VIULectures 1|09

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Venice International University continues to focus on Globalization and its social, economic and environmental implications with a lecture open to the public.

Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 5pm
When and Where did Globalization Begin?
David Northrup, Boston College

with discussant
Stefano Micelli
Dean of VIU, Professor of Economics and Business Management at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

David Northrup is Professor in History and African and African Diaspora Studies, at Boston College and teaches "The Worlds of Marco Polo: towards a History of Globalization" in the Spring 2009 VIU Semester Program. He will argue that useful perspectives about the world today can be gained by appreciating how long global convergences have been underway and how European imperial expansion was built on older Asian structures

Wednesday, 13 May, 2009, 5pm
From Poverty to Development. Chinese Economic Growth in a Historical Perspective
Bozhong Li, Tsinghua University

with discussant
Ignazio Musu, President of VIU TEN Center, Professor of Economics and Environmental Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Bozhong Li is Chairman of the Department of History of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, specialized in Chinese Economic History and Late Imperial Chinese History. China plays a key role on the new global financial arena. Venice International University invites Professor Li Bozhong to discuss and illustrate the economic development of the Asian superpower in a historical perspective, with reference to recent trends and environmental issues involved.

Podcasts of previous lecture series are available at http://www.univiu.org/viulectures

How to get to VIU

Venice International University
Isola di San Servolo,
30100 Venice, Italy
tel 041 2719 511
www.univiu.org

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