussing three nationally representative field survey experiments conducted in 2014-15 outside the United States. Read more and register at  go.osu.edu/carkoglua

The United States fought the long and costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with an all-volunteer force, even as some service members were deployed for three and even four tours of duty. In the wake of these wars, it is appropriate and useful to discuss the state of America's all-volunteer force. How well has it worked? Will it work in the future? Is it fair, efficient, and sustainable? This conference, organized by retired Maj. Gen. Dennis Laich (left), Richard Herrmann, and Trevor Brown, is part of a series of national events examining the all-volunteer force and democracy in America. It features well-known scholars and commentators on military affairs including Andrew Bacevich, Boston University; retired Col. Larry Wilkerson, College of William and Mary; and Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress. Read more and register at  go.osu.edu/FutureofAVF

Jenann Ismael is professor of philosophy at University of Arizona. Most of her work falls into two classes. The first concerns the philosophy of physics including the structure of space and time, the foundations of quantum mechanics, the role of simplicity and symmetry in physics, and questions about the nature of probability, natural laws and causal relations. The second includes mind, cognition, phenomenology, and the nature of perspective. In this talk, Ismael will point out the connection between fatalism and determinism by linking determinism to totality and totality to transcendence to provide insight into the sort of freedom we have. Read more and register at  go.osu.edu/ismaelj

Scientists have long thought that quantum physics -- the bizarre and fantastic world of non-locality, indeterminacy, and wave/particle duality discovered in the early 20th century -- was confined to the sub-atomic level. In the past decade however, there have been growing hints in fields such as biology and psychology that this foundational classical assumption is mistaken. If evidence continues to mount of quantum effects at the human level, then the social sciences today could be in a situation similar to physics in 1900 - based on a simple but profound mistake, with a revolution just around the corner. This workshop will begin to examine what a quantum social science might look like in practice, with a focus on international politics. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/quantumtheory

Erika Monahan is associate professor of Russian history at University of New Mexico. She will speak about her recent book, The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell, 2016), which received an honorable mention for the Early Slavic Studies Association Book Prize. In the book, Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She demonstrates that trade was a key component of how the Muscovite state sought to assert its authority in the Siberian periphery. By contextualizing merchants and places of Siberian trade in the increasingly connected economies of the early modern period, Monahan argues that Russia was not the "outlier" that most 20th century characterizations portrayed.

David M. Lampton is Hyman Professor and director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Having started his academic career at The Ohio State University Lampton is chairman of the Asia Foundation, former president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and former dean of faculty at SAIS. He is the author of Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (2001); The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (2008); and The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy (editor, 2001). Hampton will discuss  what lies ahead in the U.S.-China relationship a gainst a backdrop that includes nuclear threats between North Korea and the United States, an uncertain future in multilateral trade agreements around the globe, and critical midterm elections in the United States.  Read more and register

Rinku Roy Chowdhury is associate professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Her research focuses on the institutional, ecological and spatial diversity of human-environment interactions in forest-agricultural mosaics, urbanizing ecosystems and coastal mangrove vulnerability to anthropogenic and climate change. She is active in the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network (primarily affiliated with the Florida-Coastal Everglades and Baltimore Ecosystem Study sites) and as a member of the Global Land Project's scientific steering committee. At this event, Chowdhury will examine urban resilience to climate extremes by integrating the Vulnerability Science and Socio-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS) frameworks. Read more (pdf)