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Rosenfield Sponsored Events, 2002 - 2003

Date Event Speaker
Sept. 9, 2002 Summer Internship Colloquium: I Spent My Summer in a Shelter: Our Experiences with Direct Social Service Mayra Madriz '03 (Fundacion Atenea, Caracas, Venezuela), Ann Mogush '03 (People Serving People, Minneapolis, MN)
Sept. 10, 2002 Summer Internship Colloquium: Shaping Political Consciousness Eleanor Licata '03 (ART Movement, Istanbul, Turkey), Sabrina Ross '04 (Project on Defense Alternatives, Cambridge, MA)
Sept. 11, 2002 The Lasting International and Domestic Impact of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks David Ellison (Political Science), Katya Gibel Azoulay (Anthropology), Robert Grey (Political Science), Wayne Moyer (Political Science), Russell Osgood (History & Political Science), Saadi Simawe (English)
Sept. 16, 2002 Summer Internship Colloquium: Progressive Grassroot Campaigning Adam Klepper '04 (Missouri Progressive Voter Coalition, St. Louis, MO), Amy Noll '03 (Citizens for Participation on Political Action, Boston, MA)
Sept. 17, 2002 Summer Internship Colloquium: Public Service and Casework in Federal and State Offices Josh Brody '04 (New York Attorney General's Office, Consumer Fraud & Protection Bureau, Albany, NY), Christina Mahoney '04 (Office of U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan, Kansas City, MO)
Sept. 23, 2002 Summer Internship Colloquium: Who Needs A Driver's License When the Ambulance Can Take You?: Obstacles in Obtaining a Driver's License and Ambulance Abuse in the Latino Community Erika Almanza '03 (Iowa Department of Human Rights, Division of Latino Affairs, Des Moines, IA), Melissa Colon '04 (Lincoln Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bronx, NY)
Sept. 24-27, 2002 Symposium: Death Journeys: Making the End Matter
Sept. 24, 2002 Poweshiek Community Survey Preview: Exploring Community Research to Improve Life's End--Tools for Community Based Research and Programming Kaye Norris, Ph.D., Director of Research, Missoula Demonstration Project, Missoula, MT
Love/Letters at Death: Lessons in Sacred Geometry: Uses of Art for Dealing with Death and Grieving Sandra Menefee Taylor, Minnesota artist
Sept. 25, 2002 Panel Discussion: How Various Religious Traditions Deal With the End-of-Life
Promoting Initiatives to Improve Care Near the End-of-Life M. Garey Eakes, Chief Operating Officer, Partnership for Caring, Washington, DC
Sept. 26, 2002 Scholar's Convocation: Dying in America: A Crisis and An Opportunity to Reclaim Life's End Dr. Ira Byock, M.D., Director, The Palliative Care Service, Missoula, MT
Panel Discussion: Dealing with End-of-Life Issues in Grinnell
W;t: Staged Reading by Students and Theatre Department Faculty Chris Connelly (Theatre), Lesley Delmenico (Theatre), Ellen Mease (Theatre)
Sept. 27, 2002 Open Discussion: Reflections on the Symposium
Sept. 29-Oct. 4, 2002 Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Jurek Martin, former Washington Bureau Chief, The Financial Times
Sept. 30, 2002 Public Lecture: The U.S. and Europe: The Iraqi Divide Jurek Martin
Oct. 2, 2002 Public Lecture: The Decline and Fall of Foreign News Coverage Jurek Martin
Toward A Sustainable Local Agricultural Economy: Struggles in Brazil, Venezuela & Mexico in the Context of Corporate-Led Globalization, co-sponsored by Global Development Studies and Latin American Studies Concentrations Salete Carollo (veteran activist and organizer of the Movimento Sem Terra, MST, one of the foremost social movements in Latin America), Santiago Obispo, (Venezuelan indigenous and campesino organizer representing REDCAM, Network of Amazonian Cooperation), Antonio Valenzuela, (Yagui indigenous activist from Chihuahua State, Mexico and founding member of Mexico's National Indigenous Congress, CNI)
Oct. 3, 2002 Informal Discussion: Politics in the U.S.
Oct. 7, 2002 Summer Internship Colloquium: INS and the Beach: My Summer at the International Rescue Committee Laura Polstein '04 (International Rescue Committee, Boston, MA)
Oct. 9, 2002 Summer Internship Colloquium: Promoting Dialogue and Educating Leaders: U.S.-China Relations and Latin American Affairs Jessica Beckwith '04 (Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC), Kenneth Yeung '04 (The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, New York, NY)
Oct. 28, 2002 Capitol Conspiracy: The New Face of the Death Penalty After 9/11 Robert Meeropol (Executive Director, Rosenburg Fund for Children; Son of Ethel and Julis Rosenberg, executed in 1953 by the U.S. Government for 'conspiring to steal the secret of the atomic bomb')
Oct. 30, 2002 Providing for the Common Defense: What's Wrong with Strategic Flexibility? A. Gregory Thielmann '72 (recently retired Director of the Strategic, Proliferation, and Military Affairs Office of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research)
Oct. 31, 2002 Informal Discussion: The Politics of the Middle East Professor Ira Sharkansky (Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Coping with Terror: Israelis and Palestinians Professor Ira Sharkansky
Nov. 5-8, 2002 Symposium: International Trade Sanctions: Effective or Ineffective Tools of Foreign Policy?
Nov. 5, 2002 The Success and Failure of the Cuba Embargo Philip Peters (Vice President, The Lexington Institute)
Nov. 6, 2002 Why Burmese Opposition Calls for Sanctions? Tin-Maung Than (Burmese Editor/Writer)
Difficult Dilemmas in Dealing with Iraq: Moving from Sanctions Toward War Ambassador Clovis Maksoud (Center for the Global South, School of International Service, American University)
Nov. 7, 2002 Scholars' Convocation: Sanctions as Instruments of Foreign Policy: Looking Ahead Gary Hufbauer (Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics)
Panel Discussion: International Student Perspectives on Sanctions
Is South Africa an Example of Successful Sanctions? Dan O'Flaherty (Executive Director, U.S.-South Africa Business Council and Vice President, National Foreign Trade Council)
Nov. 8, 2002 Open Discussion on Grinnell College Divestment and Apartheid
Nov. 11, 2002 Summer Internship Colloquium: Prague--Internships on the Faultline Jacob Omvig '03 (Czech Environmental Management Center), Brandon Zicha '03 (East-West Institute)
Nov. 12-14, 2002 Symposium: American Dreamer: The Legacy of Henry A. Wallace in Agriculture and Progressive Politics, co-sponsored by Center for Prairie Studies
Nov. 12, 2002 Performance of American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace Tom Milligan
Nov. 13, 2002 A World of Abundance: The Vision of Henry A. Wallace John C. Culver (Former U.S. Senator)
Nov. 14, 2002 Panel Discussion: Wallace's Legacy for Agriculture Harold Lee (Biographer of Roswell Garst and Grinnell College Trustee), http://web.grinnell.edu/rosenfield/wallace/holdmeye.doc>Frank Holdmeyer (Editor, Wallaces Farmer), http://web.grinnell.edu/rosenfield/wallace/lang.doc>Eugene Lang (Long-time Grinnell Farmer)
Panel Discussion: Wallace's Legacy for Progressive Politics Kent Newman (Program Consultant and Former Director, Wallace House Foundation)
Jan. 20, 2003 Panel Discussion: Grinnell College and Civil Rights Hubert Farbes '69, Frank Thomas '71, Judge henry Wingate '69, Professor Emeritus Alan Jones (History), Dorothy Pinder (Grinnell Herald-Register)
Candlelight March (downtown Grinnell to Herrick Chapel)
Commemoration Service with the YGB Choir, a reading of the 1967 Grinnell College speech made by Dr. King and remarks President Russell Osgood and Grinnell Mayor Gordon Canfield
Jan. 22, 2003 MLK Memorial Address: Remembering Dr. King's Dream Today Charles Ogletree, Jr. (Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Harvard University Law School)
Feb. 4, 2003 Insights on Conflict Mediation Anik Gevers '05 (Participant in Basic Caucus Mediation Course at the International Academy for Dispute Resolution)
American Model UN at Chicago: Simulation World Politics The Grinnell College Student Model UN Delegation
Feb. 5, 2003 Summer Internship Colloquium: Overlooking Ellis Island: A Study of Recent Immigration Dree Collopy '04 (Center for Migration Studies, Staten Island, NY)
Feb. 11-13, 2003 Symposium: The Future of the Rainforest: Does the Past Show the Way to the Future?
Feb. 11, 2003 Visualizing Deep Ecological History in Amazonia: Landscape and Polity Michael Heckenberger (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida)
Community and Nature at El Pilar: A Philosophy of Resilience for the Maya Forest Annabel Ford (Research Archaeologist, Institute of Social, Behavioral and Economic Research; Director, Meso-American Research Center, University of California at Santa Barbara)
Feb. 12, 2003 Long-Term Human-Environment Interaction in Tropical Forests in Africa and South America: A Challenge to Conservation Biology Anna C. Roosevelt (Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago)
The Impact of Landscape Transformation on Native Languages in Amazonia William L. Balee (Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University)
Feb. 13, 2003 Scholars' Convocation: Pre-European Amazonia: Pristine or Humanized? William M. Denevan (Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Wisconsin at Madison)
The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon Clark L. Erickson (Associate Curator of Andean Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania)
Feb. 17, 2003 Promoting Environmental Sustainability at the Multilateral Development Banks: Role of U.S. Government Keith Kozloff '72 (Senior Environmental Advisor, Office of International Development Policy, U.S. Treasury Department)
Appeasing the River Spirits: Federal Environmental Review of an International Development Project Keith Kozloff
Feb. 20, 2003 Summer Internship Colloquium: Freedom, Justice and the Law: The ACLU of Eastern Missouri Ellie Craig '04 (American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri)
Summer Internship Colloquium: A Close Knit Unit: A Summer Working with a Capital Defense and Trial Services Unit in Connecticut Victoria Horn '04 (Capital Defense and Trial Services Unit, State of Connecticut)
Mar. 11, 2003 Four Golden Minutes: A Terrorist Response (A Volunteer Talks About Suicide Bombings in Israel) Yaakov Uri (Zaka Rescue & Recovery, Jerusalem)
Apr. 8-10, 2003 Cultural Globalization: How Much Are We Becoming Alike
Apr. 8, 2003 Global Communication Technologies and Cultural Exchange
The Globalization of Popular Culture in Latin America
Mark Poster (Dir., Film Studies Program, Univ. of California-Davis)
Steven Loza (Prof. & Dir., Arts of the Americas Inst., Univ. of New Mexico)
Apr. 9, 2003 Globalization and Films: A Director's Perspective Euzhan Palcy (Film Producer & Director)
Apr. 10, 2003 Scholar's Convocation: Globalization, Trade and the Environment Problems and Opportunities Jason Clay (Senior Fellow & Acting VP, Center for Conservation Innovation, World Wildlife Fund)
Fighting Frankenfoods: A Global Challenge to a Globalizing Food Industry Rachel Schurman (Asst. Prof., Depts. of Sociology and Human & Community Development, Univ. of Illinois)
Film: A Dry White Season (Co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies and Cultural Films)
Apr. 15, 2003 Summer Internship Colloquium: Policy Making and A Journalistic Point of View in France Ludivine Laurent '03 (Le Monde Diplomatique / DMI Associates)
Apr. 21, 2003 Survival: My Odyssey Charlene Schiff (Holocaust Survivor)
Apr. 28 - May 1, 2003 The War in Iraq: How Damaging to the Trans-Atlantic Relationship?
Multilateral Institutions: What Future for NATO, the EU and the UN?
Informal Discussion: German-American Relations
Constanze Stelzenmuller, German Marshall Fund Visiting Fellow (Defense & Security Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg, Germany)