Inside Iowa State
October 20, 2000
World institute looks at trade, debt themes
by Linda Charles
A scientist who recently named the
Ames power plant as a top dioxin polluter, a Russian Internet
writer and the former president of Zero Population Growth are
among speakers on campus for the Institute on World Affairs
series.
This year's theme -- "Globalization: Trade, Debt and Civil Disorder" -- will be examined during the institute, which begins next week and continues into spring semester.
Zillah Eisenstein, professor of politics at Ithaca College, New York, starts things off with a discussion on families, nations and globalization. Her Oct. 24 talk also is part of Women's Week.
Institute activities during the first half of November include talks by:
- Journalist Naomi Klein and Nike employee Simon Prestridge ("Labor in Developing Countries and Multinational Corporations: What's Fair") (Murray Bacon Center for Business and Ethics event).
- Dianne Dillon-Ridgley ("Global Solidarity"), a member of President Bill Clinton's U.S. Council on Sustainable Development and former president of Zero Population Growth.
- Sergei Kuznetsov ("History and Humanitarian Perspectives on the Russian Internet"), a lecturer at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow and a contributing editor to newspapers and magazines on the Internet
- Barry Commoner ("Aspects of International Environmental Problems"), lead researcher for a team that recently issued a report naming the Ames power plant as one of the top 10 dioxin emitters detected in Northern Canada.
- "Social Conflict, Trade Disputes, and Genetically Modified Organisms Revisited," a panel discussion by Iowa State faculty and administrators.
- "The Human Part of Globalization: Immigrants and Iowa's Economic Development," a panel discussion with representatives of the governor's office and Iowa diversity and immigrant projects.
Institute On World Affairs 2000
"Trade, Debt and Civil Disorder"
Memorial Union, 4-9963, free
Oct. 24-Nov. 14
Tuesday, October 24
- 8 p.m., Lecture, "Families, Nations and Globalization," Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca College, Sun Room.
- 8 p.m., Lecture, "Labor in Developing Countries and Multinational Corporations: What's Fair," Naomi Klein, journalist, and Simon Prestridge, Nike department of labor practices, Sun Room.
- Noon, Lecture, "Global Solidarity," Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development International Task Force, Sun Room.
- Noon, Lecture, "The Human Part of Globalization: Immigrants and Iowa's Economic Development," David Oman, chair of the Iowa 2010 Committee; Sandra Charvat Burke, ISU sociology; and Sandra Sanchez, American Friends Service Committee's Immigrant Rights Project, Des Moines, Pioneer Room.
- Noon, Lecture, "Social Conflict, Trade Disputes and Genetically Modified Organisms," Richard Ross, ISU College of Agriculture; John Obrycki, ISU entomology; Charlotte Bronson, ISU plant pathology; Lorna Michael Butler, Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture; Dermot Hayes, ISU economics; Colin Scanes (moderator), Plant Sciences Institute, Pioneer Room.
- Noon, Lecture, "History and Humanitarian Perspectives on the Russian Internet (RuNet)," Sergei Kuznetsov, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Pioneer Room.
- 8 p.m., Lecture, "Aspects of International Environmental Problems," Barry Commoner, North American Commission for Environ-mental Cooperation, Sun Room.
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