Joint Area Centers Symposium

Cities and Inequalities in a Transnational World

Series: Joint Area Centers Symposium
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Dates: Thursday, 1 March 2012 through Saturday, 3 March 2012

For the first time in human history most people live in cities and virtually all of the world’s population growth is occurring in urban areas. Growing urbanization, inequalities of access to improved water, sanitation, health, education and housing, and migration are interconnected, and in complex ways both cause and reflect the global restructuring of production and social reproduction.

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A New Green Revolution? Meeting Global Food and Energy Demands

Series: Joint Area Centers Symposium
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study; Sustainable Development
Dates: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 through Friday, 6 March 2009
See also: http://www.ciber.uiuc.edu/events/programs/jacs/2009/index.html#

Organized by the National Resource Centers for Area Studies in partnership with the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES), the focus of the upcoming annual campus symposium is global food and agricultural issues, including trends in food and energy demands, scientific advances in agricultural technology, plant and animal genomics and their impact on society.

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Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration

Series: Joint Area Centers Symposium
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Dates: Thursday, 23 February 2006 through Saturday, 25 February 2006
See also: /conference-criminal-trafficking-and-slavery

JACS 2006 offers streaming videos, PowerPoint presentations and electronic versions of papers presented at the conference.

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