Seminars

Polson Institute seminars, seminars in related programs, or co-sponsored events:

ACCUMULATING INSECURITY SECURING ACCUMULATION: APPREHENDING EVERYDAY LIFE
Friday, April 17, 9am-9pm, Saturday, April 18, 9am-9pm and Sunday, April 19, 9-1pm
423 ILR Conference Center

VISIBLE WARNINGS: THE FOOD CRISIS IN PERSPECTIVE
Sponsored by the Polson Institute for Global Development, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Development, the Institute for Social Sciences, and the Department of Development Sociology

APRIL 3, 2009
Session I. (Warren Hall 401: 9.30-11.30am) Food Crisis Textures
Session II. (Warren Hall 401: 1.00-2.30pm) Food Crisis Implications
Plenary Session. (Ives Hall 305: 3.00-5.00pm) Keynote: Tim Lang - How New is the World Food Crisis? Food Democracy, Food Control & Food Policy in the 21st Century

APRIL 4, 2009
Session III. (Warren Hall 401: 9.00-10.30am) Food, Land and Ecology
Session IV. (Warren Hall 401: 11.00-1.00pm) Alternatives
Sessions V and VI. (Warren Hall 401: 2.00-5.15pm) Roundtables: Movements, and Visions

Email Ann Prince for more information.

MODERNITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
Sponsored by the departments of Development Sociology and City & Regional Planning
Co-sponsored by the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

March 6, 2009: Jason Moore
Origins of the Ecological Crisis

April 17, 2009: Neil Smith
Toxic Capitalism

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, REGIONALIZATION AND THE NATION-STATE
Sponsored by the departments of Development Sociology and City & Regional Planning
Co-sponsored by the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

September 19, 2008: Sandra Halperin
Trans-Local and Trans-Regional Structures in Global Development: A “Horizontal” Perspective

October 24, 2008: Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Global Economic Governance and Development

November 14, 2008: Diane Elson
Global Governance and Gender Equality: Beyond Neoliberalism?

SPACE, PLACE AND DEVELOPMENT
Sponsored by the departments of Development Sociology and City & Regional Planning
Co-sponsored by the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

February 29, 2008: John Agnew
The New Global Economy: Time-Space Compression, Geopolitics and Uneven Development

March 13, 2008: David Harvey
Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development

April 18, 2008: Akhil Gupta
National Poverty, Global Poverty and Neoliberalism

IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP
Sponsored by the departments of Development Sociology and City & Regional Planning
Co-sponsored by the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

September 7, 2007: Aristide Zolberg
A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America

October 12, 2007: Saskia Sassen
Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages

November 16, 2007: Mae M. Ngai
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

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