GDAE Brown Bag Lunch Talks 2009

GDAE Brown Bag Lunch Talks are informal presentations of current research taking place at the Global Development And Environment Institute and are open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, all Brown Bag Talks will take place between 12:30-1:30PM in GDAE’s conference room on the 3rd floor of its offices at 44 Teele Ave on Tufts Medford Campus.

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2009 Schedule of Events

Tuesday March 10, 12:30-1:30pm

Carlos L. Muñoz, MALD Candidate at Tufts Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy

“Negotiating Payment for Environmental Services in Costa Rica”

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Thursday March 26, 12:30-1:30PM

María del Carmen Vera-Díaz, Senior Research Fellow with GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development Program

“Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Expansion in the Amazon Basin”

More details of this project are available at: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/amazon_project.html

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Tuesday March 31, 12:30-1:30PM

Peter Uvin, Academic Dean and The Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, will discuss his new book:

“Life after Violence: A People's Story of Burundi”

Burundi recently emerged from twelve years of civil war. In this book, ordinary Burundians, farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk about the past and the future, war and peace, their hopes for a better life and their relationships with each other and the state. Young men, in particular, often seen as the cause of violence, talk about the difficulties of living up to standards of masculinity in an impoverished and war-torn society. Professor Uvin pitches the ideas and aspirations of people on the ground against the assumptions often made by the international development and peace-building agencies.

Book details available at: http://us.macmillan.com/lifeafterviolence

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Tuesday April 7, 12:30-1:30PM

Professor Wang Yi, Guangdong University, Visiting Scholar at GDAE

“Ecological Compensation between Eastern and Western Regions in China”

 

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Past Events

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The 2008 Leontief Prize
for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought

“Beyond the Washington Consensus:
New Visions for Trade and Development”

Monday, November 17, 2008
5:00-7:30 pm
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, Medford Campus, Tufts University
Ceremony and addresses will be followed by a reception.

Click here for more details

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GDAE 2008 Open House

Come Learn about GDAE!
Wednesday September 17, 2008
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Directions available here

Download flyer here

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Book Event 
Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration in the Developing World

Talks and discussion with James K. Boyce, Co-editor of "Reclaiming Nature:
Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration." 

Book Signing to Follow Talk

Wednesday April 16, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Mugar 200 – The Fletcher School
160 Packard Avenue, Tufts Medford Campus
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Download event flyer here

Sponsored by:
The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE), Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), and Peace and Justice Studies.

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Enclave Economy Book Tour

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Book Event: Bridging the Development Gap:
Making Globalization Work for Developing Countries

Talks and discussion with Ha-Joon Chang, author of "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism," and Kevin P. Gallagher, author of "The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley."

Watch the video interview with the authors here

Book Signing and Reception with Snacks and Drinks to Follow Talk

Monday January 28, 2008
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Cabot 702 – The Fletcher School
160 Packard Avenue, Tufts Medford Campus
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Download event flyer here

Sponsored by:
The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE), Center for International Environmental and Resource Policy (CIERP), Tufts Latin American Studies Program (LAS), Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE), Environmental Sustainability Initiative (ESI)

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GDAE is pleased to be co-sponsoring the following event with Tufts Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and Tufts WSSS Program:

Professor Alvaro González-Gervasio
The Department of Geography, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

"The Transboundary Environmental Conflict Between Argentina and Uruguay"

Thursday November 1, 6-8PM

Cabot 205, The Fletcher School
160 Packard Ave.

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The 2007 Leontief Prize
for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought

“Climate Change, Economic
Development, and Global Equity”

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
5:00-7:30 pm
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, Medford Campus, Tufts University
Ceremony and addresses will be followed by a reception.

Click here for more details

 

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Kamal Malhotra

“National Trade and Development Strategies:
Lessons from Successful Experiences in Asia”

Kamal Malhotra is UNDP’s Senior Adviser on Inclusive
Globalisation, and heads the Bureau of Development Policy’s
trade policy work and team.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Cabot 702 – The Fletcher School
160 Packard Avenue, Tufts Medford Campus
Reception with snacks and drinks to follow talk

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"The New Politics of Intellectual Property in Latin America"

Dr. Kenneth Shadlen

Senior Research Fellow with GDAE's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program and Associate Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Cabot 206
Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

160 Packard Avenue, Tufts Medford Campus
Map and Directions Available Here

Reception with Brazilian food to follow talk
Sponsored by:
The Global Development And Environment Institute, the Tufts Latin American Studies Program, and the Fletcher Latin America Group

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GDAE Brown Bag Lunch Talks - 2007

Friday February 2, 12:30-1:30PM – Dr. Lloyd Jeff Dumas, professor of economics and public policy at The University of Texas at Dallas, will give an informal talk on 'The Climate Change Challenge'

Wednesday February 21, 12:30-1:30PM – Dr. Brian Roach, GDAE Research Associate, on increasing public funding of R&D related to Climate Change

Wednesday March 7, 12:30-1:30PM – Dr. Liz Stanton, GDAE Researcher, on her dissertation work with the Human Development Index

Friday March 23, 12:30-1:30PM – Dr. Ann Helwege, GDAE Senior Research Fellow, and Melissa Birch, GDAE Research Assistant, on Poverty in Latin America: Are We Really Making Progress?

Tuesday April 3, 10:00 - 11:00AM – Rick Reibstein, Senior Analyst, Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance, on Benefits of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures

Wednesday April 4, 12:30-1:30PM – Dr. Neva Goodwin, GDAE Co-Director, on Macroeconomics & the Environment

Wednesday April 25, 12:30-1:30PM – Dr. Kevin Gallagher, GDAE Senior Researcher, and Roberto Porzecanski, GDAE Research Assistant, on Taking Away the Ladder? China and the Competitiveness of Latin American Exports

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday May 2, 12:30-1:30PM – Elanor Starmer, GDAE Research Assistant, on her Masters thesis on Industrial Livestock Farming - rescheduled to Wednesday May 16, from 12:30-1:30PM 

Wednesday May 9, 12:30-1:30PM – Suzanne Bremer, GDAE Project Coordinator for the Social Science Library, on Wicked Good Wikis: Using Wiki Websites to Manage Complex Projects

Wednesday May 16, 12:30-1:30PM - Elanor Starmer, GDAE Research Assistant, on her Masters thesis on Industrial Livestock Farming

 *These informal talks take place in the 3rd floor conference room of GDAE’s offices at 44 Teele Ave.

Download a flyer with the complete talk schedule here.

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GDAE 2006 Open House
Tuesday September 12th, 2006
5:30-7:00 PM at GDAE
Come learn about GDAE!

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