The Alworth Institute is offering two events this week. All events are free and open to the public. 1.) International Lecture Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM in the UMD Library 4th Floor Rotunda The World We Will Live - 2025 Presented by Dan Mullins, Manager, Africa Coastal Program, CARE-WWF Alliance (offered as part of Alworth Institutes lecture series on Confronting Global Modernity: The Challenge of Sustainability) CARE and the WWF have joined together to tackle the underlying causes of the poverty of women and children as well as the protection of the ecosystems that these people rely on. Their alliance began the Primeiras & Segundas Program in northern Mozambique in 2008, after 5 years of important ground work established by WWF Mozambique and local partners. The program works to preserve and improve the environment of the area and enrich the livelihoods of the people that depend on the area’s natural resources. As manager of the coastal program, Mullins will discuss this work and its importance to global sustainability. One issue he will focus on is the vulnerability of women to environmental degradation. In case you miss this lecture, it will be broadcast on KUMD radio (103.3 FM) on Monday, November 18, 2013 at 7:00 PM. 2.) Martha B. Alworth Memorial Lecture Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 7:30 PM in Mitchell Auditorium - College of St. Scholastica The End of American Exceptionalism Presented by Andrew Bacevich, Professor, Boston University Andrew Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of colonel. He is the author of “The New American Militarism and The Limits of Power,” among other books. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He has held fellowships at the American Academy in Berlin, at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, at the Kennedy School of Government and at the Council on Foreign Relations. He will offer a critique of the US propensity for intervention and empire building, and that even American citizens have condoned military service as an economic endeavor to fulfill our need for resources. (Sponsored by the CSS Alworth Peace and Justice Center with the support of the Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International Studies, UMD). This lecture is also funded in part by the Warner Lecture Series of the Manitou Fund, the DeWitt and Caroline Van Evera Foundation and from Mary C. Van Evera in memory of William Van Evera. Additional support has been received by the Global Awareness Fund of the Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation and from Reader Weekly of Duluth. & In addition, in case foreign policy does not interest you, author and journalist Bill Carter will speak about copper and the impacts of mining it on Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 12 Noon in the UMD Kirby Student Center Rafters. Mr. Carter, an award winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, and journalist, is the author of Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal that Runs the World. His book explores the role of copper in the world economy, the history of copper extraction, and the impact of mines on the economy and communities where they are located. For more information contact Steve Wick at [email protected].
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:57:40 +0000