Conferences

2001

"Global Developments in the 21st Century," September 21-22, 2001 (Official dedication of Polson Institute; Peter Evans, UC-Berkeley, "Dealing with Globalization: Counter-movements for Care and Community in a Market-Driven World" and Frances Moore Lappé, Small Planet Project, "Food and Hunger: Learning to See the Unexpected")

"Moving Targets: Displacement, Impoverishment and Development," November 9-10, 2001 (Displacement RWG)

2002

"Urbanization and Environment in Brazil: from Sao Paulo to Amazonia," May 13-15, 2002, panel discussion May 14, 2002. International workshop of American and Brazilian scholars to initiate collaboration (Population, Development and Environment RWG)

2003

"Social Movements and Social Transformation: New Approaches," March 28-29, 2003 (Advanced Graduate Student Workshop hosted by Social Movements RWG)

"Trade Rules—Another Food System is Possible: Sovereignty, Sustainability and Security," November 6-8, 2003 and "Global Implications of the WTO's Failed Cancun Ministerial," roundtable debate, November 6, 2003 (International Agriculture and Trade Policy Network)

2004

"Development Challenges for the 21st Century," October 1-2, 2004. Keynote speaker: Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, "After Developmentalism and Globalization, What?" (Dept of Development Sociology, Polson Institute, Latin American Studies Program)