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2009-2010 Certificate Talks
Fall 2009
- Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 6:00-7:30, Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium
UCI Olive Tree Initiative
Appreciating Narratives: Discovering Dialogue in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Diversity; International
- Thursday, October 15, 2009, 3:30-5:00, SSPA 1100
The International Studies Public Forum
presents
Reza Aslan (University of California, Riverside)
The Future of US Iran Relations
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
International
- Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 3:30-5:00, SSPB 1208
The Anthropology Colloquium Series presents
Isaac William Martin (University of California, San Diego)
Bankers into Populists: The Texas Tax Clubs and the Mellon Plan, 1924-1928
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Planning and Human Services
- Thursday, October 22, 2009, 3:30-5:00, SSPA 1100
The International Studies Public Forum
presents
Barbara Walter (University of California San Diego)
Does Cheap Talk Matter? An Experimental Approach
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
International
- Monday, October 26, 2009, 12:00-2:00, SSL 140
Public Health Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Department of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Fred Burkle, MD, MPH ( Harvard School of Public Health )
Public Health Emergencies: The Common Thread
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Planning and Human Services
- Thursday, October 29, 2009, 2:00-3:20, Crystal Cove Auditorium
Center for the Study of Democracy presents
Edmund "Jerry" Brown Jr. (California Attorney General and former two-term Governor (1975-83))
Brown will discuss his more than 40-year career in politics and address questions regarding the future of the state of California
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Diversity; Planning and Human Services
- Friday, October 30, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Eric Anderson (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
Inclusive Masculinities: Declining Homohysteria and Changing Gendered Behaviors among University Men
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Diversity
- Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 10:30-12:00, Doheny Beach conference rooms A&B
The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) presents:
Chair and discussant: Paul Dourish (Professor of informatics)
Traditional money management
-Mani Nandhi, Centre for Microfinance - Chennai, India: The Urban Poor and their Money
-Syed Aiman Raza, Shia Degree College - Lucknow, India: Network Linkages and Money Management: An Anthropological Purview of the Beesi Network amongst the Urban Poor Muslims in Old City Area of Lucknow, India
- Magdalena Villarreal, CIESAS- Tlalpan, Mexico; Maria Eugenia Santana, Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas - Chiapas, Mexico: Analysis of Financial practices among Families in Two Cities Indigenous to the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Diversity; International; Planning and Human Services
** Please RSVP at imtfi@uci.edu or call (949) 824-2284 **
- Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 1:00-2:30, Doheny Beach conference rooms A&B
The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) presents:
Chair and discussant: Mohammed Mohammed (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Existing indigenous money practices
- Kenneth Omeje, United States International University - Nairobi, Kenya: Borrowing from the Gods: Oracular Deities as Traditional Sources of Credit
among the Igbo of Nigeria
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Thanuja Mummidi, French Institute of Pondicherry - Pondicherry, India: Forms of Money: An Inquiry into the Processes of Use and Adaptation among the Konda Reddis of South India
- Svetlana Tyukhteneva, Ethnoconsulting Ltd. - Moscow, Russia: Yesterday’s Nomads and Modern Money
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Diversity; International; Planning and Human Services
** Please RSVP at imtfi@uci.edu or call (949) 824-2284 **
- Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 3:00-4:30, Doheny Beach conference rooms A&B
The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) presents:
Chair and discussant: Jan Chipchase (Nokia Design)
Impact of m-banking and ICTs
- Sirimevan S. Colombage, The Open University of Sri Lanka - Nawala, Nugegoda: The Impact of New Technology on the Use of Money as a Means of Spending, Saving and Storing by the Poor: A Case Study of Sri Lanka
- Beatrice Magembe and Alice Shemi, University of Botswana - Gabarone, Botswana: A Study of Money and Financial Services and the Impact of ICTs among Poor Communities in Developing Countries: The Case of Botswana
- Francis Wambalaba, Akosa Wambalaba, Philip Machoka, United States International University - Nairobi, Kenya: E-money for Enhancing MDGs at Bottom of the Pyramid: A Case Study for M-Banking in Kenya
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Diversity; International; Planning and Human Services
** Please RSVP at imtfi@uci.edu or call (949) 824-2284 **
- Thursday, November 5, 2009, 9:00-10:30, Doheny Beach conference rooms A&B
The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) presents:
Chair and discussant: Scott Mainwaring (Intel Research)
Multiple currencies and local money systems
- Marco Crocco, Federal University of Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Local Money Systems: Financial Inclusion and Reduction of Poverty
- Caroline Schuster, University of Chicago - Chicago, IL: Making Good Money: Microcredit, Commercial Financing, and Social Regulation in Paraguay’s Tri-Border Area
- Mrinalini Tankha, Brandeis University - Waltham, MA: Cubanos Convertibles: Meanings of Multiple Currencies in Cuba
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Diversity; International; Planning and Human Services
** Please RSVP at imtfi@uci.edu or call (949) 824-2284 **
- Thursday, November 5, 2009, 11:00-12:30, Doheny Beach conference rooms A&B
The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) presents:
Chair: Douglas Sabo (Visa Inc.)
D
iscussant: Michael Ferguson (Microfinance Opportunities)
Microfinance and technology
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Crystal Murphy Morgan, University of California, Irvine: Tabula Rasa? Conceptions of Microfinance in Juba, Sudan
- Anke Schwittay and Paul Braund, RiOS Institute - Berkeley, CA: ‘Democratizing Capital:’ Digital Lending Networks, Mobile Technologies and
Women’s Solidarity Groups in Chiapas, Mexico
- Mark Pickens, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP): Financial Inclusion via Branchless Banking: What do we know about low-income consumers so far
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Diversity; International; Planning and Human Services
** Please RSVP at imtfi@uci.edu or call (949) 824-2284 **
- Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:30-3:00, Doheny Beach conference rooms A&B
The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) presents:
Chair and discussant: Wendy March (Intel Research)
Alternative methods of managing finance and protection against risk
- Melissa Cliver, Financial Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) - Montreal, Quebec: Follow the Bean: Navigating Value Exchange and Vulnerability with Farmers and their stakeholders
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Harsha de Silva, LIRNEasia - Columbo, Sri Lanka: A Study on M-finance and Consumption Smoothening among the Poor with Irregular Income Streams
- Catur Sugiyanto, Sri Yani Kusumastuti, and Duddy Donna, Universitas Gadja Mada - Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Managing Risks: What Poor Households in Yogyakarta do to smooth their consumption?
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Diversity; International; Planning and Human Services
** Please RSVP at imtfi@uci.edu or call (949) 824-2284 **
- Friday, November 6, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Ted Gerber(University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Russian women on family formation, prostitution, and sexual harassment: results of a recent survey
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Diversity; Planning and Human Services
- Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:00-5:00, SSPA 2112
The Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences colloquium series presents:
Andrew Noymer (Assistant Professor of Sociology)
Do Social Gatherings Predict Influenza Mortality?
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Planning and Human Services
- Friday, November 13, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Christian Welzel (Jacobs University, Germany)
The Human Empowerment Framework as a Guide to Analyze Social Change
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Business, Economy and Society; Planning and Human Services
- Thursday, November 19, 2009, 3:30-5:00, SSPA 1100
The International Studies Public Forum (ISPF) presents, in cooperation with the Center for International Education (CIE):
Dawn Nakagawa (Executive Vice President/ Pacific Council on
International Policy), Elizabeth Burrell (Program Director/ American Academy of Diplomacy), Laura Tarre (Development Associate/ Grameen Foundation)
Careers in International Relations
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
International
- Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Gilda Ochoa (Pomona College)
(Re)Framing the Gap: Deconstructing Hegemonic Discourses of Race and Class in a Southern California High School
This talk satisfies partial event requirement for the following certificate(s):
Diversity; Planning and Human Services
Winter 2010
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