Political Science

Members of Iota Mu, UALR’s political science honor society, have invited a number of candidates for election to attend an informal candidate forum at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in the first floor auditorium in the new Engineering and Information Technology building.

The UALR William H. Bowen School of Law and the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site will hold a special program on immigration in Arkansas, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, in the Friday Courtroom.

American and international students are invited to the UALR International Mixer at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, to meet and greet each other in a  social venue. “We will be signing up students interested in joining a new UALR International Student Association, which is open to all UALR students,” said Dr. Jacek Lubecki, associate professor … Food, Fun on Tap at International Student Mixer

Students from five area high schools will participate in UALR’s International Simulations Association’s United Nations Day Conference from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, at the Donaghey Student Center, offering seminars on topics that include “Model Arab League,” “Model United Nations,” and “International Peacekeeping.”

Historians and activists who lived through the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s will discuss their personal stories of the era from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Ledbetter Hall B at UALR’s Donaghey Student Center.

UALR’s Department of Political Science will host a talk by Professor Hubert Isak of the University of Graz from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, in Room 123 of Ross Hall. Professor Isak will be speaking on recent developments in European Union law and Foreign Policy post-Lisbon Treaty.

Professor Hubert Isak of Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, will visit with faculty and students at the UALR Bowen School of Law Sept. 9-12 as an extension of the UALR exchange program with the European university.

C-SPAN, the public affairs network that in 2003 televised 15 weeks of UALR’s class on President Bill Clinton, plans to air Dr. Margaret Scranton’s fall semester class on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Justin Meeks of Salem, Ark., has another year before he earns a degree in political science from UALR. But he is already practicing what he’s learning. Meeks, 19, won the Republican primary for justice of the peace in his district in Saline County.

Friends and colleagues salute Dr. Neil Snortland for his 33-year career at UALR, teaching, advising, and chairing the Department of Political Science, at a reception from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, May 6, at the Donaghey Student Center’s Upper Concourse.