Discovery Program University Dialogue -
Events 
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Discovery
Author's Forum: These will be held at a variety of times during the fall and spring
semesters. Discovery Authors will use this time to focus on specific aspects of the topic of globalization.
Blackboard Dialogue: Interested students, faculty, staff and community members can join an on-line conversation by logging on to Blackboard and following these directions: Click on the Organizations & Departments tab above and search for "University Dialogue". Follow the links to add University Dialogue as one of your Blackboard organizations.
Other Dialogue Related Events...
Spring Semester
January 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Huddleston Hall
Academic Achievement Luncheon (must register to attend)
Keynote speaker: Dialogue Author, Professor Lawrence C. Reardon
January 25
Wednesday
8:00 PM
MUB Granite State Room
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy:
An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade
Speaker: Peitra Rivoli
An entertaining narrative of globalization in action... not until she follows her t-shirt into the market for export of American secondhand clothing to Africa does Professor Rivoli find a truly free market. Professor Rivoli specializes in corporate and international finance. She teaches at Georgetown University. Part of the MUB Current Issues Series.
February 1
Wednesday
2:00 – 4:00 PM
MUB Strafford Room
Lift Up Your Voice and Speak: Civil Rights in an Era of Civil Wrongs
A dialogue exploring contemporary threats to democracy as a part of UNH’s MLK Day Celebration. Panelist include Patricia Williams, Harvard Sitkoff, Hannah Silimmy and Kalamu va Salaam.
February 14
Tuesday
7:30 PM
MUB Theatre II
Sexually Transmitted Disease in Global Perspective
An Annual Valentine’s Day Lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Salloway. Bring your significant other and make this a romantic event! There WILL be singing!
February 15 – 19
7:00 PM the15th – 18th
2:00 PM on the 19th
Johnson Theatre
The Palestinian
Conceived and directed by David Kaye
Who are the Palestinians? Some may argue that the Palestinians impact the daily lives of Americans more than any other peoples. The ongoing Palestinian/Israeli conflict can even be attributed as one of the root causes of the Iraqi war. How have the media and a post 9-11 environment shaped our views about the Palestinians? What do we see? How near or far is that image from any semblance of reality? An ensemble of actors will confront their own beliefs, prejudices, sympathies and fears, and will contrast them against the realities of Palestinian life. Created from up-to-the-minute communications with Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza, the play will transform these controversial questions, extraordinary stories, and construed images into moving theatrical art. Audience: Parental discretion strongly advised. Tickets: General • $12.50; Seniors/Children 12 & under/UNH ID/Group 15+ • $10.50.
Post Show Events: There will be a panel discussion after each performance. The different panelist include Professor Hala Nassar, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Culture and Literature at the departments of Near Easter Languages and Civilization and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, UNH faculty such as Professors Marla Brettschneider (Political Science/Women’s Studies), Alynna Lyon (Political Science), Alasdair Drysdale (Geography) and David Kaye (Theatre and Dance) as well as members of the acting ensemble. Professor Nassar will also give a public lecture before one of the performances (Time and Place TBA).
February 16
Thursday
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Holloway, Squamscott Room
Globalization and What it means for the New Hampshire Economy
What Does Globalization Mean for New Hampshire? What are the opportunities and challenges? Come participate in this exciting UNH Discovery Program event with New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and UNH faculty Discovery Program Authors. Bring your questions and engage in discussion and discovery about Globalization and the NH Economy with the Governor and UNH faculty members.
Podcast
Audio Podcast url: http://nhptv.org/admn400/class/mp3/admn400podcast_spring06.rss
Video Podcast url: http://nhptv.org/admn400/class/mp3/admn400_v_podcast_spring06.rss
Setting up podcast
February 17
Friday
6:00 PM
MUB 334/336
Bolivia, Aymara Women’s Rights and Globalization
Speaker: Felipa Huanca Llupanqui
Felipa is an Aymara woman leader in El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia. She was born in the rural province of Omasuyos and migrated to the urban area of El Alto in her early twenties. She not only has maintained a strong Aymara identity despite discrimination and pressures to change, but has worked for many years in the promotion of indigenous women. She will speak about the Bolivian reality and challenges for greater advancement of indigenous women. In 1997, she was a founder of the group “Kullakas” (”Sisters”), a group involved in the holistic promotion of women with the specific purpose of forming indigenous women leaders from both the rural and urban areas. In 2003, at the age of 36, with the purpose of continuing her promotion of indigenous women, she began her studies in Sociology at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz. In the Sociology department for her year, she was the only woman that maintained her Aymara dress. She is currently the representative of the Sociology students of her year. As a leader, she was elected the General Secretary of the Omasuyos province, and subsequently Executive Secretary of the Department of La Paz (20 provinces) of a women’s federation. In this latter position, she led a United Nations PNUD consultation on rural women.
March 2
Thursday
6:00 PM
Granite State Room
Speaker: John Perkins, Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“Economic hit men,” John writes in his controversial book, “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.”
March 28
Tuesday
1:00-2:00 PM
MUB Theatre
Speaker: Carol Counihan
Around the Tuscan Table: Ethnography, Memory and Changing Cuisine
This talk will use food-centered life histories gathered from twenty-three members of one Florentine extended family to explore the role of food in memory and the cultural consequences of changing cuisine. What can ethnographic stories about diet, meals, and food habits tell about memory and the evolution of Tuscan culture in the new millennium? An Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director of Women's Studies at Millersville University as well as the coeditor of the journal, "Food and Foodways," Carole Counihan conducts research primarily on food and culture, with her field work focused mainly on Florence, Italy. Sponsors: Discovery Program, College of Liberal Arts, Center for International Education, Center for the Humanities, Sustainability Program, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Department of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, Italian Program.
March 29
Wednesday
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Granite State Room, MUB
University Dialogue Town Hall Meeting: What are the implications of Globalization at UNH? Join the Discovery Authors for an interactive dialogue.
Dialogue moderated by UNH Provost Bruce Mallory.
April 12
Wednesday
6:00 PM
MUB Theatre II
Movie and Discussion: The End of Suburbia, Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream.
Since the end of WW II North Americans have encouraged the growth of suburbia and the automobile has become the preferred method of transportation. This movie explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era when global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary. Discussion following led by Discovery Author and Faculty Emeritus Filson Glanz.
April 19
Wednesday
7:00 PM
Theatre II, MUB
Human Rights Watch Film Festival Showing
Compadre'
Discussion to follow film with Professor Lori Hopkins
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