Dalhousie Crosscurrents Panel on the WTO: Seattle and the Future of the State

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 17:06:26 -0400 (AST)
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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.
 
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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
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