Monthly Archive for July, 2010

The Crisis and the Euro

Published on July 31, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

By George Soros, in The New York Review of Books

I believe that misconceptions play a large role in shaping history, and the euro crisis is a case in point.

Let me start my analysis with the previous crisis, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. In the week following September 15, 2008, global financial markets actually broke down and by the end of the week they had to be put on artificial life support. The life support consisted of substituting sovereign credit—backed by the financial resources of the state—for the credit of financial institutions that had ceased to be acceptable to counterparties.

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African Outtake: From Diary of a Very Bad Year

Published on July 30, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From Keith Gessen, in n + 1

In the fall of 2007, after two Bear Stearns-owned hedge funds trading in subprime debt suddenly went bankrupt, I sat down with a friend of a friend who worked in finance to see if he could explain it to me. That conversation became the first in a series, which we began publishing at n+1. The conversations continued through the crisis and after, following the trajectory of one financier facing the hardest days he’d yet seen. This week HarperPerennial is publishing Diary of a Very Bad Year, the book that resulted from those conversations. We hope it’s a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the crisis. All this week on the site we’ll be featuring excerpts and outtakes from the book. —KG

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Fourth Annual Global Studies Conference

Published on July 27, 2010 in Conference and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Location and Date

The 2011 Global Studies Conference Conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 18-20 July. For more information and important conference updates, please visit www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

Call for Papers

If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, please click here. Once you are ready to submit your proposal, you can do so by going here. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.

Registration

Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, or to register for the 2011 Global Studies Conference, please follow this link.

Themes

This year’s special theme is Emerging Societies and Emancipation. Other themes include:

Theme 1: Economy
Theme 2: Power
Theme 3: Culture
Theme 4: Environment

For more information on our overall themes for the Global Studies Conference, please click here.

The Global Studies Journal, Volume 3, first issue available

Published on July 25, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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The first issue of Volume 3 of The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

Some of the papers included in Volume 3, Number 1:

Pension Headache Gone Global, but for Obama, Medicare Migraine is Particularly Worrisome by C. Fiifi Odoom.
How do New Immigration Policies Affect Immigrant Characteristics in Hong Kong? by Michael C. M. Ng.
Music Purchasing: Online vs. Conventional by Chiang-Nan Chao, Robert J. Mockler and Marc Gartenfeld.
Re-Imagining “Religion”: World Religions and the Non-“Religious” Context by William Acres.
Quality Assurance in the Assessment of Students Academic Performance in Nigerian Universities by Chris Chukwurah and Marcellinus U. Ojuah.
State Welfare Provisions and Cross-National Differences in Work Quality and Job Satisfaction by Jonathan H. Westover.
The Binding Power of Architecture by Faida Noori Salim.
“The World Trade Organization and the Special Case of Child Laborers in the Global Economy” by Richard J. Klonoski.
Intercultural Dialogue in Education: Theoretical Perspectives on Majority and Minority Relationships in Three Case Studies by Magdalena Herdoíza-Estévez.
International Education and Student Mobility: Curriculum Design and Delivery by Jennifer Martin and How Kee Ling.
Education for Interdependence: The University and the Global Citizen by Michael Karlberg.

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