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Political economist, Patrick Bond is the director of the Centre for Civil Society, and teaches political economy and eco-social policy at the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban, South Africa. His research interests include economic justice, energy and water, NGO work in urban communities, and global justice movements in several countries.

Bond has authored/edited more than a dozen policy papers of the new South African government between 1994-2002, including Reconstruction and Development Programme, and the RDP White Paper. For information about his current research projects, please visit the Centre for Civil Society website.

Bond was educated at Swarthmore College, Department of Economics, the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, where he received his Ph.D. in 1993.

Events Include:

“Climate Change: What’s Wrong with Carbon Trading”
Tuesday, Sept. 29 1:00pm
Sawyer 427/429
8 Ashburton Place, Boston

“South African Politics in the Zuma Era”
* A reception will proceed this event @6:00pm in the McDermott Conference Room
Wednesday, Sept. 30 7:00pm
Donahue 311
41 Temple Street, Boston

“The Current Crisis and the Future of Capitalism”
A panel discussion with David Tuerck, Chair of Economics & Sebastián Royo, Assoc. Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Thursday, Oct. 1 1:00pm
Sawyer 423
8 Ashburton Place, Boston

“Looting Africa”
A panel discussion with James Carroll, Distinguished Scholar in Residence & Lina Zedriga Waru Abuku, Hunt Alternatives Fund
Friday, Oct. 2 12:00pm
The Poetry Center, Sawyer Library
73 Tremont Street, Boston

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 6:30pm
C. Walsh Theatre 55 Temple Street, Boston

Paul Polak, writer and founder of International Development Enterprises, joins Jasmine Waddell, senior officer for research and learning at Oxfam America, to discuss how entrepreneurial innovations empower those addressing poverty at its roots.

Presented by the Distinguished Visiting Scholars series at the College of Arts & Sciences and the Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University.  For more information, please e-mail info@fordhallforum.org or call 617-557-2007.

This event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 1:00pm
Sawyer 427/429 8 Ashburton Place, Boston
The Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series presents the panel discussion, “Serving the Other 90%: Practical Ways to Help the Very Poor.”  Featuring Paul Polak, the founder of Colorado-based non-profit International Development Enterprises (IDE) and author of Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail; Stephen Coffey, the owner and President of Thousand Hills Coffee; Sushil Bhatia, Suffolk professor, and inventor; and Gertrude Hewapathirana, Suffolk professor, and expert on female entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka.

Refreshments will be served.  For more information, please contact Lisa Shatz, lshatz@suffolk.edu.

“A Progressive Assessment of the Obama Administration’s First 100-Days,” a panel discussion featuring Congresswoman Barbara Lee - Congressional Black Caucus; Page Gardner -Women’s Voices, Women’s Vote; and Robert Borosage - Campaign for America’s Future.

Sponsored by the Jobin-Leeds Partnership for Democracy and Education; the Department of Government at Suffolk University’s College of Arts & Sciences; Commonwealth Seminar; Emerge Massachusetts; and Oiste.

Tags: 100 Days, Barbara Lee, Black Caucus, civic engagement, congress, democracy, education, Obama, progressive, vote

We’re in the process of adding multimedia video and audio of events that took place over this past semester at the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies.  To access these, you may simply choose the Podcast & Multimedia category on the left and click the event you’re interested in accessing.  In the future, we’ll be adding these as quickly as we can after the event takes place, so check them out and enjoy!  If you have any feedback for us, please feel free to respond in the comments.

A lecture by Shang-Jin Wei, of Columbia University

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 5:30pm Sargent Hall, room 295 120 Tremont Street

Dr. Shang-Jin Wei is Professor of Finance and Economics and N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy at Columbia University, and Director of Working Group on the Chinese Economy and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (US), and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (Europe).

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Wednesday, April 29, 6:00 p.m. Boston Athenæum, 10½ Beacon Street

The media these days speak in so many forked and foreign tongues — film, book, video game, broadcast, blog — that without a dictionary or a concordance it’s hard to know who is saying what to whom. Over the last fifty years it has come to pass that on an examination paper at the end of a year’s course in the history of western civilization a sophomore at a high-end New England university can give as his answer: “The Greeks invented three kinds of columns — Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth.”

How does a writer tell a straight story to readers who think in circles? Maybe by sending smoke signals.

LEWIS LAPHAM is the editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, the national correspondent for Harper’s Magazine, and the author of thirteen books, among them Money and Class in America, The Wish for Kings, Theater of War and, most recently, Pretensions to Empire. For Bloomberg Radio he hosts a weekly program, “The World in Time.”

A reception will follow this lecture. Reservations will be accepted starting April 16 at 617-720-7600.

After a successful innagural year, the The Communication and Journalism Department is pleased to present the 2008-2009 Rammy Awards. 

April 9, 2009 at 5:30pm in the C.Walsh Theatre
55 Temple Street, Boston

The Rammy Awards recognize outstanding media projects in ten categories within the communications field.   The winning videos will be screened during the Rammy Awards ceremony on April 9.  For more information, please contact the Communication and Journalism Department, at 617-573-8236.

Watch the Rammy Awards promo!!

A lecture by Mark Ramseyer, of Harvard Law School
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:00pm Poetry Center, Mildred F. Sawyer Library (3rd floor) 73 Tremont St
 

Mark Ramseyer is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard University. Over the past several years, his research has focused on the finance and governance of Japanese firms. He regularly teaches both American Corporate Law and courses related to Japanese law, and is co-editor of casebooks in both fields. Prior to his work at Harvard, Ramseyer taught at the University of Chicago (1992-1998) and at UCLA (1986-1992). Ramseyer was raised in Japan, where he attended Japanese schools until the 6th grade. He attended Goshen College (B.A., History, 1976), the University of Michigan (A.M., Japanese Studies, 1978), and the Harvard Law School (J.D. magna cum laude, 1982).

This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies.  For more information about the Institute, please visithttp://www.suffolk.edu/college/30058.html.  For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.

March 26, 2009 1:00pm C.Walsh Theatre

James Carroll has the distinction of being the first participant in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Distinguished Visiting Scholars program and is now with the College on a permanent basis as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence.

Carroll is an award-winning author and a columnist for the Boston Globe. His novels include Madonna Red, Mortal Friends (New York Times bestseller), Family Trade, Prince of Peace, The City Below, and Secret Father. His memoir, American Requiem: God, My Father and the War that Came Between Us, won the National Book Award in 1996. He has published Constantine’s Sword: the Church and the Jews: A History, which was a New York Times bestseller and listed Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor, and has since been the subject of Oren Jacoby’s documentary James Carroll’s Constantine’s Sword; Toward a New Catholic Church: The Promise of Reform, in response to the Catholic Church abuse scandal; and Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War, a compilation of op-ed pieces written for the Boston Globe since 9/11; and House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power, a history of the Pentagon, was called “the first great non-fiction book of the new millennium” by the Chicago Tribune.