Our Next Seminar
(See the entire Spring 2011 schedule)
April 14 (Thursday) Canceled
Location: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Professor David Vogel, University of California at Berkeley
The Politics of Precaution: Comparing Trends in Consumer and Environmental Risk Regulation in Europe and the United States
Click here for Professor Vogel’s biography
Co-sponsored by: the Rethinking Regulation Project at the Kenan Institute for Ethics
The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, founded in 1997, is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together faculty and graduate students from across the social sciences, especially from political science, public policy, economics, sociology, and law. Our shared interest in this seminar is to gain a better understanding of the causes and consequences of recent global economic and socio-political changes; we are especially interested in how globalization affects the distribution of wealth and well being, as well as governance among and within nations.
Founded as the University Seminar on Globalization and Equity, Global Governance and Democracy, co-chaired by Tim Büthe (Duke, Political Science), Judith Kelley (Duke, Public Policy) and Layna Mosley (UNC, Political Science) is organized around a series of talks by domestic and international guest speakers whose work analyzes these issues from a social science perspective, broadly conceived.
Seminars are on Thursdays from 5:30 – 7:00 pm, each seminar will be followed by a short reception, allowing individual conversations with the speaker. We are pleased to invite the Duke and Triangle communities to join us for this series of public lectures.
