Events Archive

What is Behind the Recent Jump in Agricultural Commodity and Food Prices?

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Date of event: October 20, 2008 12:00pm

Professor Daniel Sumner, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

Blum Center Faculty Speaker Series (The Global Food Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities, Fall 2008)

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Citizen Activism and Global Poverty

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Date of event: October 13, 2008 5:30pm

Bobby Shriver, Co-Founder, The ONE Campaign
Co-sponsored by the Blum Center, International & Area Studies and the International House.

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Film and Social Media as Tools For Social Change

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Date of event: October 6, 2008 5:30pm

Jim Berk, CEO Participant Media Makers of An Inconvenient Truth, Syriana and many other award winning documentaries. Cosponsored by the Blum Center, International & Area Studies and the International House.

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Tata-Berkeley Student Symposium

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Date of event: September 19, 2008 12:00pm

The Blum Center has partnered with Tata, the largest privately held conglomerate in India, to provide students the opportunity to intern directly with community initiatives in India. A public symposium was held to highlight the amazing opportunities of this partnership. This event also featured Berkeley undergrads who participated in global practice experiences as part of the Blum Center's Global Poverty and Practice minor.
Sponsor: Blum Center and the Center for South Asia Studies.


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The Global Food Crisis: A World Development Report Perspective

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Date of event: September 15, 2008 12:00pm

Professor Alain de Janvry, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Blum Center Faculty Speaker Series (The Global Food Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities, Fall 2008)

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Can Democracy Afford to Neglect the Poor?

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Date of event: March 10, 2008 6:30pm

Alejandro Toledo, Ph.D., Global Center for Development and Democracy Alejandro Toledo, Ph.D., is the former president of Peru (2001–06) and the founder and current president of the Global Center for Development and Democracy which focuses on the interrelationship between poverty and inequality and the future of democracy. Sponsors: Blum Center, Center for Latin American Studies
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