UCR PoGs Symposium

2008-2009 Speaker Series

Earlier POGS speakers archive

V. 12-12-08

POGS 0809 Speakers Series

Andrew Jorgenson (North Carolina State University) “ Political-economic integration, industrial pollution and human health: a panel study of less developed countries, 1980-2000”

Presented to the UCR Workshop on Global Health, September 26, 2008. Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department

 
Carolina Bank-Munoz (Hunter College) “Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States” October 2 (co-sponsored with the Labor Studies Program).
 

David R. Wilcox (Museum of Northern Arizona) “Applicability of world-systems theory

to the North American Southwest” October 27. Co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department

Eric Vanhaute (Ghent University) “The end of the peasantry: a world-systems perspective”

November 25. Co-sponsored by the History Department.

Symposium on “Financial Crises and Globalization”

January 13, 2009

Mike Davis (UCR) "Suburban Dustbowls?:The Crisis in Inland California"

William I. Robinson (UC-Santa Barbara) “Global Crisis and Alternative Futures”

Gary Dymski (UCR) “From Financial Exploitation to Global Economic Meltdown”

Co-sponsored by the Economics Department and the UCR Public Policy Initiative.

Juliann Allison, Matheu Kaneshiro and others (UCR) "Report Back from the 2009 World Social Forum in Amazonia" March 4, 2009. Co-sponsored by the Political Science Department.