As part of the Ford Institute’s Spring 2015 Speaker Series, guest lecturers Daniel W. Bromley and Susan Martin will be on campus to discuss the implications of climate change at 10 a.m., Monday, Feb. 9 in Posvar Hall room 3011.

As part of the Ford Institute’s Spring 2015 Speaker Series, guest lecturers Geoffrey Dabelko and Peter Walker will be on campus to discuss the implications of climate change.

Geoffrey Dabelko, Professor and Director of Environmental Studies, Ohio University Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs. Dr. Dabelko will discuss conflict and cooperation potential from climate change impacts and responses including peacebuilding interventions that connect anti-poverty, climate adaptation, and dispute resolution objectives.

The symposium will highlight student research on the complex array of social forces that characterize our increasingly interconnected world and will provide networking for students and faculty who are shaping how we approach these important topics and/or will provide leadership in the study of global issues in the future.

Why is there a drop in gas prices? What or who is behind it?What is the time frame and what should we expect in the future? How does it impacts policies in the US, Middle East, Russia and Nigeria?

Panel Presenters:
• Laura Paler, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
• Daniel Berkowitz, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
• Buba Misawa, Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington and Jefferson College

K-16 Educators are invited to attend the CERIS spring 2015 book discussion. Dr. Luke Peterson of the University of Pittsburgh will facilitate discussion. Registration is required. Educators can participate in person or online. Dinner, parking, and the book will be provided.

The program will focus on our changing identities in a globalized world. We will hear from student groups and faculty who work on issues of global identities, like gender empowerment, immigration, and refugees. The Global Studies Center will also present new funding opportunities for students. This is a great opportunity to network with other students that know there is a big world out there. Stop by room 4217 Posvar Hall and bring a friend! Good food, good coffee, and good conversation will be provided.

The Muslims in the Global Context series offers the opportunity to examine the factors and trends that are having major impacts on these diverse regions and their relationships with other world regions and countries. The mini-courses consist of presentations on topics of critical importance to the understanding of Muslims in diverse regions of the world. In addition to attendance at all lectures, students enrolled for credit are required to develop and write a research paper on one of the themes of the mini-course and answer reflection prompts during the course.

A 5-part video dialogue series with international and local leaders of NGOs highlighting effective mobilization efforts to protect themselves from the effects of global warming and to promote climate justice. The series will identify how climate change and environmental problems disproportionately affect already-vulnerable communities, the limitations of government, UN-based, "free-market," or technological attempts to address climate change, and the resulting rise of pupular movements that promote more sustainable futures and all forms of climate and environmental justice.

Over the past two decades the profession of law within China has undergone tremendous change. China’s ascension to the World Trade Organization, massive foreign investment, and an increasingly cosmopolitan middle class have forced both the central government in Beijing and the country’s practicing attorneys to grapple with new clientele, new areas of practice, and an increasingly nuanced popular response to legal issues.