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Levitt Speaker Series 2008-2009
Sustainability: Environment, Health, and Poverty
Fall 2008
Environmental Justice and Sustainability Panel
A panel discussion co-sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project titled "Environmental Justice and Sustainability" will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 4:10 p.m. in the K-J auditorium. A reception will follow in the auditorium. Panelists will include Professor of Economics Erol Balkan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Joyce Barry, Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo and Professor of Biology Ernest Williams. The panel will be moderated by Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen.
The Levitt Center will be sponsoring a panel discussion on "Sustainability: Market Solutions" on October 2nd at 7:30 p.m. in the K-J Auditorium. Panelists include Charter Trustee Rich Bernstein '80, Bob Fryklund '80, Hamilton faculty members Associate Professor of Economics Julio Videras and Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Levitt Center's Sustainability Program Ann Owen as moderator.
The Levitt Center will be sponsoring "The Financial Crisis: A Faculty Panel" on October 23rd at 7:30 pm in the Science Auditorium. Panelists include Professors Ann Owen, Alan Cafruny, Jim Bradfield, and Erol Balkan. Jeff Pliskin will serve as moderator.
 Kenneth Roberts of Cornell University will discuss "Why Latin America is Turning Left" on October 28th at 7:00 pm in the KJ Auditorium. This lecture is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Committee, with funding from the Levitt Center and Dean of Faculty. Roberts is the author of Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Stanford University Press, 1998), along with a forthcoming manuscript from Cambridge University Press on the transformation of party systems in Latin America's neoliberal era. Bio
 Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, will present a lecture on November 18th at 7:30 pm. According to her website www.majoracartergroup.com, Dr. Carter simultaneously addresses public health, poverty alleviation, and climate change as one of the nation's pioneers in successful green-collar job training and placement systems. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 to achieve environmental justice through economically sustainable projects informed by community needs. Her work has been noted in numerous books; celebrated with awards from the National Audubon Society, the EPA, the NRDC, and the AIA among many others. She is a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, one of Essence Magazine's 25 Most Influential African-Americans in 2007, one of the NY Post's Most Influential NYC Women for the past two years, a board member of the Widerness Society, and recording a special national public radio series called "The Promised Land" for 2009 release. This event is co-sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project and the Kirkland Endowment.
 Michael Mathres '96, Director of Climate Capital Network, will discuss carbon trading on November 11th at 4:10 p.m. The title of Mathres' talk is "The Credit & Climate Crisis. What the new American President should do or: how to kick-start the Third Industrial Revolution." In 2006, Michael was responsible for Climate Change Now, the first renewable energy switching tool, supported by UNEP, European Environment Agency, Ben & Jerry's & Aveda. In 2004, he founded Susten8, (dubbed by the Financial Times as the 'Green First Tuesday'), a network of more than 2'000 entrepreneurs and investors in the sustainability sector, that organised the first climate change conference in London. Bio
Spring 2009
 William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-Director of NYU's Development Research Institute, will give a lecture on April 23rd at 7:30 pm in the Chapel. Easterly is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and previously spent sixteen years as a Research Economist at the World Bank. He is the author of The White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin, 2006), The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT, 2001), 3 other co-edited books, and 59 articles in refereed economics journals. Bio
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