Global Studies Guest Speakers
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Fall 2008
October
1
7pm
Foellinger Auditorium
View from the Street: Attitudes toward Politics and Religion among Ordinary Citizens in the Arab World
Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Vice Provost for International Affairs and Director of the International Institute
October
29
7:30pm
Smith Hall Auditorium
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism in Latin America
Columnist for the New York Times
Fall 2007
October
3
Activism and the Call of Conscience
Co-Founder of Voices in Wilderness;
Co-Coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence
October
31
Sacred Terror - Theirs and Ours
Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan;
Chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization which publishes books in Urdu on women's rights, education, environmental issues, philosophy, and modern thought
November
14
Rich World, Poor Women
Presentation of an episode of the documentary series, "NOW with Bill Moyers,"
followed by faculty-moderated discussion. The documentary examines the impact
of market liberalization on the situation of women in Thailand and Senegal.
For more information, see http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/womenlabor.html
Fall 2006
September
20
Globalization, Inequiality, and Democracy
Indian journalist
October
4
US-Arab Relations
October
18
U.S. Immigration Policy: Challenges for the 21st Century
Executive Director,
Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
November
8
Children and War
Deputy Field Office Director for Save the Children/U.S. in Darfur, Sudan.
November
15
Globalization from Below
Ecuadoran Indigenous Leader and Human Rights Activist
Spring 2006
February
22
Multinationals and Globalization
Fred Gottheil
Professor of Economics, University of Illinois.
March
29
Women in the Islamic World
Lynn Welchman
Senior Lecturer, Law Department, School of Oriental and African Studies.
April
5
Global Organized Crime and the Fall of Communism
Misha Glenny
Writer and Public IntellectualJournalist, writer, and historian of the Balkans
and of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
April
19
Energy and Global Environmental Change
John McNeill
Professor of History, Georgetown University
Fall 2005
September
21
Intolerance
Rajmohan Gandhi
Director, Global Crossroads, and Visiting Professor,
Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UIUC
October
5
World Musics - The Lion Sleeps Under Many Covers: Mbube, Wimoweh, and the Transnational Circulation of African Popular Music
Chris Waterman
Dean of School of the Arts and Architecture,
UCLA
October
19
Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
Stephen Yafa
Writer and Public Intellectual
November
2
Is Central Asia the New Middle East?
Ted Rall
Journalist, columnist and cartoonist
Universal Press Syndicate
November
9
Women and War
Evelyne Accad
Scholar, author, musician and Professor Emertia of French,
University of Illinois
Spring 2005
January
31
Other Worldy and This-worldy Piety and the Islamic Revival
Professor of the History of South Asia, Royal Holloway, University of London
February
17
Origins of a Networked World
Panel Discussion
February
23
11¢ Cotton: Local-Global Tensions in World Agriculture
Thomas Bassett
This lecture will take place on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center at 4:30 PM.
Fall 2004
September
8
World Musics
Timothy Brennan
University of Minnessota Professor of Comparative Literature
September
29
Intolerance
Rajmohan Gandhi
Grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi
October
20
Fundamentalisms
Tariq Ali
London-based public intellectual
October
27
Globalization Limits
Dani Rodrik
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
November
17
Human Rights
James Ross
Senior Lawyer,
Human Rights Watch
Ira Carmen
Department of Political Science, UIUC
Stephen Hartnett
Moderator
Department of Speech Communication, UIUC