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EVENTS & OUTREACH
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AFFILIATED FUNDING PROGRAMS
institute on global conflict & cooperation
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WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES

As a central element in its research and outreach activities, CGIRS sponsors, supports, and helps to organize a range of workshops and conferences, including those of other UCSC research centers and faculty working groups. Some of these meetings are associated with CGIRS projects, while other are address issues such as global food systems, genomes and justice, and innovation in Asia. CGIRS also sponsors and cosponsors talks by visiting speakers and research fellows. Among the workshops and conferences in which CGIRS has been involved are the following:

• "Race and Food" (January 31 - February 2, 2008)
• “The Global IT Industry: The Future of China and India” (May 30, 2003)
• "Global Sourcing and Regions of Innovation" (April 30, 2004)
• White Food: Race and the Politics of Purity (Oct. 17, 2005)
• “Transforming Asia in the 21st Century: The Political Economy of Asian Integration” (March 10, 2006)
• Globalization, State Capacity and Islamic Movements (Washington, DC, March 16-19. 2007)
• Genomics & Justice: Promises, Perils, and Paradoxes (May 17-18, 2007)
• The Petro-Politics of Energy Security: Alternative Development and Security Strategies for the Gulf of Guinea (Washington, DC, June 8-9, 2007)
• Mapping Global Inequalities: Beyond Income Inequality (UCSC, Dec. 13-14, 2007)
• Rough Seas for Global Capital Markets: Implications for India, China and the US (November 9, 2007)