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Polson Memorial Lecturers (2001-2005)

2005
Friday, October 28, 2005, 3 pm, B45 Warren Hall, lecture and panel discussion
"The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Who Calls the Shots?"

Gary Gereffi, Department of Sociology, Duke University

Gary Gereffi's research interests deal with social and environmental certification in global industries, the competitive strategies of global firms, and industrial upgrading in East Asia and Latin America. presentation

2004
Friday, October 1, 2004, 3 pm, Alice Statler Auditorium
"After Developmentalism and Globalization, What?"

Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University (keynote speaker at Development Challenges for the 21st Century conference,
October 1-2, 2004) paper

2003 Friday, October 3, 2003, 3:00-5:30 pm, Memorial Room in Willard Straight Hall, lecture and panel discussion
"Public Sociology in a Global Context"

Michael Burawoy, Sociology, University of California at Berkeley and president elect of the American Sociological Association
Introduction by David L. Brown

2002
Friday, November 1, 2002, 3 pm, Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, lecture and panel discussion
"Globalizing Markets? Globalizing Terror? or Globalizing Democracy?"

Benjamin Barber, author of Strong Democracy, Jihad vs McWorld, and more than a dozen other books; Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society, University of Maryland, and a principal of The Democracy Collective in New York City.

2001
Friday, September 21, 2001, 2:00 pm, Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall
"Dealing with Globalization: Counter-Movements for Care and Community in a Market-Driven World"
Peter Evans, Sociology, UC Berkeley

"Food and Hunger: Learning to See the Unexpected"
Frances Moore Lappe, principal of Small Planet Project and author of Hope's Edge: The New Diet for a Small Planet

A conference on "Global Developments in the 21st Century" was held on Saturday, September 22, 2001, with presentations by Development Sociology alumni.