International Focus Year Colloquium
- 2007-08: Crossroads
Latin America and the Caribbean have been undergoing a profound transformation since the early 1980s. The neoliberal turn in global capitalism gathered momentum with the onset of the debt crisis of the 1980s. By the early 1990s, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a growing emphasis on democratization and the enhancement of constitutional democracy across the region, and especially in the countries that had been dominated by military dictatorships.
- 2006-07: Mediating Myths
Indian Gods in Modern Times: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are the great epics of South Asia: exciting mythological tales of romance, warfare, and adventure involving the Hindu gods and goddesses, human heroes and heroines, demons,talking animals, and a wide cast of other characters. - 2005-06: Global Capitalism, Global Empire?
Capital and capitalism are globally constituted social forms. Not surprisingly, the universalization of capitalism is one of the most distinctive features of contemporary global life. - 2004-05: Empire, Immigration and the War on Terrorism
So much about the world and our lives has changed since Sept. 11, 2001. The terrorist attack upon the World Trade Center followed by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has set into motion forces that have simultaneously undermined and accelerated the contemporary dynamics of globalization and global capitalism. - 2003-04 Globalization
21st Century Challenges Since the 1960s, the forces of globalization have been transforming the world in every imaginable way. - 2002-03: Rome
753 BCE - 2003 CE: Lectures pertaining to Rome
