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Hamilton College's program on globalization engages students in a multi-disciplinary examination of the broad phenomenon of globalization, including its political, economic, social and cultural aspects.  The sophomore seminar cluster on globalization is sponsoring a series of lectures in April and May.

• Anwar Shaikh, professor of economics at New School University, presents, "Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade," also the title of his forthcoming book, on April 12, at 7 p.m. in Benedict 105.

Shaikh, born in Karachi, Pakistan, received a B.S.E from Princeton University.  Shaikh received his master's and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. He is the author of a forthcoming book Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade. Shaikh is associate editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics and co-authored Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

• Author, Journalist Alexander Cockburn presents, "Terror and Empire: The U.S. in the Middle East and the Third World," on April 26, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel.

Cockburn, one of America's well-known journalists, graduated from Oxford.  His current research is on U.S. foreign policy toward Iraq and Afghanistan. He was an editor at the Times Literary Supplement and The New Statesman and wrote on the press and politics for the Village Voice and The Nation.  He was a regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal in the '80s. He co-edits Counterpunch newsletter, and is the author of several books, including Corruptions of Empire, Al Gore: A User's Manual and the forthcoming book Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia (Verso Books, June 2004).  His exclusive column appears fortnightly on Antiwar.com.

• Loretta Napoleoni, author of Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, presents, "The New Economy of Terror: Tracing The Dollars Behind the Terror Networks," on April 30, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel.

An expert on global terrorism Loretta Napoleoni was a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.  As an economist Napoleoni worked for several banks and international organizations in Europe and the U.S. She is also a journalist and has worked as a foreign correspondent for several Italian financial papers. She has written novels, guide books in Italian and translated and edited books on terrorism; her most recent novel, Dossier Baghdad, is a financial thriller set during the Gulf War. She was among the few people to interview the Red Brigades in Italy after three decades of silence; this research became the topic of her PhD.

• Peter Singer, author of One World: the Ethics of Globaliztion (Yale University Press, 2002), presents, "Ethics for One World," on May 4, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel.

Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author of One World: the Ethics of Globaliztion (Yale University Press, 2002.) He is also the author of Animal Liberation, first published in 1975, and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement. His Practical Ethics is one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death received the 1995 National Book Council's Banjo Award for non-fiction.  Singer is the author of the major article on Ethics in the current edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and, with Helga Kuhse, co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Singer was also the founder of the International Association of Bioethics.

• Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights, presents, "Sweatshops and Child Labor in the Global Economy," on May 5, at 7 p.m. in Benedict 105.

Kernaghan, best known for exposing the use of child labor in the production of Wal-Mart's "Kathie Lee" clothing line, is the author of National Labor Committee reports documenting labor conditions and abuses in factories in Central America, China, Haiti, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.  His 1992 report, "Paying to Lose Our Jobs" documented the use of over $1.3 billion in U.S. tax dollars spent under the Reagan and Bush Administrations to build and promote Central American free trade zones and to help U.S. companies move offshore to take advantage of cheap labor, lack of labor regulation and a no-union environment.

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