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international roundtable 2009
Global Environment: The Eleventh Hour?
October 8–10, 2009 learn more about the International Roundtable
Program
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
Keynote Address
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
4:40 – 5:00 p.m. Opening Statements and Introduction
- Ahmed I. Samatar, James Wallace Professor and Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship
- Brian C. Rosenberg, President of Macalester College
5:00 – 6:25 p.m. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future
- Robert Costanza, Gund Professor of Ecological Economics, University of Vermont
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
Morning Session (9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
9:30 – 9:40 a.m. Introduction
Chair: Satoko Suzuki, Professor and Chair of Asian Languages and Cultures
9:40 – 10:25 a.m. China’s Environmental Challenge
Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
10:25 – 10:55 a.m. Respondents
Elizabeth Larson ’10
Mark Davis, DeWitt Wallace Professor and Chair of Biology
10:55 – 11:10 a.m. Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:25 a.m. Response by Elizabeth Economy
11:25 – 12:00 Questions and Comments
Afternoon Session (1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
1:30 – 1:40 p.m. Introduction
Chair: Amanda Ciafone, Assistant Professor of International Studies
1:40 – 2:25 p.m. “Turning the Order of Nature on its Head”: The Tropical American Origins of Global Agriculture
Shawn Miller, Chair of the History Department, Brigham Young University
2:25 – 2:55 p.m. Respondents
- Laura Bartolomei-Hill ‘10
- Sarah West, Associate Professor of Economics
2:55 – 3:10 p.m. Coffee Break
3:10 – 3:25 p.m. Response by Shawn Miller
3:25 – 4:00 p.m. Questions and Comments
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10
Final Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.)
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
10:00 – 10:10 a.m. Introduction by James Doyle, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
10:10 – 11:10 a.m. Roundtable Discussion featuring Robert Costanza, Elizabeth Economy, and Shawn Miller
11:10 – 12:00 Audience Questions and Comments
12:00 – 12:05 p.m. Closing Remarks by Dean Ahmed I. Samatar