Culture Corps presents
(Global Network Association of Minnesota Series Fall 2009)
This is a free lunch hour presentations with speakers from around the
word focusing on global issues. Speakers are professors and visiting
scholars from various fields such as management, science, technology,
medicine, social science, public health and etc.
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1. Globalization–Impact on Global Health
Speaker: Kumar G. Belani, MD
Date: Friday, October 23, 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Coffman Memorial Union, Presidents Room, East Bank
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How globalization affects health-care issues? The concept of globalization is not new. What is new is a very significant improvement in the speed of communication, transportation and capability to transport biological materials and consumables across the globe. Because of the high speed of sharing medical knowledge and information, technological advances are often available before they have restrictions and limited from federal oversight. This presentation will highlight these health care issues related to globalization.
2. In the Shadows of Globalization,
Dislocations and Border Crossings
in the Video Installation Trilogy, If You Can See Me Now.
Speaker: Visiting Professor. Minna Rainio
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
St. Paul Student Center, St. Paul Student Center. Minnesota Commons
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How dislocations and liminal cultural spaces in
relation to global migration and human trafficking can be communicated and
explored by means of art? This presentation will discuss a trilogy of video
installations by Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts, which explore how different
groups of people experience changing social positions and relations. The
first film – Borderlands – is a three- screen installation that uses
fact, fiction, and fantasy to explore the Finnish-Russian border. The
second – Angles of Incidence – explores the journey of three refugees
and the spaces of power they pass through on their journey to a new
country. The final work – Eight Rooms – is an eight-screen work that
examines the international trafficking of women for prostitution.
3. The Politics of Public Confessions by Perpetrators of State Violence,
Speaker: Dr. Leign A. Payne
Date: Friday, October 30, 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
St. Paul Student Center, St. Paul Student Center. Minnesota Commons
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This presentation, based on the book of Unsettling accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (2008), questions whether politics of public confessions do settle accounts. Does the “Unsettling” suggest the confessions of perpetrators can have some healthy consequences for democracy? The presentation, which drawn from the South African truth and reconciliation commission, will set up the question of what happens politically when perpetrators of past state violence come forward and recount their activities in the past.
4. Mathematics in Global Issues: International Research of Related
Failures
Speaker: Dr. Arkady Shemyakin, Visiting Professor
Date: Friday, December 4th, 2009
Time: 11:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
St. Paul Student Center, St. Paul Student Center. Minnesota Commons
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How mathematics relates to global issues? This presentation will focus on
international student research teams being established in Armenia (Erevan),
Russia (Astrakhan, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg), and U.S.A.
(Minneapolis/St. Paul) to explore statistical studies of related failures;
default correlation in finance and power transmission breakdowns in
engineering. The teams aim to develop and test models of statistical
dependence adequately describing these phenomena. Conditional copula
methods of survival analysis, developed to analyze human mortality, can be
applied to the statistical study of related failures.
5. Access to Justice for Women and Children Victim of War Conflict
Speaker: Marie Chantal Koffi, Visiting Scholar
Date: Friday, December 11th, 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
St. Paul Student Center, St. Paul Student Center. Minnesota Commons
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Many women and children were traumatized and affect physically, sexually
and emotionally by violent world. During to the politico military crisis in
the Ivory Coast, women and children were exposed to sexual violence and
gender inequality, and children were jailed for almost anything. This
presentation will focus on women and child trafficking in the Ivory Coast.
With the law association, Ms. Koffi experienced how to train women in rural
and urban areas in the Ivory Coast to give them a better change to live in
a violent war. She would like to share her experience and her concerns of
the many ongoing issues in the Ivory Coast.
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