The World Beyond the Headlines — Winter 2010

The World Beyond the Headlines series is a collaborative project of the University of Chicago Center for International Studies, the International House Global Voices Program, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and is funded in part by the McCormick Foundation. Its aim is to bring scholars and journalists together to consider major international issues and how they are covered in the media.

Speakers at past World Beyond the Headlines events include former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, journalists William Langewiesche and James Fallows, economist Jeffrey Sachs, and South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat.

The current schedule is posted quarterly here on the CIS website. Questions, comments, or suggestions for future World Beyond the Headlines events can be sent to jbender@uchicago.edu.

  • International House Home Room, 1414 E. 59th St.Thursday, February 4, 2010 • 6:00 PM

    The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa

    Deborah Brautigam

  • International House Assembly Hall, 1414 E. 59th St.Thursday, February 18, 2010 • 6:00 PM

    Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

    Joseph Stiglitz

    The current global financial crisis carries a “made in America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Drawing on his academic expertise, his years spent shaping policy in the Clinton administration and at the World Bank, and his more recent role as head of a UN Commission charged with reforming the global financial system, Stiglitz then outlines a way forward building on ideas that he has championed his entire career: restoring the balance between markets and government; addressing the inequalities of the global financial system; and demanding more good ideas (and less ideology) from economists. Freefall combines an enthralling account of the current crisis with a bracing discussion of the broader economic issues at stake.

    Joseph E. Stiglitz received the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. He is the author of Making Globalization Work, Globalization and Its Discontents, and The Three Trillion Dollar War (with Linda Bilmes). He teaches at Columbia University.

  • International House Home Room, 1414 E. 59th St.Wednesday, March 3, 2010 • 6:00 PM

    Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

    Roger Thurow & Scott Kilman

  • International House Home Room, 1414 E. 59th St.Tuesday, March 9, 2010 • 6:00 PM

    Speaking on Afghanistan

    Gilles Dorronsoro

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