Here’s a talk about a book I’m working on at the moment — a book on the philosophy of science and its implications for empirical research in IR. Delivered to the Ph.D. seminar at the School of International Service, American University, 4 April 2008. This is enhanced .m4a, so it has slides and you’ll need iTunes or QuickTime Player to view it.

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Here are my discussant comments from a panel on “the West” at the International Studies Association annual conference, 28 March 2008.

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Here’s a short presentation on new media and education I gave at the US Patent and Trade Office’s Global IP Academy, 30 January 2008.

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Here’s a talk I gave at the College of Southern Maryland’s first annual “Promoting Student Success” conference. In it I discuss the millennial generation and some of the classroom strategies that I think work well when teaching this group of students.

As usual, you’ll have to download this and put it in iTunes or QuickTime Player to view it — unless you’re already subscribed to the RSS feed, in which case the file automagically appears in your media player of choice . . .

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Discussant comments from an SGIR panel entitled “Constructivism and Historical Sociology,” 14 September 2007, in Turin, Italy.

The coughing in the first part of the recording is not mine.

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Here is my presentation from the SGIR panel entitled “Family Resemblances: European Social Theory and American Pragmatism,” 14 September 2007, in Turin, Italy.

I assembled this panel, and I think it turned out rather well.

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Here are my discussant comments from the SGIR conference panel entitled “Pragmatism and the Discipline,” 13 September 2007, in Turin, Italy.

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Presentation delivered 18 April 2007 at California State University-Stanislaus. Enhanced (AAC) file with slides.

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Here is the question-and-answer part of the Durkheim, Marx, Weber discussion from 29 March 2007. The audio is a little worse; I worked on it as much as I could, but there’s only so much you can do when people refuse to speak into the microphone…

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Here’s the first part of a discussion I participated in on 29 March about Durkheim, Marx, and Weber as social theorists who are of use for contemporary social scientists. I talked about Weber — go figure — while Lou Goodman talked about Durkheim and Randy Persaud talked about Marx. This is the audio file of our presentations; the ensuing q&a is in the next post.

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