International Studies Institute

Fall 2008 Lecture Series on Global Instability

 

October 20-23, 2008

UNM Campus, Albuquerque

 

A Week of Lectures Free and Open to the Public.

 

 

List of Lectures and Speakers

(To be announced in September.)

 

For more information, contact the ISI Director, Professor Christine Sauer, at sauer@unm.edu.

 

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Selected Past Events sponsored by European Studies & The International Studies Institute

 

 

  • Fall 2007 ISI Lecture Series: "Environment & Sustainability in a Global Context." A week of lectures free and open to the public, September 11, 13, 17 & 19, 2007.

 

The Honorable Suedeen G. Kelly, Commissioner, United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and former UNM Law Professor, and other distinguished speakers from disciplines as diverse as geography, international relations, history, biology, earth and planetary sciences, and American studies examine how sustainability -- the balance between environmental protection, economic vitality, and social responsibility -- operates across different locations and within different environmental, economic, social, cultural, technological and political contexts throughout the world.

 

Tuesday, September 11

4 pm    "The Heat is On: Drivers, Consequences, and Salvation from Global Change," Bruce Milne, Professor, Department of Biology and Director of UNM's Environment and Sustainability Program

7 pm    "Global Warming and the International Community," David Gutzler, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UNM

Thursday, September 13

4 pm    "Lady Bird Johnson's Wildflower Research Center: A Case Study in the Synergies Between Local and Global Environmentalism," Vera Norwood, Professor, Department of American Studies, UNM

7 pm    "Environment and Sustainability," Suedeen G. Kelly, Commissioner, United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Monday, September 17

4 pm    "Environmental Policies and their Effects on the Tibetan Plateau," Emily T. Yeh, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder

7 pm    "Soviet and Post-Soviet Issues in Environment and Sustainability," Douglas Weiner, Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona

Wednesday, September 19

4 pm    "Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism and Politics," Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor, Department of Political Science, UNM

7 pm    "Economic Globalization and the Environment: Compatible or Colliding?" Jennifer Clapp, CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada

 

  • Fall 2006 ISI Lecture Series: "Globalization." A week of lectures free and open to the public, September 11-14, 2006.

 

  • “Hitler's Games: Politics and Race in the 1936 German Olympics”, Dr. David Clay Large, Montana State University, Monday, April 24, 2006.  Co-sponsored by: History, Political Science, and African American Studies.

 

The 1936 Olympic Games were the first Olympics to take place in a dictatorship – and indeed, in a nation whose Nazi government had openly professed contempt for many of the ideals the modern Olympic claimed to champion.  There was therefore considerable opposition around the world to holding the Games in the Nazi Reich.  The speaker will discuss the international boycott movement mounted against "Hitler's Games," the German measures to defeat the boycott and keep the Games in the Reich, the IOC's stance on the issue of Germany's suitability as host, and the crucial role of race in the athletic competitions and in the international commentary on the impressive victories of "non-Aryan" athletes (including, of course, the great Jesse Owens).

 

  • “Steadfastly doing their duty’: Female Hierarchs in the Italian Fascist Party, 1920-1943”, Dr. Perry Willson, Wednesday, 22 March, 2006.

 

Dr. Willson is Senior Lecturer in Italian History at the University of Edinburgh.  Her publications include:  The Clockwork Factory:  Women and Work in Fascist Italy (OUP, 1993),  Peasant Women and Politics in Fascist Italy:  The Massaie Rurali (Routledge, 2002), and (ed.)  Gender, Family and Sexuality:  The Private Sphere in Italy, 1860-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).  A founding  member of the Editorial Collective of the journal, Gender and History, she currently serves on the Editorial Board of Modern Italy, and is also the Vice-Convenor of Women’s History Scotland.

 

  • Fall 2005 ISI Lecture Series: "Human Rights in a Global Context." A week of lectures free and open to the public, September 12-15, 2005.

 

Monday, September 12

4:00 pm.  “China’s Information Revolution and its Democratic Future.”  Xiao Qiang, Director of the China Internet Project, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.

7:00 pm.  “Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy.”  Julie Mertus, Associate Professor, Division of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, American University.

Tuesday, September 13

5:00 pm.  “Dangerous Transitions: How Extremists Used Mass Murder to Prevent Compromise in El Salvador and Rwanda.”  William Stanley, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico.

7:30 pm.  “Priming the Pump: First Steps in the Escalation of Political Violence.”  Carole Nagengast, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

Wednesday, September 14

4:00 pm.  “Remembering the Golden Rule: Humane Treatment in the War on Terror.”  Jennifer Moore, Professor of Law and Director of Peace Studies, School of Law, University of New Mexico.

Thursday, September 15

5:00 pm.  “The Complicated Story of Business and Human Rights.”  Harry Van Buren III, Assistant Professor, Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico.

7:30 pm.  “Human Rights and the Quest for Human Integrity.”  Steven Poe, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Texas. 

 

Lecture Series Co-Sponsors (as of 9/8/05):  College of Arts and Sciences, Office of International Programs and Studies, University Honors Program, Feminist Research Institute, Latin American and Iberian Institute, African American Studies, Medieval Studies, Peace Studies, Religious Studies, Departments of Anthropology, Economics, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Political Science, and Sociology.

 

  • Fall 2004 ISI Lecture Series: "Islam and Europe." A week of lectures free and open to the public, September 13-16, 2004.