Nevertheless, itinerant scientists coming from large metropolitan areas such as Paris, London, Tokyo, or Boston will quickly realize that the frequency of foreign seminar speakers can be quite low in comparison to what they are used to.
(We wish to) inform you (the head of the immigration office) urgently that in January 2015, a foreign seminar will be organized in Rio de Janeiro and in Florianopolis, which exalts the culture of rape, crimes involving assault and racism, and a deep lack of respect for women".
But it was the American foreign policy seminar she signed up for in her senior year that changed her life.
That's in international law and foreign relations seminar, and we're sort of a mini think tank, and she tasks us to various projects that come up.
A lively foreign-policy seminar won't make the headache go away, but if it's a good one it will keep your mind off it.
They are bombarded with an ever-expanding list of products, ranging from niche studies ("New Kazakh Politics: Inside the Ministry of Energy"), to meetings with various foreign potentates, seminars on trade, weekly e-mails and snap transmissions on disasters.
Dinner turns into a high-powered foreign-policy seminar — to what end, Korda wonders — and Nixon, Korda notices, adopts an inexplicable habit of referring to himself in the third person, telling stories that begin, "When Nixon was President," or, even, "When Nixon was President and Leader of the Free World".
These are, of course, accusations that have been made on Sunday talk shows, in newspaper editorials and at foreign affairs seminars for weeks, growing most recently acute around the scandal over the leaking of the identity of a C.I.A. agent, Valerie Plame.
In particular, the intensive foreign policy seminars I took with Condoleezza Rice, Anja Manuel, Alice Miller, Michael Armacost, and Thomas Fingar, pushed me to my intellectual limits, and forced me to develop razorsharp critical and analytical thinking, reading, and writing skills that I now use daily in my work.
Hoffman teaches an international and foreign legal research seminar.
Initiatives so far have included the public appearance of plaques and postcards bearing philosophical quotes and questions; hosting and inviting famous foreign philosophers to seminars; and something called a "multimedia philosophy park".
