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CGSD 2003-2004 Events Archive

Political Ecology Seminar

CGSD sponsored a seminar series on issues related to Political Ecology.  Paige West of the Barnard College Anthropology Department was the main organizer for the seminar.  Please visit the Political Ecology site for the list of events.

 

May

20th-21st:

Workshop on Innovation in the Life Sciences

A workshop on intellectual property and public investment for pharmaceuticals and agriculture.

April 15th: 

Seminar on Technology Policy and Agriculture in Africa

A Brown Bag Lecture at SIPA by William Masters, Interim Executive Director of CGSD

Download presentation slides -- caution: a large file, 4 MB

April 1st:

Speech by H.E. Fradique de Menezes, President of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe

This visit occured in conjunction with CGSD's advisory project in Sao Tome.

April 1st:

Lecture by Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh

This talk was the Second Annual Investcorp Lecture in International Finance and Business at SIPA, co-sponsored by CGSD.

Feb. 26th:

Workshop on "Escaping the Resource Curse"

The Earth Institute and the Open Society Institute organized this conference to elicit lessons learned from recent efforts to improve the management of natural resource revenues in developing countries.

Feb. 24th:

"The Case for and Against Patents: Biosciences and Drugs"

Seminar by Claude Henry, École Polytechnique

Feb. 12th:

"Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble"

Speech by Lecture Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute

Feb. 12th:

"What is Islamic Finance?"

Seminar by Abdul Kader Thomas, Director of the American Journal of Islamic Finance

Jan. 26th:

"Millennium Development Goals: Energy, Water, and Sanitation in Rural India"

Seminar by Dr. Jyoti Parikh, Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development in New Delhi

Jan. 16th and 17th:

The 2004 Retreat on Economic and Security Issues in Africa and the Caribbean Basin

The Earth Institute and the Humpty Dumpty Institute, a New York-based NGO that promotes dialogue between the UN and the United States Senate, hosted this event at Columbia University's Low Library.

December 4th:

"Access to Medicines and the Financing of Innovations in Health Care"

This workshop was co-sponsored by the Earth Institute and the Consumer Project on Technology.  Please click on the above link for papers and presentations.   The full agenda and list of participants is also available. 

November 26th:

"HIV/AIDS and Social Involution in Africa"

Seminar by Alex de Waal.

October 13th:

"Dominican-American Relations: Building Bridges for Development"