Lectures and Forums

Forum on International Issues

Sponsored by the Global Education Center

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.

 

Forum on International Issues
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.

 

Forum on International Issues
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.

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"

Fall 2007

Vladimir Sukhanov "Russian Choral Music"

Spring 2007

Charlayne Hunter-Gault " A Ripple in the Water: Healing Through Art (PDF)"
Heidi and Melinda Basaran "An Evening of Turkish Cooking Hosted by Lalezar Restaurant: Lecture/Demonstration and Tasting Menu"

Artemy Kivovich Troitsky "Back in the USSR:Censorship and Conformity in Russian Rock and Youth Culture"
Eliot Borenstein "Overkill: The Aestethics of Sex and Violence in Post Soviet-Russia"
Ted Goertzel, Stephanie Golob, James Woodard "Elections and Governance in Latin America"
Chef Celia Regev "East Meets West: The Diversity of Israeli Cooking"
Dr. Svetlana Sigida "The Music of Sergei Taneyev"

Spring 2006
Casper Mudde "The Riots in France: The End of Multiculturalism?"
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, Dr. Xu Xin, Dr. Kenneth Olenik "Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness"
Yale Strom " A Man from Munkacs: Gypsy Klezmer "
Dr. Mohammed Moin Sadeq "Palestinian Culture in the Context of Gaza"

Fall 2005
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi "Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy"
Maritza Corrales "Jewish Life in Cuba: Immigration and Integration
Pamela Window "Zhora's Ladder and Other Moroccan Tales: An Illustrated Reading"
Dr. Patricia Begne " Women's Rights in Mexico"
Ron Moffatt, Darla Deardoff, Robert Frost, Marty Tillman " The Role of International Education in the Global Workforce Development "

Spring 2005
Dr. Robin Anderson "Central America in the US Press"
Dr. Clara Rodriguez "Latinos in Hollywood"

Fall 2004
Pat Graney " In Your Shoes"
Michael Montas "Dodging Bullets: Reporting the news under fire"

Spring 2004
Kathryn Martell and Elizabeth Emery "Using Technology to Enrich International Exchange in the Classroom"

Fall 2003
Urban Jonsson " Collaboration or Calamity: Africa in Peril"
Sergiy Glebov "World Terrorism: The View from Ukraine and Russia"

Spring 2003
George Cunningham "European Union Enlargement and a Future of Europe in a Changing World"
Irina Koulikova "Recital of Rachmaninoff Piano Music"
XuXin "Reform in 21st. C. China: Ideal and Reality"
Royal Marine Lieutenant Colonel John Leigh and Lieutenant Commander Moreatha Yvette
Flaggs, NATO Briefing Team "NATO in the 21st Century: Current Risks and Challenges"
Anne Ejikeme "Contesting women's Bodies: Islamic Fundamentalism, the Miss World Contest,
Terrorism and the State in Nigeria"
International Travel Photography by MSU Faculty and Staff "Exhibit Opening Reception"

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