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Coming to Campus- September 25, 2006Coming to Campus is a section announcing visiting speakers of note. Those who wish to submit items for this section should send a brief description (maximum 300 words) of the event, including the date, time, and place, and giving the name, title, outstanding accomplishments and, if available, a color photo of the speaker to: Visiting Speaker, Advance, 1266 Storrs Road, Storrs, CT 06269-4144 or by e-mail: advance@uconn.edu, with Visiting Speaker in the subject line. The information must be received by 4 p.m. on Monday, a minimum of two weeks prior to the event. Publication will depend on space available, and preference will be given to events of interest to a cross-section of the University community. Expert on effective government to give international studies lecture |
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| Margaret Levi, the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington, will give a public lecture titled "Achieving Good Government - and Maybe Legitimacy," on Thursday, Oct. 5. It will be held at 7:30 pm in Konover Auditorium, and a reception will follow. Levi is the sole author of three books, Bureaucratic Insurgency: The Case of Police Unions (1977); Of Rule and Revenue (1988); and Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (1997). She is joint author of Analytic Narratives (1998); Cooperation Without Trust? (2005); and Democracy at Risk (2005); and co-editor of The Limits of Rationality (1990); Trust and Governance (1998); and Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science (1999). Her current research focuses on the bases for and effects of trustworthy and effective government. Concurrently, she is working on a range of issues having to do with labor unions and with global justice campaigns. Some of the work builds on the World Trade Organization History Project at the University of Washington, which she co-directed. She also continues to write on issues concerning the analytic narrative approach to the study of complex historical and comparative processes. Levi is also involved in community work. She has served on the Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board and was a member of the first coordinating committee of Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice (SAWSJ). With her husband, Robert D. Kaplan, she has developed a substantial collection of Australian aboriginal art, part of which is on loan to the Seattle Art Museum. The lecture is part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program, which brings distinguished scholars to selected campuses, for the purpose of contributing to the intellectual life of the institution. It is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. |
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