Montclair State University

Lectures and Forums

Forum on International Issues

Sponsored by the Global Education Center

The Lecture Series brings scholars and other experts to the MSU campus to present talks on international issues to a broader audience including students and faculty. Events are held in various locations on campus. This event is free and open to the public but reservations are recommended. For further information, contact Wendy Gilbert Simon at X4185 or email simonW@mail.montclair.edu.

Fall 2009

Forum on International Issues
Sponsored by the Global Education Center
Thursday December 3, 2009 at 3:00pm
Student Center Room 419

IRAQ AND WAR:
THE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

Mahmood M. Barbooti

The deterioration of environmental conditions and health in Iraq since 2005 is associated with the degradation of the country's infrastructure. The reduced investments in environmental protection; lack of electricity, water purification and sewage treatment have had a great impact on public health. Iraq faces an enormous challenge to restore the water and sanitary systems, rehabilitate waste disposal systems, remediate highly polluted sites to stop the continuous contamination of soil and ground water, repair the incinerators of the main hospitals.

Dr. Mahmood M. Barbooti is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the School of Applied Sciences, University of Technology, Bagdad, Iraq. Through an Institute for International Education grant, he is currently a Visiting Scholar for research and teaching in the College of Science and Mathematics at MSU. With a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Bagdad and Umea University in Sweden, he served as Chairman of the Environmental Analysis Center, Ministry of Environment and Director of Chemical Industry Research Center, and Chairman of the Quality Control Head Office of the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals.

Faculty wishing to bring classes should contact simonW@mail.montclair.edu to ensure sufficient space.

Forum on International Events

Co- Sponsored by the Global Education Center, the Women’s Center
and the Modern Languages and Literatures Department

Thursday November 12 at 2:30pm

Student Center Room 411

African Women in Their Societies: Between Traditionalism and Modernism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Awa Thiam

Dr. Awa Thiam is an Assistant Professor of Research at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal. She has also served as Director of the National Center for Assistance and Training of Women under the Ministry of Women and Children. She is the author of “Continents Noirs- Dark Continents” and “Women’s Struggle for the Abolition of Sexual Mutilation” as well as a series of articles for Le Monde. She is the co-founder of the Alliance for a New Citizenship in Dakar, and won the French governmental Medal for the Defense of Women’s Rights in 1985. She received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Paris VIII and a Ph.D. in Philosophy for Pantheon-Sorbonne Paris I.

Faculty wishing to bring classes should call x 4185 or simonW@mail.montclair.edu to reserve sufficient space.

Forum on International Affairs
Sponsored by the Global Education Center
Thursday November 5 at 2:30pm
Student Center Room 411

Sustainability, Resilience, and Revitalization: The City of Manila, Philippines
Robert Taylor

Manila is a prime example of a city without proper management planning and the potential to become a major environmental hazard. This talk explores the results of a Fulbright Research grant on revitalization of Manila. Based on the principles of sustainability, resilience and community support, Professor Taylor examines community views on the problems facing the city, how they can be brought into the sustainability management process, and the most salient recommendations for air, water and land ecologies in Manila.

Robert Taylor is a professor in the Dept. of Earth & Environmental Studies. The present talk is the product of his second Fulbright Award, to Manila, Philippines at De La Salle University.

Call x 4185 or simonW@mail.montclair.edu to reserve a place.

Fall 2008

Dr. Vladimir Lazarev "Russia and the World Bank Crisis: A Street-Level View of the Solutions and Prospects for Russian Government Incentives" Partridge Hall Room 423 Wednesday November 19, 2008 at 12:00

Report from Nicaragua: Tuesday December 2 at 2:00pm
Courtyard Lounge, University Hall

Spring 2008

Jerry Carlson "Conversations with Filmmaker Juraj Sajmovic"

Past Forums

Fall 2007

Vladimir Sukhanov "Russian Choral Music"