SPONSORED TALKS & EVENTS

CGIRS regularly sponsors and supports public events at which UCSC faculty and invited scholars and experts present talks on a broad range of topics.

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2007-08

October 1, 2007: Ronnie Lipschutz, Politics, UCSC
"What is 'Sustainability'?"

October 8, 2007: Aurora Winslade, UCSC
"Sustainability Programs and Projects at UCSC"

October 15, 2007: Prof. Lyuba Zarsky, Monterey Institute of International Studies
"Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley"

October 22, 2007: Patrick Testoni, UCSC Facilities Manager
"Energy at UCSC"

November 1, 2007: Barbara Johnston
UC and the Bomb Class

November 5, 2007: Frank Zwart, UCSC Campus Architect
"Green Buildings"

November 7, 2007: Victor Gilinsky
"The US Nuclear Waste Program and Yucca Mountain"

November 19, 2007: Larry Pageler, UCSC
"Getting Around"

November 26, 2007: Prof. Bill Friedland, Community Studies, UCSC
"Food Systems"

November 28, 2007: S. David Freeman
"Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How"

December 3, 2007: Kate Cunningham, UCSC
Buying Green at UCSC

December 4, 2007: Alan Richards
"Today's Youth and the Global Crises of Justice and Nature"

January 28, 2008: Ronnie Lipschutz
"The Big Oil Picture"

February 4, 2008: Alan Richards
"The Global War on Terror"

February 11, 2008: Ronnie Lipschutz
"AFRICOM - The US Military in Africa"

February 25, 2008: Behrooz Ghamari - Tabrizi
"Manufacturing Crisis: The Bush Administration's Policy on Political Reform and Nuclear Technology in Iran"

March 3, 2008: Anthony Goldman
"Resource Competition in Africa"

March 10, 2008: Gilles Mohan
"Over a Barrel: China's oil diplomacy in Africa"

March 17, 2008: Ian Gary
"Oil and Human Rights"

March 31, 2008: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
"Oil and the Gulf of Guinea"

March 14-15, 2008: 14th Women of Color Film and Video Festival

April 23, 2008: Ninth Annual CJTC Spring Lecture, Meizhu Lui
"The Color of Wealth: Race, Economic Justice, and the Future of America"

May 14, 2008: Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
"Raising the Bottom of the Pyramid"

2006-07

October 2, 2006: Russ Flegal, Environmental Toxicology, UCSC
How much water is there, and where is it? (video)

October 5, 2006: Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University
Placing the Planet: Reflections on the Reception of the Human Environment

October 9, 2006: Bill Kocher, Director, SC Water Dept.
Where does your water come from?(video)

October 16, 2006: Aaron Wolf, Geography, Oregon State Univ. Water wars? Fact or Fiction(video)

October 23, 2006: Brent Haddad, Environmental Studies, UCSC. Who owns water, and why?(video)

October 26, 2006: Yehuda Shaul
Breaking the Silence

October 30, 2006: Ruth Langridge, Politics & Legal Studies, UCSC Water in California

November 2, 2006: Anna Badkhen, journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, "Big wars and small wars: Causes, consequences, and conditions on the ground"

November 2, 2006: Town Hall Forum
The Persian Gulf: Situations and Strategies

November 3, 2006: Renato Areiza, Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado
Resistencia en Conflicto: Peace Communities as Alternative Resistance in Times of War

November 6, 2006: Ken Conca, Political Science, Univ. of Maryland. Big Dams, Big Fights(video)

November 14, 2006: Driss Maghraoui
Gendering Urban Space in Colonial Casablanca

November 20, 2006 - Kea Gordon, UCSC Politics Department, "Unused Infrastructure, Unflowing Water: The Hollow Promises of South Africa's Service Delivery" (video)

Novemver 27, 2006: Priti Ramamurthy, Women’s Studies, Univ. of Washington. Women and water(video)

November 20, 2006: Michael Loik, Env. Studies, UCSC. Climate change & water resources(video)

January 8, 2007: Gildas Hamel, Classics & Language, UCSC. Ancient Peoples, Ancient Lands: Archeology and Demography between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea

January 17, 2007: Bruce Thompson, History, UCSC
Zionism: The Jewish National Movement

January 17, 2007: Juan Cole, History, University of Michigan. The Crisis of Iraq as America's Crisis

January 22, 2007: Laurie Brand, School of International Relations, UCLA. The Palestinian National Movement

January 29, 2007: Nadav Morag, University of Judaism, Los Angeles. Israeli Security and Politics Today

February 5, 2007: James Gelvin, History, UCLA
A Modern History of Southern Syria, Palestine and Israel

February 12,2007: Glenn Robinson, Naval Postgraduate School. Wars, Tactics, Strategies

February 21, 2007: Dr. Zeina Zaatari, Global Fund for Women. Lebanon and Hezbollah

February 26, 2007: Dr. Jan Selby, International Relations, Sussex University. The Political Economy of Palestine/Israel, 1880-present

March 5, 2007: Muhammad Muslih, CW Post College, Long Island University. Palestinian Politics Today

March 12, 2007: Panel discussion, Peace Possibilities? Prof. Ze'ev Maoz, Political Science, UC Davis and Prof. George Bisharat, UC Hastings School of Law

4/23/2007 Kum-Kum Bhavnani, UC Santa Barbara, Film, The Shape of Water

5/17-18/2007 Workshop, Genomics & justice: promises, perils, and paradoxes

5/21/2007 Rotimi Suberu, A Critical Assessment of Nigeria's 2007 Elections

5/22/2007 South Asia Colloquium

  • Patrick Heller, Brown University, Making Citizens from Below: The Prospects and Challenges of Decentralization in India
  • Rafiq Dossani, Stanford University, Why Indian and Chinese Entrepreneurs Succeed in Silicon Valley
  • Mark Headley, Matthews International Capital Management, Capitalism, Development and Sustainability in South Asia
    2005-06

2005-2006

June 7, 2006 - Film, "Slogans", part of the CGIRS Global Film Series -Socialism, Capitalism and Black Comedy: New Balkan Cinema

May 31, 2006 - Film, "The Oak", part of the CGIRS Global Film Series -Socialism, Capitalism and Black Comedy: New Balkan Cinema

May 31, 2006 - Gerald Barnett, Director of the Office for Management of Intellectual Property, UCSC, “University-Community Entrepreneuring.”(video)

May 22, 2006: Rick Diamond, Staff Scientist, Energy Performance of Buildings Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, “Sustainable Building Design.”(video)

May 10, 2006 - Film, Small World (Mali Svet), part of the CGIRS Global Film Series -Socialism, Capitalism and Black Comedy: New Balkan Cinema

May 8, 2006 - Ginger McNally, CEO, Santa Cruz Community Credit Union, “Business Plans and what a Credit Union can Support”(video)

May 3, 2006 - Film, "Summer in the Golden Valley", part of the CGIRS Global Film Series -Socialism, Capitalism and Black Comedy: New Balkan Cinema

May 1, 2006: Don Steiny, President, InfoPoint, Santa Cruz, and co-founder of the Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy, “Planning for a Santa Cruz Renaissance, Learning from Venture Capital.”(video)

April 24, 2006: Laura Strohm, Professor of International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, and Founder of the Sustainability Academy, “Educating for Sustainability”

April 19, 2006 - Film, "A State of Mind: A Rare Glimpse into the Culture of North Korea" with commentary by Scott Snyder, Pantech Fellow at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center during 2005-2006 and concurrent senior associate in the International Relations program of The Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS

April 17, 2006: John Isbister, Professor of Economics, UCSC, “Origins and Lessons of the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union"(video)

April 10, 2006: Michael Rotkin, SC City Council member and Lecturer in Community Studies, “The City of Santa Cruz and Sustainable Enterprise.”

March 13, 2006 - Speaker Shelley Hurt, "An Underground Arms Race: Biodefense Policy in Historical and Contemporary Perspective"

March 6, 2006 - Ole Wæver, i statskundskab, er professor i International Politik at the University of Copenhagen, currently on sabbatical in the Politics Department at UCSC
Religion and International Politics in a Time of War

February 27, 2006 - As`ad AbuKhalil, Professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and author of "The Angry Arab News Service," at http://angryarab.blogspot.com
The Views to the West, from the Middle East (video)

February 13, 2006 - Mia Bloom, Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati and author of Dying to Kill: the Allure of Suicide Terror)
Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror

February 6, 2006 - Mary Ann Tétreault, Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Trinity University, San Antonio, expert on Kuwait as well as the political economy of oil
The Art of War as Performance Art

February 30, 2006 - Gopal Balakrishnan, Editor at the New Left Review, currently a Rockefeller Fellow at the UCSC Center for Cultural Studies
Future Wars, Future Unknown(video)

January 23, 2006 - John Arquilla, Professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Iraq and the Bush Doctrine

January 9, 2006 - Ronnie Lipschutz: "Securing the Global Future: What? How? Whom?"

November 21, 2005 - Prof. Glenn Milhauser, Chemistry, UCSC
Mad Cows and Cannibals: Is the prion agent alive within us?

November 21, 2005 - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Informational meeting about IGCC's current and upcoming funding opportunities conducted by program assistant, Estella Juarez from UC San Diego.

November 14, 2005 - Prof. Alan Richards, Environmental Studies, UCSC
The Iraqi Quagmire and the Global Struggle against Extremist Violence

November 8, 2005: Pacific Rim Research Program. Informational meeting regarding the current 2006-07 CFP, with Pacfic Rim representative, Sandra Wulff.

November 7, 2005 - Dr. Ayesha Imam, former Chief of the Gender Culture and Human Rights Branch, Technical Services Division, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and 2003 Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellow at Columbia University
Women Activists in Muslim Communities and Countries

October 31, 2005 - Prof. Michael Dooley, Economics, UCSC
Asia and the Twin U.S. Deficits: What Lies Ahead?

October 30, 2005: Dr. Narendra Jadhav, "Untouchability and Social Change in Modern India: A Personal Memoir"

October 25, 2005 - Prof. Lisa Sloan, Earth Sciences, UCSC
Climates Past and Climate's Future? A California Perspective

October 17, 2005 - Prof. Ronnie Lipschutz, Politics, UCSC
Oil Eyes and Gas Gauges: How Much? How Long? Where?

October 10, 2005 - Prof. Ben Crow, Sociology, UCSC
The Technics of Everyday Access to Resources: Providing Water and Sanitation Services to the World’s Poor

October 3, 2005 - Prof. Melanie DuPuis, Sociology, UCSC
Local Values and Local Value: Problematizing The Local in Agro-Food Studies

2004-05

May 16-20, 2005: Distinguished Visitor in Global Studies in collaboration with the Green Enterprise Initiative. Brent Swallow, Principal Scientist and Theme Leader for Environmental Services World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Dr. Swallow will give several public lectures during his one-week stay at UCSC as CGIRS’ 2004-05 Distinguished Visitor in Global Studies. He will also hold office hours in order to consult one-on-one with interested faculty and students.

May 9, 2005: Dana Priest, Correspondent at the Washington Post. Ms. Priest covers the intelligence community for The Washington Post. She spent the previous eight years writing about the U.S. military. Her book about the military's expanding responsibility and influence, "THE MISSION: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military," published in Feb. 2003 by WW Norton & Co.

January 28, 2005: Charles Bright, University of Chicago
"The Global Condition in the Long Twentieth Century"

January 25, 2005: Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies. "The Permanent Energy Crisis: Oil, Dependency and War"

November 23, 2004: Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, "Speeding Up U.S. Decline, or the Iraq Fiasco: What Can We Possibly Do Now?"

November 19, 2004: Ken Pomeranz, Chancellor's Professor of History at UC Irvine and Director of the World History Workshop, a UC-MRU. "What is World History Good For?"

October 18, 2004: Hiroshi Fukurai, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz. "Borderless Education Through EAP: Experience in Japan As Director and Scholar"
2003-04

May 20, 2004: Michael Watts, Professor of Geography and Director of Institute of International Studies at UCB, "Imperial Oil" (video)

April 27-29 2004 - Distinguished Visitor in Global Studies
Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

April 27, 2004: "America Right and Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism"
April 28, 2004: "Repeating Old Mistakes: A Progress Report on the War Against Terrorism"

February 5, 2004: Alicia Dwyer, Filmmaker/Documentarian, "Holy Land: Common Ground"

January 28, 2004: Dialogue Through Culture Series: Ambassadors Of Very Good Will,
"A message of hope coming from the Middle East: Dialogue between Jews and Arabs from Israel through theater"

2003-04

Colloquium series: The Geopolitics of Empire

10/27: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Globalization or Empire? The Business of War"
10/28: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Neoliberal Empire"
11/24: Alan Richards, Edmund Burke III, and Paul Lubeck, UCSC, "America's Imperial Moment, Six Months Later"
4/28: Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Repeating Old Mistakes: A Progress Report on the War Against Terrorism"
5/20: Michael Watts, Professor of Geography and Director of Institute of International Studies at UCB, "Imperial Oil"

2003-04 Asia/Pacific Rim Speaker Series.
This lunchtime series highlights recent work of faculty and graduate students to promote conversations between disciplines and across campus.
10/30: Florence Mou, Pac Rim Research Program, UCOP
11/3: Grant writing Roundtable
2/4: Erik Kuhonta, Shorenstein Fellow (A/PARC), Stanford, "The Political Foundations of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia"
4/29 : Annette Clear, Politics, UCSC, "Indonesian Decentralization and Civil Society: Opportunity or Obstruction"
5/18 : KC Fung, Economics, UCSC, "Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the GATT and the WTO: Lessons for the Asia/Pacific Economies"

December 8, 2003: IGCC Campus Program Representative visit

November 6-7, 2003: David Wallace; "Sustainable Industrialization: How the Third World and Technological Innovation can help overcome Global Environmental Challenges"

September 19, 2003: International Health Program and the Public Health Institute IFPLP Training Session (Latin America)


2002-03

May 27-29, 2003: Ayesha Imam; Distinguished Visitor in Global Studies

2002-03 Asia/Pacific Rim Brown Bag Lunch Series
This lunchtime series highlights recent work of faculty and graduate students to promote conversations between disciplines and across campus.

2/24: KC Fung, Economics, UCSC, “China Accession to the WTO”

3/3: Hoyt Peckham, Biology, UCSC, Imperiled Pacific cultural connectors: community-based conservation of endangered sea turtles”

4/14: Nirvikar Singh, Economics, UCSC, Information Technology and Economic Development

5/5: KC Fung and Nancy Chen, UCSC, 'Globalization and SARS"

May 28-30 2003: International Health Program and the Public Health Institute IFPLP Training Session (Asia/Africa)

May 24-29, 2003: Distinguished Visitor of Global Studies
Ayesha Imam, Executive Director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights, Lagos, Nigeria and 2002 John Humphrey Freedom Award Recipient.

May 13, 2003: Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College
Author's reading from Memories of Our Future

April 22, 2003: Michael Klare, "A Day of Reflection"

March 3, 2003: Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia,
"A President’s Perspective: Africa, HIV/AIDS and the War on Iraq"

February 11, 2003: Paul Lubeck, UCSC, "Islamic Responses to War and Violence"

February 3, 2003: Jomo K.S., "Global Culture Wars or the New Imperialism"

January 30, 2003: Israeli Palestinian Conflict Video and Dialogue Night, "Crossing the Lines",

Nov. 14, 2002: Alan Richards & Stephen Zunes, "The Case Against War with Iraq"

Nov 18, 2002: Kebokile Zvogbo-Dengu, Visiting Research Scholar, Pitzer College, "History, Land, and Democracy in Zimbabwe: A Global Issue".

November 21, 2002: Foundation Forum Lecture Series
David A. Hamburg President Emeritus of Carnegie Corporation of New York, “Preventing Deadly Conflict”

September 21, 2002: International Health Program and the Public Health Institute IFPLP Training Session (Latin America)


2001-02

May 29-31 2002
International Health Program and the Public Health Institute IFPLP Training Session (Asia/Africa)
UC Santa Cruz, Bay Tree Conference Room D

2001-02 Colloquium Series: Globalization in Crisis? Hegemony, Islam and Governance

1/14; 4pm-6pm: Paul Lubeck and Ronnie Lipschutz
1/28; 3pm-5pm: Joel Beinen
2/11; 3pm-5pm: Richard Falk
2/25; 4pm-6pm: Princeton Lyman
3/4; 3pm-5pm: Farish Noor
3/11; 3pm-5pm: Hakan Yavuz

October 2001, International Networks (rountable discussion)

September 12-13, 2001, International Health Program and the Public Health Institute IFPLP Training Session (Latin America)
UC Santa Cruz, Baskin School of Engineering, room 156.