With the generous support of the Lupton Renaissance funds and the Speakers
and Special Events Committee, I am pleased to announce a series of three
monthly lectures by noted scholars on aspects of globalization. All are
open to UTC and the public. Please mark these dates on your calendars now:
all lectures are on Monday nights at 7:00 P.M. in the Raccoon Mountain Room
of the Student Center.

January 26:     Open World: The Truth About Globalization (Ivan R. Dee, 2004)

                Philippe Legrain's new book will make its American appearance in January.
Legrain is a brilliant young English economist with
                       a gift for writing clearly about trade and cultural
issues. He has been trade and economics correspondent for The Economist,
                       and has published in the Financial Times, Wall
Street Journal, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, New Statesman, the Ecologist,
                       and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He graduated
from the London School of Economics and was special advisor to Mike
                Moore, director-general of the World Trade Organization. Legrain debunks
the many critics of globalization, but at the same
                       time offers a more nuanced view of how it can and
must be improved to protect the disadvantaged of the world.

February 16:    Is Big Mac the Big Threat?
                McDonald's and the Cultural Imperialism Debate

                James Watson is Professor of Anthropology and Fairbank Professor of
Chinese Society at Harvard University. Editor
                of Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Professor Watson argues
that local cultures accept and adopt
                American fast food, often in unintended ways. He is currently working on
GM soybean commodity flows from
                America (including Tennessee) to Asia. His talk will be accompanied by
slides.

March 22:       Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the
Twentieth-Century World (Norton 2000)

                J.R. McNeil is Professor of History at Georgetown University and a major
figure in environmental history. His first book was The
                       Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An
Environmental History, and recently he co-authored a short world history
with his
                eminent father, William McNeil. His book shows the global dimensions of
environmental problems...and solutions.



Richard Rice
Coordinator, Lupton Globalization Seminar