GLOBALIZATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY
COLLOQUIUM SERIES

2004-2005

Winter Quarter 2005

Thursday, March 3:  
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

ROBERT BOYER, Economist, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives d’Economie Mathématique Appliquées à la Planification (CEPREMAP) and Professor at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

"Development and Globalization: A Historical Perspective"
(Rooms 2238 Public Policy Building, UCLA)

Tuesday, February 22:  
12:00 Noon – 1:45 PM

NICHOLAS DEAKIN, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics and Political Science

“In Search of Civil Society”
(Rooms 5391 Public Policy Building, UCLA)
 

Fall Quarter 2004

Wednesday, November 10:  
12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM

GEORGE CORM, Economist, Consultant to international organizations, and former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lebanon

“East and West: An Everlasting Divide?”
(Rooms 5391 Public Policy Building, UCLA)

 

2003-2004

Spring Quarter 2004

Thursday,
May 27:
4:00 – 6:00 PM
MICHAEL MANN, Professor of Sociology, UCLA

The Incoherent Empire: A Critique of the New Imperialism
(Room 5391 Public Policy Building, UCLA)

Monday, May 10:
4:00 – 6:00 PM
RICHARD FALK, Albert Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University

"Globalization and Civil Society: Militarism, Economism, and Global Democracy."
(Room 5391 Public Policy Building, UCLA)

Tuesday,
April 20:
4:00 – 6:00 PM
(Reception to follow)
MICHAEL NAUMANN, Chief Editor and Publisher of Die Zeit

“Europe in the 21st Century – United by Terrorism, Divided by History
(Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center)

Wednesday, April 14:
4:00 – 5:30 PM
(Reception to follow)
 
His Excellency JEAN-DAVID LEVITTE, Ambassador of France to the United States

"Transatlantic Relations: New Challenges, New Opportunities”
(Little Theater, McGowan Hall, UCLA)

Tuesday,
April 13:
4:00 – 6:00 PM
MIKE EDWARDS, Director of the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Unit

“Will the Real Civil Society Please Stand UP? Local and Global Perspectives.”
(Room 5391 Public Policy Building, UCLA)
 

 Winter Quarter 2004

Wednesday, February 25
4:00-6:00 PM
(Reception to follow)

MARY KALDOR, Professor in Global Governance; and Principal Research Fellow and Programme Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics

"Globalization, New Wars, and Terror"
(UCLA Faculty Center, Sierra Room)
 

Fall Quarter 2003

Thursday, December 4:  
12:00 Noon – 1:30 PM

BLANDINE KRIEGEL, Special Advisor to French President Jacques Chirac, and Professor of Moral and Political  Philosophy, University of Paris X (Nanterre)

“Common Roots, Conflicting Interests: the Republic in France and America”
(Rooms 2343 and 2355 Public Policy Building, UCLA)
 

This colloquium series is cosponsored by the French Cultural Services in Los Angeles, the British Consulate General in Los Angeles, the Goethe Institute, Los Angeles, the London School of Economics Foundation, and UCLA Center for European & Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please contact: Nga Scott, Program Coordinator, Center for Globalization and Policy Research, telephone: (310) 825 8682; email: nscott@ucla.edu.