Susan George, author of a dozen books, associate director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and a driving intellectual force in the social justice movement, will give a free public lecture Friday, Oct. 29, at 3:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
The Transnational Institute is a decentralized fellowship of scholars throughout the world who contribute to social justice and are active in social issues in their own countries.
The title of George's talk is "'Who Are These People Anyway?' The Global Justice Movement from Pre-Seattle to the Present." She also will give an international nutrition seminar Oct. 28 at 12:20 p.m. in 100 Savage Hall, to which the public also is invited. Her visit is sponsored by the University Lectures Committee, Polson Institute for Global Development, Society for the Humanities and Cornell Forum for Justice and Peace.
"Susan George has been an outstanding leader in the social justice movement over the last three decades," said Michael Latham, Graduate School professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. "Like no other person, she has also consistently and forcefully articulated how actions and policies of northern countries can contribute to hunger, poverty, environmental degradation and even deaths in the non-industrialized countries of the south."
George was a founding member of the World Social Forum, which meets every year as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and is vice president of the France-based Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens, which lobbies for world financial reform. Her current work concerns globalization, particularly World Trade Organization policies, international financial institutions and north-south relations.
George is the author of How the Other Half Dies, A Fate Worse than Debt and Another World is Possible if ....
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