Princeton Area Alumni Association

Student Liaison

This committee creates programs that permit undergraduate and graduate students to have enduring contact with alumni... (More)

We have moved! Please go to our new site on tigernet, and update your bookmarks!

Comment on Post

0 (max 2000)
PAAA

First Friday Lunch - Doyle K. Hodges, PhD Student WWS

Join us for First Fridays, a monthly recurring event for undergraduate and graduate Princeton alumni, graduate students, and parents.  On the first Friday of each month, area alumni and their guests will meet to enjoy a prix fixe luncheon at the Nassau Club in downtown Princeton.  As a special bonus for PA3, a Princeton University PhD candidate will present his/her work to the group in this informal setting.  Topics vary monthly and are always interesting!  Have a look at our impressive roster of previous luncheons.

On October 3rd, we will be joined by Doyle K. Hodges, a PhD Student at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  Doyle is interested in exploring the connection between democratic civil-military relations and compliance with the laws and norms of war.  Doyle is Graduate Fellow at the Center for International Security Studies and Graduate Associate at the Liechtenstein Institute for Self-Determination. 

Specially priced at $25/person (or $30 if you choose not to pay 
PA3's annual dues), lunch includes three courses, a complementary beverage (wine, beer, soft drink) and coffee/tea. Pre-registration is preferred.

>> Looking forward to seeing you...in your orange and black! <<

Date: Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Time: 12 noon - 2 pm
Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ
Nassau Club membership is not necessary to attend this event.
Dress is business casual.

Lunch Reservation
Related Events

First Friday Lunch ( Friday, October 3, 2014 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM )

Doyle K. Hodges, Security Studies, PhD Student Woodrow Wilson School

Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St, Princeton
Cost: $25 dues-paying members $30 others
Organized by: PA3

Posted by lydia over 9 years ago.

More

ASC Volunteers Needed

ASC - Alumni Schoos Committee is looking for a few good volunteers.

IF INTERVIEWING FUTURE TIGERS IS SOMETHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO DO 

but haven't known how to get involved, here is your chance.  

Send an email to Mickey Faigen '73 (mickster7@aol.com) with a note of your interest and your contact info.  He will be in touch to get you started.  The season begins shortly, so sign up now.  That's it.  Not hard, very rewarding and a great way to help Old Nassau. 

Posted by Princeton AAA over 9 years ago.

More

RECAP First Friday Lunch - February 2014

Friederike Funk, PhD Candidate in Psychology, discusses the Social Psychology of Punishment

Fourth year psychology Ph.D. candidate Friederike Funk discussed her research for those attending the second First Friday Luncheon of 2014.

A social psychologist, Ms. Funk is especially interested in various forms of punishment for criminal and other forms of deviant behavior.

          Ms. Funk's dissertation addresses the question of whether we punish deviate behavior to promote desirable behavioral changes. Punishment does not provide satisfaction either for people who have suffered from the actions of deviants or who are observers of deviances, unless punish results in behavioral change.        

          In a different line of research, Ms. Funk has used such techniques as computer simulations and the application of makeup to change persons' appearances to test the effects of physical characteristics. The presence or absence of tattoos is a striking example of how appearance can lead to bias.

          Ms. Funk has found that criminal appearance in general increases the likelihood of guilty verdicts.  Imposing punishment or even assessing its appropriateness may also depend upon a lack of remorse displayed by deviants. This is a potential source of legal bias, as lack of remorse can also be a sign of true innocence, of course. Falsely accused deviants cannot demonstrate remorse when they have nothing to remorseful about.

          Ms. Funk also described attitudes toward deviants in Canada, Germany, and the United States. Generally, people in the United States seemed to be "harsh" in the sense that they favored severe punishments for various crimes, while Canadians and Germans were more "lenient" in their approach. Their attitudinal differences do not really affect the penalties given to criminals in the three countries, however.         

          If you would like to read more about Ms. Funk’s research, these are the articles that deal with some of the findings she discussed (available online):

Funk, F. & McGeer, V., & Gollwitzer, M. (in press). Get the message: Punishment is satisfying if the transgressor responds to its communicative intent. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Funk, F. & Todorov, A. (2013). Criminal stereotypes in the courtroom: Facial tattoos affect guilt and punishment differently. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 19(4), 466-478.

Kugler, M. B., Funk, F., Braun, J., Gollwitzer, M., Kay, A., & Darley, J. M. (2013). Differences in punitiveness across three cultures: A test of American Exceptionalism in justice attitudes. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 103(4), 1071-1114.

 

           

 


Posted by lydia over 9 years ago.

More

RECAP First Friday Lunch - March 2014

                            Nimisha Barton discusses Gender and Immigration in early 20th Century France at First Friday Lunch at the Nassau Club

 

          Nimisha Barton, a finishing graduate student in the history department discussed her study of gender and immigration in France between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the years 1914 to 1940, at the Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey, on March 7, 2014.

          Ms. Barton is from southern California. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley in 2006.

          During the period that she researched, France was the principal country receiving immigrants in Europe. The French were highly favorable to immigrants, especially immigrant women. Although a country with continuing high rates of immigration, the fact was not admitted publicly until the 1980s.

          Armenians were a significant immigrant group after World War I, because of war, the Turkish genocide, and economic problems. Jews fled pogroms in Eastern Europe. In addition, general upheaval in Europe following the Great War set Italians, Spaniards, Romanians, Russians and many others in motion across the continent during the interwar period.

          Several factors created favorable attitudes toward immigrants. France continued to face a decreasing birth rate, a challenge that had been recognized for many decades, and the consequent need for more workers, and the French continued to worry about the higher birth rates enjoyed by what were then their traditional enemies, the Germans. The relatively high birth rates for immigrants made them all the more desirable to the French. Indeed, their high birth rates were regarded as appropriate models for native French families.

          France was an early welfare state, and, thus state assistance importantly supplemented private efforts to aid immigrants. Immigrant men were well served by the system of social services, but there were even greater benefits for women immigrants. Support, such as family allowances and children’s summer camps, were among the entitlements. There was a strong support network, especially in Paris. Social workers and their organizations had a high commitment to helping immigrants.

           Although France became a multi-cultural nation, the native French tended to resist multiculturalism as a concept. Nevertheless, notwithstanding the official French stance toward their immigrants, many of them lived what might be termed "hyphenated" lives. What seems to have occurred was acculturation rather than total assimilation.

          As the depression deepened during the 1930s, immigrants became more visible to the French. What might be viewed as "disciplinary paternalism" evolved to force unmarried male immigrants into desired social patterns rather than allowing them to live rootless existences as wanderers.

          By the 1950s and 1960s immigrants came to be regarded as burdens for the French social services structure. Muslim immigrant women came to be viewed as barriers to assimilation, in part because of their dress that identifies them as immigrants. This view is not entirely new. At one time, Jewish immigrant women were noticed, owing to their often shabby clothing.

                     Immigrant Muslim women are now often regarded as barriers to assimilation for their families and themselves. But Nimisha Barton’s research suggests that this owes more to a shift in environmental factors – namely the end to fears of depopulation and the rise of fears of global overpopulation – as well as postcolonial legacies stemming from French entanglements in Algeria. If researchers were to study the networks of community and systems of state assistance that continue to play an important role in the lives of immigrant women and families, they may well uncover a more supportive story than that which is traditionally told.


Posted by lydia over 9 years ago.

More

Opportunities for Alumni to Engage with Students this Fall


Posted by Princeton AAA over 9 years ago.

More