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In the Fall of 2004, Mark Rupert, Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University, will begin the series with a lecture, “America in the World: Capitalism, Globalization, and Empire.” His focus will be to situate the lecture series thematic within its historical context and to raise the relevant questions that our Post-9/11 world has generated. Prof. Rupert’s approach is one that incorporates the “new anarchism” and the global justice movement. Rey Koslowski, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, will lecture on “International Migration, Border Control and Homeland Security in the Information Age.” He will explore the efforts of the U.S. and other advanced countries to selectively control migration using new information technologies in order to shape flows of human capital to the needs of information technology-driven, globalizing economies. In the Spring of 2005, Samuel Schmidt, Professor of Social Science at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, will lecture on “U.S.-Mexican Immigration Policy Since 9/11: A View from the Border.” Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the issue of immigration between the US and Mexico has been very controversial. After 9/11 and the passage of the Patriot Act the issues surrounding immigration have become even more complicated. Professor Schmidt will explore these issues from the vantage point of the border nexus of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and the policies of the Bush and Fox administrations. Our last speaker, James Crotty, Professor of Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will conclude the series with a lecture, “The Future of the US Economy and Financial System, Global Capitalism, and the International System?”. Crotty is an expert on the US and global economy with a particular interest in the financial sector. The tech boom and collapse of the 1990s, 9/11, the Iraq War, the War on Terrorism, and the volatile swings in financial markets provide a critical contextual framework for assessing the future of the US economy, the global economy, and the international system.