Prisms of Globalization, June 28-30, 2004
The Center for Global Studies and Illinois CIBER collaborated on the Center's first symposium, Prisms of Globalization. The symposium attracted 15 educators from universities, community colleges and technical schools from around the country. From June 28-30 participants engaged in discussion and debate on contrasting and contending conceptual maps of an emerging and expanding world society with discussions led by esteemed UIUC faculty. The invited speakers led lively discussion and debate on global issues in the disciplines of history, communications, economics, political science, and library information science.
For a complete description of the Prisms program, including presenter biographies, please visit www.ciber.uiuc.edu/prism.
Selected Presentations and Papers from the Symposium
The Governance of the Global Society
Session 1: Webs of International Organization Paul Diehl, Professor of Political Science, addressed the explosive growth of intergovernmental and non-governmental impacting on nation-state and civil international life and their impact on the rise of a global society.
[Diehl Power Point Slides]Session 2 Edward A.Kolodziej, Director of Center for Global Studies, advanced a theory of global governance as the response of the world diverse and divided populations to the imperatives of order, welfare, and legitimacy, prerequisites of the governance of human societies – and now a global society.
Economic Forces in the Global Society
Session 3 Walter McMahon, Professor of Economics, outlines the problems confronting the developing world in launching programs of sustained economic growth and the role of education in this process.
[McMahon Power Point Slides] [Full-Text of Paper]