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Three upcoming events for your interest: 1) MAKING A DIFFERENCE PANEL & INFO SESSION - MAR. 10 Think you can't make a difference? Think again! Positive social change through work & career lunchtime panel. "Making a Difference with Your Degree" Panel and Info Session about the Graduation Pledge Monday, March 10 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Room 224, Student Union Building Dalhousie University Halifax Snacks Provided. Four great Panelists: Jeff Moore, CEO of Just Us! Coffee & Fair Trade Investment Coop Sharon Martin, Community Developer of HRM Andrew Angus, Entrepreneur of Solar Juice and Founder of BetheChange Ramona Ryan, Organizer of the Social and Environmental Responsibility (SER)Pledge and Alternative Graduation Ceremony For more information, please contact nspirg@dal.ca Organized by NSPIRG and CESR 2) ELSS LECTURE ON NATURE'S END - MAR. 11 Public Lecture "Nature's End: Science, Technology and Teleology" by Dr. Trish Glazebrook, new Philosophy Professor at Dal. She is a very engaging speaker! Tuesday, March 11 12:00-1:00 PM Room 305 Dalhousie Law School 6061 University Ave. Dalhousie University Halifax Free, Bring your lunch. All Welcome! Organized by the Environmental Law Student Society (ELSS) This is a great lecture about how to love nature for nature's sake, a philosophical perspective. Bio: Dr. Patricia Glazebrook, Associate Professor. BA, Hons. (Alta., 1988), MA, PhD (Toronto, 1989, 1994). Her interests include: ethics, environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, and Heidegger. She teaches Business Ethics, Environmental Ethics and Eco-Feminism. Prior to Dalhousie, Dr. Glazebrook had been teaching in New York. Her books include: Eco-Logic: Erotics of Nature, Heidegger's Critique of Science, and Heidegger's Philosophy of Science. Her most recent papers include "Karen Warren's Ecofeminism" Ethics and Environment (forthcoming, 2002), "Global Technology and the Promise of Control" Globalization, Technology and Philosophy, ed. David Tabachnik (forthcoming, 2002), and "Heidegger and Scientific Realism" Continental Philosophy Review (2001) among many others. 3) "TRADING DEMOCRACY" - MAR. 11 Film Showing: "Trading Democracy" & Q&A with Dr. Gilbert Winham, International Trade Law Expert and Political Science Professor Tuesday, March 11 7:00-8:30 PM ScotiaBank Auditorium, McCain Building (FASS Building) 6135 University Ave. Dalhousie University Halifax This is the Bill Moyers' 2002 documentary about NAFTA's Chapter 11. Learn how this trade agreement threatens democracy, the natural environment and human rights and why we need to be worried about the FTAA. The film is 50 minutes long and is followed by a discussion with Dr. Winham. Free Candy and Draw Prizes Donations Appreciated Organized by CinemaPIRGatory and The Society for Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility (CESR) Web site: http://is2.dal.ca/~cesr Email: cesr@dal.ca Bio: Dr. Gilbert Winham teaches and conducts research on international political economy, and specializes in international trade policy. Dr. Winham is the Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Political Science, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a past Woodrow Wilson Fellow (2001-2002). He has served frequently on NAFTA dispute settlement panels. Dr. Winham has over twenty years experience in training government officials from developing countries in trade policy and negotiation at the GATT/WTO in Geneva. He has served as an on-site consultant in connection with the application for accession to the WTO of Jordan and the Kyrgyk Republic. Dr. Winham's recent writings include: "The Role of NAFTA Dispute Settlement in the Management of Canadian, Mexican and U.S. Trade and Investment Relations" (with Gustavo Vega), Ohio Northern University Law Review, Volume 28:3 (2002); "The Performance of the WTO Since 1995", Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Series 6, Vol. 11 (2001); "Institutional Development of the WTO" (with Anna Lanoszka) in Alan Rugman and Gavin Boyd (eds.), The World Trade Organization in the New Economy: Trade and Investment Issues in the Millennium Round, (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001); "Asymetric Power Negotiations: The Case of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (with Elizabeth DeBoer) in J. Rubin and I.W. Zartman (eds.), Power and Negotiation, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Dr. Winham is currently preparing a manuscript titled: The Debate over Genetically Modified Foods: Implications for International Relations. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- SUST-MAR TIP: messages to sust-mar must be plain text format (no HTML) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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