Tarak Barkawi is a reader in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He writes on the pivotal place of armed force in globalization, imperialism, and modernization, and on the neglected significance of war in social and political theory. His book on the Indian and British armies in World War II, Soldiers of Empire, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Barkawi was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Center in 2006-07. In this talk, he will examine historiographical debates regarding the Battle of Sangshak, showing how history about war is shaped by those who experienced it. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/barkawit

James Morrow is A.F.K. Organski Professor of World Politics at University of Michigan. His research pioneered the application of noncooperative game theory from economics to international politics. Morrow has written three books, Order within Anarchy; The Logic of Political Survival, coauthored with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson; and G ame Theory for Political Scientists. In this talk, Morrow will discuss how different interpretations of the law led to varying treatment of prisoners during World War I and World War II, and lay out a general argument about how the law can aid warring parties in limiting violence during wartime. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/morrowj

Susan Grayzel is professor of history at University of Mississippi. She is the author of Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (North Carolina, 1999), which won the British Council Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies; Women and the First World War (Longman, 2002); At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge, 2012) and The First World War: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford St. Martins, 2012). In this talk, Grayzel will explore what the war meant to women by drawing upon a range of sources from visual and material evidence to government documents to women's own texts. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/grayzels

A devised new work, conceived and directed by Lesley Ferris (left), co-directed by Jeanine Thompson, with the MFA actors and designers. During the centenary of the USA's 1917 entry into World War I, the Department of Theatre marks this occasion by creating a new work employing verbatim theatre. The source material is drawn from archives, contemporary documents, letters, memoirs, commissioned art, and popular music with a focus on Britain and France and their famous Somme Offensive, the largest battle on the Western Front. Supported with a grant from the Mershon Center. Read more at go.osu.edu/forbiddenzones

The spring COMPAS conference will focus on understanding global inequality. It will begin by considering two basic questions facing proponents of global justice: how to measure well-being as a way of assessing global inequalities and whether rich nations have a duty to alleviate poverty around the globe. We will then consider the significance of global inequality in a variety of domains that raise serious moral concerns, including global governance, trade, migration, and LGBTQ rights. Because one of our aims is to explore how the causes and effects of different kinds of inequality interact with one another, the conference will bring together leading political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, economists, legal scholars, public health experts, and policy advocates who can effectively engage each other. Read more at go.osu.edu/notequal

Taedong Lee is associate professor of political science and international relations at Yonsei University, Seoul. His areas of research include global and sub-national environmental politics and policy, NGO politics, international political economy and social network analysis. Lee recently published Global Cities and Climate Change: Translocal Relations of Environmental Governance (Routledge, 2015). In this talk, Lee examines why local governments become actively engaged in the issue of global climate change, and how global factors influence local governments' choices, policies, and interactions. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/leet

The Alexander Hamilton Society is hosting its second event of the term. We will be having former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Randy Schriver (left) and Wittenberg Professor of Political Science and East Asian Studies Yu Bin for a vigorous debate over the future of U.S.-China security and trade policy. As usual, AHS faculty adviser and military history professor Peter Mansoor will moderate. Free Wings Over and Coke products!   Read more and register

The 1770 Boston Massacre is one of the most famous events in American history, but in her forthcoming book Serena Zabin reveals that the massacre was the climax of months of conflict between occupying British troops, their families and local allies, and the larger Boston population. Occupied Boston was a small city where interwoven strands of politics, love, fear, and desire reshaped everything, including allegiance to Britain. Zabin is a professor of history at Carleton College. Her talk is part of the William Hammond Lecture Series. Zabin will also be part of an informal discussion about writing for a public audience on Friday, March 31, at 11:30 a.m. in 240 Page Hall. A light lunch will be available. Read more