UC’s Department of Political Science and International Relations, together with the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (Christchurch) warmly invites you to a public seminar by Professor Lise M Howard.

Lise Morjé Howard is a tenured Professor at Georgetown University, with joint appointments in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She teaches and conducts research on matters of war, peace, and security. Dr. Howard earned her A.B. in Soviet Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She studied Philology at Leningrad State University, and then Soviet Constitutional Law at the re-named St. Petersburg State University, during the collapse of the constitutional order. She has held yearlong residential fellowships at Stanford University (CISAC), Harvard University (Belfer Centre), and the United States Institute of Peace. Dr. Howard researches and teaches courses about international relations, war termination, the Russia-Ukraine war, peacekeeping, and U.S. foreign policy. She has conducted fieldwork in conflict zones in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Eurasia.

This is a free event open to UC staff, students, and the public.