Fall 2008 Calendar

Friday,  October 17. 12:30 p.m

Burma Today: Is the Ice Breaking?
Thomas Vallely, Director, Vietnam Program, Asia Programs, Ash Institute, Harvard Kennedy School      
Professor David Dapice, Chief Economist, Vietnam Program, Asia Programs, Ash Institute, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor, Economics Department, Tufts University
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level
                       
Thursday, October 30. 4 p.m.

Screening of the film Kabul Transit
Introduced by Professor Thomas J. Barfield, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
CGIS South, Room S153

Friday, October 31, 12:30 p.m.

Making Sense of Security:
A Discussion of the Film “Kabul Transit”
Professor David B. Edward , Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level
                                               
Friday, November 7, 12:30 p.m.

Lessons for Labor: The U.S.-Cambodia Trade Agreement
Dr. Regina Abrami, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School; Faculty Chair, HBS Immersion Experience Program
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level                                             

Friday, November 21, 12:30 p.m.

Public Health Issues in Asia (tentative title)
Dr. Jim Kim, Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine, HMS; Former Director of the WHO’s HIV/AIDS Department
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level