“Understanding Terrorism and Global Conflict” lecture series

Thursday 4/5 — Global Rise of Religious Violence, 7 – 9 pm, Hardy Tower, room 140.
Featured speaker: Mark Juergensmeyer, director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies and professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Thursday 4/12 — Globalization and Global Poverty, 7 – 9 pm, Hardy Tower, room 140.
Featured speaker: Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded network on the “Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance.”

Thursday 4/19 — The Labor of Globalization: How Chinese Workers Confront 21st Century Capitalism, 7 – 9 pm, Hardy Tower, room 140.
Featured speaker: Ching Kwan Lee from Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Studies.

Thursday 5/3 — Understanding Globalization, 7 – 9 pm, Hardy Tower, room 140.
This is the last lecture of the 2007 series, and it will feature a roundtable discussion with SDSU political science faculty members Latha Varadarajan, Jonathan Graubart, Ahmet Kuru and Lei Guang.