10th Year Anniversary Keynote Speaker: |
Arjun Appadurai |
Click here to listen to Appadurai's April 6th, 2006 talk.
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What Goes Around Comes Around:
Modernization Theory in a Postnational World
Arjun Appadurai serves as Provost and Senior
Vice President for Academic Affairs at New School University
in New York City, where he also holds a Distinguished Professorship
as the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences. Until recently,
Arjun Appadurai was the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of
International Studies, a Professor of Anthropology, and Director
of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University.
Professor Appadurai is an Indian citizen and a legal resident
of the United States.
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2006
Conferences & Workshops: |
A series of international conferences sponsored, or co-sponsored
by the International Institute's programs and research
circles. |
March 6, 2006
Political Ecologies of Knowledge, Science, and Technology
March 20-24, 2006
Central Asian Music Residency Project: Kyrgyz Musicians
March
23 & 24, 2006
African Diaspora and Globalization
March 24, 2006
Chernobyl Here and Now: Global Engagement, Local Encounters [Click here for audio from the conference.]
March 24, 2006
2nd International Conference on Islam: "Dialogue
and Conflict: Islam in a Globalized World"
March 26, 2006
Change in the Middle East
March 31, 2006
Humanitarian Intervention After 9/11
April
7, 2006
Global Biological Threats Symposium
April 21, 2006
Re-Orienting Global Communication: India and China Beyond Borders
April 22, 2006
Global Simulation Workshop
April 24-25, 2006
Public Health, Comparative Health Policy and Law
in the European Union: A Transatlantic Dialogue
April 27-29, 2006
WIOC Title VI and Fulbright-Hays National Outreach Conference
April 28-29
Current Account sustainability in Major Advanced Economics
June 27-28
Globalization, Religion, and the Pursuit of Global Ethics Workshop
October 7-10
EcoHealth ONE: Forging Collaboration Between Health and Ecology |
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A series of talks in March
and April, 2006
Download a pdf flier for the colloquium here.
March 6, 11:15 am, The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
Global-Local Environments, Local-Global Knowledge
Peter Brosius (University of Georgia), Tim
Forsyth (London School
of Economics), Nancy Peluso (UC-Berkeley), Tori
Jennings (UW-Madison)
March
23, 4:30pm, The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
African Diaspora and Globalization
Michael Gomez, keynote address at African Diaspora Studies and
the Disciplines Conference, The Pyle Center
March 30, 4pm, L140 Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave.
Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Identity
John Tomlinson,
Global Media and Democracy in Asia, Chazen Museum of Art
April 7, 9am-3pm, 1100 Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave
Global Biological Threats Symposium
Eric Noji (Senior Policy Advisor for Heath & National
Security)
April 20, 4:00 pm, 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr.
Global Governance, Global Politics, Global
Democracy?
Charles Sabel, Columbia University
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