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Conferences and Workshops

Prisms of Globalization Archives

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Prisms of Globalization Seminars present contending conceptual views of globalization from across disciplines at UIUC. Each seminar features a guest lecturer who addresses issues of globalization from the perspective of his/her discipline.

AY 2007-2008 Seminar Archive

September 12, 2007
The Future of Energy Use in the US and the World
Professor David N Ruzic, Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, UIUC

October 10, 2007
Global energy Trends: The Supply/Demand, the Technology and the Policy Dimensions
Professor George Gross, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, UIUC

November 14, 2007
Smart Grid: Key to a Sustainable Energy Infrastructure
Deepak Divan, Director, Intelligent Power Infrastructure Consortium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta


January 30, 2008
Software as Governance
Professor Jay Kesan, Agricultural and Consumer Economics,UIUC

February 27, 2008

March 26, 2008
Managing Startups
Georges Harik, Google Inc.

AY 2006-2007 Seminar Archive

September 12, 2006
Globalization, Forest Trends and Received Ideas: Rethinking Development and Conservation in the 21st Century
Susanna Bettina Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, Department of Urban Planning

October 10, 2006
Robert McKim, Director of Program for the Study of Religion

November 11, 2006
Chairman Mao, the Great Leap Forward and the Deforestation Ecological Disaster in the South China Karst
Peter Huntoon, Professor, Dept of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, retired

January 23, 2007
Professor Douglas Kibbee, Dept. of French, UIUC

Mar 8, 2007
Baladas Ghoshal

March 15, 2007
Professor Robert Thompson, Agricultural and Consumer Economics, UIUC

AY 2005-2006 Seminar Archive

September 13, 2005
Uriel Kitron, Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology and Co-Director of the Center For Zoonoses Research at UIUC

October 18, 2005
Prof. Val Beasley, Veterinary Biosciences, UIUC

December 2, 2005
Manisha Desai, Sociology and WGGP, UIUC

February 7, 2006
Paulo Albuquerque, Visiting Professor, College of Law, UIUC

March 7, 2006
Robert Rich, Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, UIUC
101 ISB, 3:30-5:00pm

April 25, 2006
Patrick Keenan, College of Law, UIUC
ACDIS Conference Room, Armory Room 358, 3:30-5:00pm

AY 2004-2005 Seminar Archive

October 13, 2004
Society and Ethics: Rethinking Tradition in the Global Age: Torture and the Ambit of the Competence of the European Court of Human Rights
Valerie Hoffman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UIUC

November 17, 2004
Edward Kolodziej, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at UIUC

February 9, 2005
Streaming Video of "Does Empire Matter?"
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Professor of Sociology at UIUC

March 1, 2005
Fazal Rizvi, Professor of Education Policy Studies in the College of Education at UIUC

April 5, 2005
Noshir S. Contractor, Professor of Speech Communication and Psychology at UIUC

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