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We wish to thank all the participants for their contribution to the success of the course

See course highlights >>here<<


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Course leader and organizer:
May Thorseth, Professor, Philosophy Department,
Leader of
Globalization Program focus area Intercultural Dynamics: Communication, Responsibility and Development, NTNU

Co-organizer:
Allen Alvarez, Postdoc,
Philosophy Department, NTNU

COURSE DESCRIPTION COURSE READINGS

COURSE SCHEDULE
1st Week, 5 - 9 Sept
COURSE SCHEDULE
2nd Week, 12 - 16 Sept

Week 1 (September 5 - 9, 2011):  Sessions 1 – 10
(click on meeting place to see campus map)

Monday, 5 September 2011 – DAY 1
SVT Faculty Meeting Room 1401, Building 1, Level 4, Dragvoll Campus

10.15 – 12.00    Session 1
10:15 10:45 - May Thorseth and Allen Alvarez - Introduction to the course and presentation of participants
11:00 12:00 - Torbjørn L. Knutsen - Naturalist versus constructivist approaches

12.00 – 13:00    LUNCH BREAK

13.00 – 15.15    Session 2 
13:00 14:00 - Torbjørn L. Knutsen - Communications revolution and interdependence: basic themes of globalization before 1900s
- short break (15 mins.) -
14:15 15:15 - Torbjørn L. Knutsen Globalization after World War II

Tuesday, 6 September 2011– DAY 2
D112, Room 7335, Building 7, Level 3, Dragvoll Campus


09.00 – 12
.15    Session 3 - Jan Aart Scholte
09:00 10:30 - Defining Globalization
- short break (15 minutes) -
10:45 12:15 - Explaining Globalization

12.15
– 13:15    LUNCH BREAK

13.15 – 16
.30    Session 4 - Jan Aart Scholte
13:15 14:45 - Assessing Globalization
- short break (15 mins.) -
15:00 16:00 - Enacting Globalization

Wednesday, 7 September 2011– DAY 3
D137, Room 12469, Building 12, Level 4, Dragvoll Campus

10.00 – 12
.00    Session 5 – Indra de Soysa
10:00 11:00 - Quantitative research on globalization
11:00 12:00 - ICTs and political repression

12.00 – 13:00    LUNCH BREAK

13.00 – 15.00    Session 6 - Tanja Ellingsen - Globalization, Culture and Conflict:
                                                                  Theoretical and Quantitative Approaches

Thursday, 8 September 2011– DAY 4

Moning session:
EL2, Room G212, 2. floor, Old Electrical Engineering Building, Gløshaugen Campus

10.00 – 12.00    Session 7 - Thomas Pogge - What is global justice?

12.00
– 13:00    LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon session: HF Conference Room 7, Room 2519, Building 2, Level 5, Dragvoll Campus

13.00 - 15.00    Session 8 - Thomas Pogge - Commentary session on paper proposals of PhD students

Course Dinner at 19
.00 pm (place to be announced)

Friday, 9 September 2011– DAY 5
Auditorium D3, Room 2303, Building 2, Level 3, Dragvoll Campus

10.00 – 12
.00    Session 9 – Thomas Pogge - Moral universalism and global economic justice

12.00 – 13:00    LUNCH BREAK

13.00 - 15
.00    Session 10 – Thomas Pogge - Eradicating systemic poverty: brief for a global resources dividend

Weekend break (Saturday and Sunday, 10 – 11 September 2011)
This course is brought to you by the NTNU Globalization Research Program

Last updated 31.08.2011 by Allen Alvarez