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Volume CXXXIII, Number 9 |
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Classes, campus organizations kick off globalization week
EVRON LEGALL AND PAUL JUNG
STAFF WRITERS
Professor Joe Bandy and his Globalization and Social Change class will run the Globalization Conference, a week-long campus event beginning today. The event will be sponsored with various academic departments, student organizations, and college houses.
The week will be packed with speakers from both on and off campus.
Richard Appelbaum, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Director of the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, is the featured speaker at Common Hour today. He will give a talk entitled, "Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of Enforcing Global Labor Standards."
Marc Kielburger, Director of International Projects for Free the Children, will give a talk about his efforts to end child labor and improve human rights on Tuesday, November 18 in Kresge Auditorium. A Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Kielburger is also the founder of Leaders Today, a group that seeks to inspire youth to take more social action.
"Raising awareness of global issues on a campus-wide level fits in well with Bowdoin's goal of using education for the common good," said Kathryn Leach '04, a student in Bandy's course. She added that she hoped the conference would "raise awareness [and] begin a campus-wide dialogue about globalization."
The organizers hope to stimulate a campus-wide discussion on several hot-button issues related to globalization including market liberalization, sweatshops, environmental degradation, gender inequalities, and intergovernmental organizations such as the IMF.
Other speakers include Jonathan White, a professor of sociology at Colby College and Director of Kids Can Free the Children, who will join several Bowdoin professors on Monday, to participate in a presentation and discussion entitled "Globalization 101: It's a Small World After All."
On Wednesday, Bjorn Claeson of Peace through Inter-Community Action-a Bangor-based organization-will come to Ladd House. He will lead a discussion on the effects of globalization on Maine's economy and environment entitled "A Globalized Maine?: A Discussion of Globalization's Impact on Maine, and What We Can Do."
Other presentations and discussions will include "Working in a Gendered World" with Professor Kirsten Ghodsee (next Tuesday in Kresge). Next Thursday, Professor David Vail will present and lead a discussion on globalization and the environment entitled "The Last Tree Standing."
Finally, Professor Joe Bandy will round out the week with a talk in Lancaster Lounge next Friday about the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.
The student organizers of the event hope that the multiplicity of disciplines and professions involved in the conference will illustrate the broad-ranging effects of globalization and its relevance to Bowdoin students of all academic interests.
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