TCNJ News
For Immediate Release
March 30, 2005
International Studies Department sponsors Symposium on Globalization
EWING, NJ . For a two-week stretch starting Wednesday, March 30 and running through Tuesday, April 12, the International Studies Department at The College of New Jersey will be sponsoring the Fair Globalization Symposium. The symposium is a series of music and poetry performances, lectures, roundtables and student debates concerning globalization, economic justice, citizen action, and localities and identities.
The first event on Wednesday, March 30 features Leeza Ahmady, an art curator specializing in Asian culture and now a graduate student at New York City 's Pratt Institute researching the promotion of the arts in Central Asia. Ahmady's lecture is titled, "Unveiling Contemporary Art in Central Asia and the Central Asian Diaspora." The event is from 12 to 2 p.m. in Science Complex room P117.
More Symposium events are as follows:
Thursday, March 31
Science Complex P101, 7 to 9 p.m.
-Ban Wang, Rutgers University . "Where Have All the Villages Gone?: Landscapes of Home and Memory."
-Pablo Vila, Temple University . "Ethnographic Accounts of Hybrids and Border Crossers in Border Studies."
-Alexie Tcheuyap, The University of Calgary . "Politics and Brain Waste: Emigration and Shifting Identities in African Cinema."
Monday, April 4
Forcina 132, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
-Thea Lee, Chief International Economist ALF-CIO. "Globalization as if Workers Mattered: Reforming the Rules of the Global Economy."
Tuesday, April 5
Business Building Basement Lounge, 5 to 7 p.m.
-Huang Xiang, Chinese Poet
-Yi Yang, Guzheng Player
-Zohra Saed, Afghan-American Poet
-Mansour Ajami, Lebanese Oud Poet
Wednesday, April 6
Science Complex P101, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
-Spike Peterson, The University of Arizona . "Rethinking Globalization: Uneven Effects, Underlying Issues, and Urgent Concerns."
Thursday, April 7
Social Science 228, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
-Student Workshop: "United for a Fair Economy"
Tuesday, April 12
Science Complex P101 7 to 9 p.m.
-Alice Tepper Marlin, president of Social Accountability International. "Corporate Codes: Are They Making a Difference?"
About The College of New Jersey
TCNJ currently is ranked as one of the 75 "Most Competitive" schools in the nation by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, is rated the No. 1 public institution in the northern region of the country by U.S. News & World Report, and is one of Kiplinger's Personal Finance's top educational values in the country. In 2006, the College joined an elite group of institutions when it was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Fewer than 10 percent of the nation's colleges and universities share this honor.
