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As the second event in its 1999-2,000 "Crosscurrents" series, the Dalhousie Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is sponsoring a panel discussion entitled: "Seattle and the Future of the State: The World Trade Organization, Globalization and the New Millenium" The panel discussion will take place on Wednesday February 9th, 7:30 to 9:30, MacMechan Auditorium, Killam Library, Dalhousie University. Panellists include: Elizabeth May, Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada; Current Holder of the Elizabeth May Chair in Women's Health and the Environment and Professor in the Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie Dr. Gilbert Winham, FRSC, Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Government and Political Science, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie Dr. Pauline Gardiner Barber, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and International Development Studies, Dalhousie Catherine Schittecatte, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science and Fellow, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie Respondent: Dr. Michael Bradfield, Professor, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University The Lester Pearson International Institute is co-sponsoring this event as part of its "International Days 2,000. All are welcome. Information on The Panellists: Elizabeth May has played a prominent role in issues surrounding the environment and health through her work with the Sierra Club of Canada and in other contexts. Professor Winham has published extensively on trade policy and the G7 and has worked for the federal government as one of Canada's delegates on trade dispute boards under the NAFTA agreement. Pauline Gardiner Barber has published and worked on class, labor and culture politics in Cape Breton and the Philippines, gender and development projects in Indonesia and the Philippines, and gendered labor migration in the Philippines, and the transnational political networking this leads to. Catherine Schittecatte's research includes work on social movement in the Amazon Basin, and interviews in Canada, the U.S. and Europe with activists and officials involved in the Multilateral Agreement and resistance to it. Professor Bradfield's primary focus is regional development; he has also published in many areas of economic policy including market structures, technology, foreign investment, and corporate/state relations. Questions the panel may address include the following. What impact has the WTO had on national sovereignty, and how will it affect the future of nation states? Why did so many well organized opponents come together in such great numbers to oppose the WTO in Seattle? What do the events in Seattle mean for future trade negotiations? How will the forces of economic globalization impact upon the environment, the condition of women, human rights, conditions of work, and developing nations? What new alliances are being forged globally within WTO circles and outside of them? Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Crosscurrents panels are not intended to include representives of all of the principal perspectives on important and controversial issues. Instead, they are intended to create a context in which Dalhousie researchers in different disciplines can stimulate examination and discussion of complex, topical issues in a public forum with ample time for comments, questions and input from those who attend. Our first Crosscurrents session last fall (on the Marshall decision) was attended by more than 80 people from the university and the community. We hope to see as many or more turn out and join in the discussion for this panel on Seattle and the WTO. *************************************************************************** Marjorie Stone Assistant Dean, Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4H6 Tel: (902) 494-6912; Fax: (902) 494-1957 *************************************************************************** -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Overloaded with email? Sust-mar has a DIGEST version. If you'd prefer to receive a compilation of sust-mar messages twice monthly instead of daily, send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> As the text of your message type "subscribe sust-mar-digest" And on the next line, type "unsubscribe sust-mar" Voila! Daily messages will stop, and twice-monthly will start.
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