Jan15
Bonner Leadership Program Applications Open January 15-March 15
January 15, 2022, 12:00 AM to March 15, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Join Mason’s Folklore Program Studies program on-line or in-person for an open house. Meet professors, current students, and learn what careers you can enjoy with graduate degree in folklore studies!
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Measuring Norms using the BESA method
An intercampus exchange of advanced social movement scholarship
Join us as we hear about and discuss research carried out by advanced PhD students, faculty, postdocs, and movement based activist scholars. This workshop is a new collaborative exchange between academic institutions with specialties in disciplined social movement research.
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Get the chance to ask any questions you have about your first semester at Mason in the Global Affairs MA program.
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Dr. Alison Dundes Renteln, a Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Law, and Public Policy at University of Southern California, joins us for this event.
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Toward a Global Duty to Rescue
Prof. Renteln will provide a comparative analysis of policies requiring individuals to render assistance to those in distress. Although the conventional wisdom is that civil law systems generally include this mandate and common law systems do not, there appears to be a trend toward greater legal compulsion for rescue in both. Prof. Renteln will also discuss the implications of finding a cross-cultural consensus supporting a legal duty to rescue for global justice.
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Climate change and extreme weather events are already forcing millions of people to move, but current migration laws were not designed with climate migration in mind. On this webinar, experts will discuss how climate change creates migration, what steps the United States can take to respond to this new challenge, and how immigrants are part of the solution.
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