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Extra
Credit Opportunities
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Various
groups on campus will organize events during the quarter which are
related to our course or to the study of religion in our world. You
are encouraged to attend, both as a citizen of the University and
as a student of religious studies this term.
You will receive extra credit if, in addition to attending the event,
you analyze and reflect on it in a 2-3 page paper. Introduce the speaker,
date, and title of the event in the first paragraph. In the body of
your paper, explore the speaker's career more fully (use links below)
and summarize and analyze the presentation. To do this successfully,
break out paragraphs that address the following questions:
- What has the speaker published, and/or with what organizations
is the the speaker affiliated?
- What were the central points of the presentation?
- What insights did the speaker offer?
- In what ways do the speaker's points relate to our course?
In the final paragraph of your paper, evaluate the speaker's presentation.
What did you appreciate most? What did you learn? Was there anything
that was problematic about the presentation, or any points you would
argue with? Why?
This paper should follow the formatting directions for a short assignment
available at Style
Sheet. The paper must be submitted within a week of the event.
The following events are eligible for extra credit in this class.
The list will be updated weekly, so check back in regularly. If you learn of any events that might be appropriate for extra credit, propose them to the professor beforehand for approval.
| Date |
Time |
Event |
September 25
Wednesday |
7:00
p.m. |
"How
Globalization Is Changing Our World," Thomas L. Friedman
Leavey Activities Center
Former New York Times Middle-East correspondent and three-time
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Friedman
is the keynote speaker in this year's University-sponsored Institute
on Globalization - Major Issues in Globalization. His
most recent books are The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding
Globalization (2000, listen to audio
clips in which Friedman explains the title) and Longitudes
and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11 (2002). Read
also one of his most recent columns,
"Globalization, Alive and Well," New York Times
Online, 22 September 2002. |
October 14
Monday |
7:00
p.m. |
"The
Case against Globalization," Jerry Mander
Mayer Theater
Mander is president and co-director of the International
Forum on Globalization, program director for the Foundation
for Deep Ecology, and has written (among other books) Four
Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), and
is co-editor with Edward Goldsmith of The Cast against the
Global Economy: And For a Turn toward the Local (1997). Part
of the "Major Issues in Globalization" speaker series
sponsored by the SCU
Institute on Globalization. |
October 16
Wednesday |
7:00
p.m. |
"Trembling
before G-d,"
Daly Science 206
This award-winning film, shown in conjunction with Dr. David
Pleins' Origins of Western Religions course, explores the dilemma
of gay and lesbian Jews in the Orthodox Jewish community. In
addition to the important ethical and religious issues the movie
raises, it will also provide some sense of life in general in
these communities, which will help you to understand the communities
you will read about for Monday, October 28's class. Click
on the title for access to the film's web site, reviews, and
resources. |
October 24
Thursday |
7:00
p.m. |
"The
Free Trade Debate," Douglas Irwin and Lori Wallach
Mayer Theater
Irwin
is a Dartmouth economist and author of Free Trade Under Fire
(2002). Wallach is the director of Public
Citizen's Global Trade Watch and and anti-globalization
activist. The two face off in the third of the "Major
Issues in Globalization" speaker series events, sponsored
by the SCU
Institute on Globalization and the Civil Society Institute. |
October 29
Tuesday |
7:00
p.m. |
"Globalization
and Poverty," Amartya Sen
Mayer Theater
This Cambridge scholar received the 1998
Nobel Prize in Economics and has published many works including
On Economic Inequality (2d ed. 1997). Part
of the "Major Issues in Globalization" speaker series
sponsored by the SCU
Institute on Globalization and the Department of Economics. |
October
30
Wednesday |
4:00
p.m. |
"People's
Globalization vs. Corporate Globalization," documentary
film Life and Debt, commentary and conversation with
Kevin Danaher
Sobrato Commons
Danaher
is a veteran human-rights activist and co-founder of Global
Exchange, a non-profit research, education, and action center
dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world. Part
of the "Globalization from Below" series sponsored
by the Unity RLC as part of the SCU
Institute on Globalization. |
November
5
Tuesday |
5:00
p.m. |
Student
Workshop on "Living with Conviction in a Globalizing Context,"
led by Fr. John Dear, S.J.
Benson Parlors
Dear is
a long-time peace activist and author of over 20 books on peace
and justice, most recently Living Peace: A Spirituality of
Contemplation and Action (2001) and with Daniel Berrigan
Jesus the Rebel: Bearer of God's Peace and Justice (2000). Sponsored
by the Arrupe Center for Community-Based Learning as part of
the SCU Institute
on Globalization. |
November
5
Tuesday |
7:30
p.m. |
"Globalization
and World Politics: The U.S. Role," Fr. J. Bryan Hehir
Mission Church
Hehir
is the former head of Harvard Divinity School and is currently
the Executive Director of Catholic Charities and Professor of
the Practice in Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School
and the Weatherhead Center of International Affairs, Harvard
University. He is a noted expert on Catholic social
ethics and international affairs. Part of the "Major
Issues in Globalization" speaker series sponsored by the
SCU Institute
on Globalization. |
November
6
Wednesday |
7:30
p.m. |
"Globalization:
Militarism and Nonviolence," Fr. John Dear, S.J.
Sobrato Commons
Dear is
a long-time peace activist and author of over 20 books on peace
and justice, most recently Living Peace: A Spirituality of
Contemplation and Action (2001) and with Daniel Berrigan
Jesus the Rebel: Bearer of God's Peace and Justice (2000). Sponsored
by the Bannan Center for Jesuit Education as part of the SCU
Institute on Globalization. |
November
7
Thursday |
4:30
p.m. |
"The
Criterion of the Faith that Does Justice," Michael Czerny,
S.J.
Mission Church
Czerny
is the Director of the Social Justice Secretariat at the Jesuit
Curia in Rome, and has recently been appointed coordinator of
the new African Jesuit AIDS Network. Part of the
"Major Issues in Globalization" speaker series and
the keynote for the conference, "Globalization as Seen
from the Developing World,"sponsored by the Bannan Center
for Jesuit Education and part of the SCU
Institute on Globalization. |
November
8
Friday |
9:00
a.m. and
2:00 p.m. |
Panel
discussions on "The Criterion of the Faith that Does
Justice" and "Globalization and Poverty"
Brass Rail, Benson
Public portions of
the conference, "Globalization as Seen from the Developing
World,"sponsored by the Bannan Center for Jesuit Education
and part of the SCU
Institute on Globalization.
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November
9
Saturday |
9:00
a.m. |
Panel
on "The Impact of Globalization on Culture"
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Public portion of the conference, "Globalization as Seen
from the Developing World,"sponsored by the Bannan Center
for Jesuit Education and part of the SCU
Institute on Globalization. |
November
14
Thursday |
5:30
p.m. |
"Universal
Principles for a Harmonious Globalization: Insights from Catholic
Social Teaching," Samuel Gregg
Brass Rail, Benson
Gregg is the Director of both Research and the Center for Economic
Personalism at the Acton
Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty (Grand Rapids,
MI), and author of several books, most recently Economic
Thinking for the Theologically Minded (2001) and Beyond
Romanticism: Questioning the Green Gospel (2000). His
article, "Globalization
and Insights of Catholic Social Teaching,"Markets
& Morality 4 (1 2001), is available online. Part
of the Civil Society Institute Lecture Series in conjunction
with the SCU
Institute on Globalization. |
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