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Subject: Fw: REMINDER: Globalization Seminar - 18 September - Peter Waterman
From: "Wanda Radowski" <mlirls(a)rci.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, September 15, 2006 12:35 pm
To: "McElroy, Eugene" <sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:34 PM
Subject: REMINDER: Globalization Seminar - 18 September - Peter Waterman
> The University Seminar (#671) on Globalization, Labor and Popular
> Struggles is
> pleased to announce our September meeting with a very special guest.
>
> DATE: Monday 18 September, 7:15 p.m. (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.)
>
> TITLE: "New Contributions to a Global Labour and Social Movement
> Dialogue"
>
> SPEAKER: Peter Waterman
>
> PLACE: Faculty House, Columbia University
>
> Peter Waterman, who has written extensively on issues facing international
> labor unions, has recently returned from South Africa where he
> participated in a dialogue on the global labor movement and global social
> movement. We hope to review and discuss how this noted scholar perceives
> the actual and potential interactions of these two movements.
>
> Peter Waterman was born in London in 1936. He worked as a journalist in
> Prague and in London as a teenager. He studied labour history at Ruskin
> College and Oxford University. From 1965 to 1969, he worked for the World
> Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) in Prague as a labour education officer
> for English-speaking Africa. He took a Master's degree in West African
> Studies at the University of Birmingham. In 1972 Waterman became a
> researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in
> The Hague on unions, social movements and internationalism. He has done
> extensive work on labor, national and international social movements in
> India, South Africa and Latin America. He was founder, editor and
> publisher of the Newsletter of International Labour Studies 1978-1990. In
> the 1990s Waterman was involved in the Global Solidarity Dialogue and,
> since opting for early retirement in 1998, has been thoroughly involved in
> the World Social Forum and the global justice and solidarity movement more
> generally.
>
> A copy of Waterman's Letter to Participants in the 2006 Durban Dialogue is
> attached in an MSWord file for seminar members to puruse in advance of the
> seminar.
>
> -----
>
> In connection with the 18 September meeting, please reply to Matt Winters
> whether you plan to join us for dinner before the seminar. You may e-mail
> him at msw22(a)columbia.edu.
>
> -----
>
> I will attend the dinner on 18 September Yes___ No___
> I will attend the seminar on 18 September Yes___ No___
>
> ****RSVP by TODAY, Thursday 14 September ****
>
> -----
>
> Dinner will be at the Columbia University Faculty House at 6:00 p.m.
> Please pay for your dinner at the desk in the lobby of Faculty House when
> you arrive for dinner. For those having dinner, we will meet at 6:00 at
> the table reserved for the seminar on the fourth floor of Faculty House,
> which is located on Columbia's East Campus behind the School of
> International Affairs and the Law School. The street address is 400 West
> 117th Street, but the easiest approach is through the gates on the north
> side of 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive.
>
> The seminar will be held from 7:15-9 p.m. in a room to be announced in
> Faculty House. For those not having dinner, please look for a sign in the
> lobby and join us at 7:15 p.m.
>
> -----
>
> Thank you,
>
> David Bensman
> Hank Frundt
> Seminar Co-Chairs
--
Eugene McElroy
Rutgers University
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