Global Issues Colloquium

Magruder Hall 2001
Thursdays, 7:00 pm

January 31
Immigration: Milan’s Story. Truman State University students in Marc Becker’s JINS seminar on Race, Class, and Gender in Latin America during the fall 2007 semester interviewed both recent and long-term residents of Milan to examine issues and concerns facing the community. Students will present the results of their study.

February 28
Why the U.S. Needs an Economic Miracle. Dr. Siegfried Sutterlin, emeritus history faculty member from Indian Hills Community College, offers a summary and evaluation of the current state of the U.S. economy. He discusses the historical elements and policies that caused current economic conditions in America.

March 27
Off-campus presenter, Dr. Hector Avalos (Iowa State), whose areas of expertise include U.S. Latino/a Religion and Literature and also Religion and Violence, presents Rethinking Religious Violence: A New Theory for An Old Problem. Avalos outlines a new theory for the role of religion in violence, which focuses on the idea that most violence results from the attempt to maintain or acquire resources that are deemed to be scarce. When religion causes violence, it is because it has created a new set of scarce resources. He illustrates the theory with examples in the Abrahamic religions from ancient to modern times.