Gaining People, Losing Ground: Balancing Population with Resources

The winner of the prestigious 2003 United Nations Population Award, Werner Fornos has been described as the foremost spokesperson on global population issues. He served as president of the Population Institute, a Washington, DC based nonprofit public interest group from 1982 until late 2005.

Mr. Fornos is an internationally recognized expert on world population issues. He has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Maryland; The Order of Merit, the highest distinction granted by the German Government to a non-German citizen in recognition of humanitarian efforts; and the Service Above Self Award, the highest honor given by Rotary International. Fornos has been named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association and is a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. He is a life-time honorary member of the Washington, DC Rotary Club and an active member of the Woodstock, Virginia, Rotary Club. Mr. Fornos is among the 50 persons in the world inducted into the Earth Times Magazine Hall of Fame for their distinguished contributions in the last decade to environment and development.

Mr. Fornos makes frequent national television and radio appearances and contributes to newspaper and magazine articles, appearing in such publications as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of the book, “Gaining People, Losing Ground.”

This event is free and open to the public. Join the speaker for an informal cocktail hour from 6-7pm (no host bar) at the Siena Ballroom. Contact the Northern Nevada International Center for additional information, Dr. Carina Black via email at CLICK ME

Or, call us at (775) 784.7515 extension 221

The University of Nevada in Reno, Northern Nevada International Center World Affairs Council, and the Truckee Meadows Community College Distinguished Speakers Series, invite you to a lunch with Madame Jehan Sadat on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Located in the Peppermill’s Tuscany Ballroom, lunch will be provided, along with VIP seating for the evening talk at Truckee Meadows Community College. The Lunch will also include an opportunity to receive a signed copy of “My Hope for Peace” written by Madame Sadat, and an individual picture with the former first lady of Egypt.

To reserve your seat at the Lunch contact us via email at CLICK ME or Call us at 775-7847515, extension 221. Proceeds will be directed to support the distinguished speakers at Truckee Meadows Community College as well as the Educational Outreach Program at the Northern Nevada International Center.

Special Guest Speaker:
Dr. Catherine L. Mann

“The US in the World Economy: Is the US Trade Deficit Sustainable?”

• Wednesday, April 21, 2010 – 7pm
• UNR Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
• Sponsored by NNIC, Co-sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
• Free and open to the public

Mann is a faculty member of the International Business School at Brandeis. Previously, she had worked in policy institutions and think tanks in Washington DC, including the Institute for International Economics, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the President’s Council of Economic Advisors at the White House, and the World Bank. Her current research focuses on two related topics: information technology and services trade in global markets, and the US trade deficit and the dollar.

On the economic and policy implications of globalization of information technology and services, she authored Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology (2006) and Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer (2000); as well as numerous articles, including “Assessing the Potential Benefit of Trade Facilitation: A Global Perspective,” World Economy (2005) and “The US Current Account, New Economy Services, and Implications for Sustainability,” Review of International Economics (2004).

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Special Guest Speaker:
Dr. Richard Erb

NOTE: the venue of this presentation is the Siena Ballroom

“A Bankrupt World: The United States in a Volatile International Financial System”

• Wednesday, March 10, 2010 – 7pm
• University of Nevada Joe Student Union Theatre
• Sponsored by NNIC, Co-sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
• Free and open to the public

Erb is a Research Professor at The University of Montana and a Senior Fellow at the World Affairs Council of Montana. He also has served as an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Business Administration and has taught senior/graduate seminars on the European Union and on international money and financial flows. His research, lectures and publications focus on a wide range of economic and financial public policy subjects including the European Union and the international monetary and financial system.

Erb has held executive positions at the International Monetary Fund, serving as U. S. Executive Director on the IMF Executive Board from 1981 to 1984 and subsequently as the Deputy Managing Director for ten years. He also served in senior economic policy positions at the U.S. Treasury Department (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Developing Nations Finance, 1976-77), the White House (Staff Assistant to the President and Assistant Director of the Council on International Economic Policy, 1971-74), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Assistant to Governor Sherman Maisel, 1967-69).

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A VIP reception to meet the speaker will also be held from 6-7pm.  $15.00 per person.

Special Guest Speaker:
Nadia Hijab

“Human Rights in the Middle East: Israel and Palestine at the Crossroads”

• Wednesday, January 27, 2010 – 7pm
• UNR Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center Auditorium
• Sponsored by NNIC, Co-Sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
• Free and open to the public

Hijab is a prominent Palestinian-American analyst, author and former journalist who comments frequently on human rights and the Middle East, and the situation of the Palestinians in particular.

Hijab has also been a prolific writer, authoring over 100 academic articles on a variety of subjects. In 1988, her first book Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work was published by Cambridge University Press, and was followed in 1990 by Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel, published by I.B. Tauris. In 1989, Hijab moved to the United States, where she spent several years working for the United Nations Development Programme in New York City. After working for the United Nations until 2000, she worked as a consultant for a variety of organizations and institutions, including the World Bank, UNICEF, and Columbia University. In 2006, Hijab joined the Institute for Palestine Studies as a Senior Fellow. She remains and active media commentator, and has published opinion pieces in online journals, in addition to drafting policy notes on issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the Institute for Palestine Studies.

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Special Guest Speaker:
Barbara Crossette

Who Leads: The United States, the United Nations and Political Turbulence in the 21st Century

• Wednesday, November 18, 2009 – 7pm
• University of Nevada Joe Student Union Theatre
• Sponsored by NNIC, Co-Sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
• Free and open to the public

Barbara Crossette is a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and the author of several books on Asia, including So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995 and in paperback by Random House/Vintage Destinations in 1996, and a collection of travel essays about colonial resort towns that are still attracting visitors more than a century after their creation, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, published by Westview Press in 1998 and in paperback by Basic Books in 1999. In 2000, she wrote a survey of India and Indian-American relations, India: Old Civilization in a New World, for the Foreign Policy Association in New York. She is also the author of India Facing the 21st Century, published by Indiana University Press in 1993.

Ms. Crossette is now United Nations correspondent for The Nation and a freelance writer on foreign policy and international affairs. Most recently she was a co-author with George Perkovich of a section on India in the 2009 book Powers and Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World.

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Special Guest Speaker:
Madame Jehan Sadat

An Evening with Jehan Sadat: An Egyptian Woman’s Hopes for Peace

• Tuesday, October 27, 2009 – 7pm
• Truckee Meadows Community College

(co-sponsored by NNIC and ASUN Flipside)

(Note: $10 General Admission and $5 Student Admission)

Jehan Sadat is the wife of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat of Egypt from 1970 until 1981. She organized a movement to reform Egyptian Civil Rights Law and was successful in reforming victimizing divorce laws. She is an outspoken advocate for peace in the Middle East and worldwide. Sadat played a key role in reforming Egypt’s civil rights laws during the late 1970s. Often called “Jehan’s Laws” new statutes advanced by her granted women a variety of new rights, including those to alimony and custody of children in the event of divorce. After visiting wounded soldiers at the Suez front during the Six-Day War in 1967, she founded al Wafa’ Wa Amal (Faith and Hope) Rehabilitation Center, which offers disabled war veterans medical and rehabilitation services and vocational training. The center, is supported by donations from around the world and now serves visually impaired children and has a world-wide known music and choir band.

Jehan is a Senior fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park (where The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development has also been endowed). She also published an autobiography, A Woman of Egypt, as well as poetry in Arabic, under a pseudonym, and has written a second book, My Hope for Peace, released in March 2009.

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The cost of the dinner is $45 per person. Reservations necessary by September 15. Please contact Jack Logan at 624.6450 for additional information.

On September 17, 2009 the Northern Nevada International Center will be hosting the first event in their Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Speaker Series, in which African women leaders will discuss their roles in the judiciary system and politics.

There will be 11 women from Chad, Djibouti, Gabon, Mali, Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, and Togo here to discuss their stories. There will even be an opportunity to participate in a roundtable dialogue with each of the women.

This event will be held in the University of Nevada Reno Joe Crowley Student Union Ballroom C at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Contact International Center staff for additional information.

With funding from the Nevada Humanities Committee, UNR’s Political Science Department and the Associated Students at UNR, the International Center is pleased to present a Rising Powers Series with speakers on China, India and Russia over the course of the next few months. Highly regarded experts in their respective fields brought to us by the World Affairs Council will discuss the notion of a possible seachange in the way the world works, and how US foreign policy might adapt to these changes.

In this series, we proudly present the following presentation:

RISING POWERS – RUSSIA

• When: Wednesday, April 22 @ 7pm
• Where: Matheson-IGT Knowledge Center Auditorium (map/driving directions – it’s the lower of the the two markers placed in the center of the map)
• Who: Steve Levine, foreign affairs correspondent for Business Week magazine

Steve Levine covers foreign affairs for Business Week. He previously was correspondent for Central Asia and the Caucasus for the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for 11 years. His first book, The Oil and the Glory, a history of the former Soviet Union through the lens of oil, was published in October 2007. Putin’s Labyrinth, his new book, profiles Russia through the lives and deaths of six Russians. It was released in June 2008.

This event is free and open to the public.

Local community experts will join in a discussion immediately after the speakers’ presentations.

For additional information: contact us via CLICK ME

Additional sponsors for this series include the University of Nevada, Reno Political Science Department, ASUN, and the Nevada Humanities Committee. This program is made possible in part by a grant from Nevada Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

ASUN supports providing equal access to all programs for people with disabilities. Reasonable efforts will be made to provide accommodations to people with disabilities attending the event. Please call (775) 784-6589 as soon as possible to arrange for appropriate accommodations.