@UIUC: Transnational Seminars Fall Semester (Fridays @ 3 pm)

TRANSNATIONAL SEMINARS

SOCIOLOGY ● GEOGRAPHY ● CENTER GLOBAL STUDIES ● WOMEN AND GENDER IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ● GLOBAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION ● URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING




Every other Friday 3 pm (with variations)
Venue: Lincoln Hall 336 (Alt: Davenport 219)

Sept 7 Sociology Centennial

Sept 21
David Hess, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Local First...But What Next? Globalization, regional development, and the localist movement
Respondent: Diana Mincyte, Advertising

Sept 28
Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno
Dynamics of globalization and its impact on society in the 21st century
Respondent: Brian Dill, Sociology

Oct 12
Olga Sezneva, University of Chicago
Practicing memory and nostalgia
Michael Peters, Education

Oct 26
Davenport 219
Euan Hague, DePaul University
The Jefferson Davis Highway: A Confederate memorial landscape in Washington state
Respondent: David Wilson, Geography

Nov 9
Colin Flint, UIUC Geography
Transnationalism and just war: theoretical problems and soldier's words
Respondent: Ellen Moodie, Anthropology

Nov 30
Davenport 219
Roger Keil, York University, Geography
Old laws, new insights: urban research and action in the age of terror
Respondent: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Sociology

Dec 14
William Brustein, UIUC, Associate Provost International Affairs
The socialism of fools: The leftist origins of modern anti-Semitism
Respondent: Emanuel Rota, Italian Studies

For info contact fall series coordinator Jan Nederveen Pieterse