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Columns::February 18, 2002
Senior VP Costello will step down March 1
State legislator will give Black History Month lecture
The British are coming: Oxford Union to debate team of UGA students
Holiday schedule remains unchanged
Public relations work wins awards
Taking the initiative
What went wrong: Accounting expert discusses accountability issues at Enron, Arthur Andersen
Campus Closeup
Kudos
Administrative changes
Bug’s-eye view
Under construction
Campus News
International symposium examines change in Europe
By Beth Roberts
beth@uga.edu
UGA’s Center for Humanities and Arts will sponsor an international symposium on Feb. 20-22 on “Globalization and Change
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in Europe.” It is the eighth in the CHA Program for Global Understanding. Approximately 20 distinguished artists, scholars and diplomats will come to Masters Hall in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education to join in unrehearsed discussions about the effect of globalization on the economies of Europe, on cultural identities, and on the arts.
Ambassador Kai Eide, ambassador and permanent representative of Norway to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, will give the keynote address at 8 p.m. on Feb. 20. Eide was special representative of the secretary-general of the United Nations and head of the U.N. mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997 and 1998. He chaired the OSCE Permanent Council in 1999. Gary Bertsch, director of UGA’s Center for International Trade and Security and University Professor of Political Science, and Betty Jean Craige, director of the Center for Humanities and Arts and University Professor of Comparative Literature, co-chaired the program committee for this year’s symposium. Milton Masciadri, professor of music, planned the musical event and will take part in it.
“The recent terrorist attack upon the United States gave American universities and colleges an urgent incentive to provide in-depth education to their academic communities and to their larger constituencies about other regions of the world,” says Craige. “It forced upon us the recognition that our planet’s diverse peoples are all interconnected in our global society and that if we are ever to achieve more peaceful interactions we need to understand one another better.”
The Thursday morning events of the symposium will include an “Ambassadors’ Roundtable” in which ambassadors to the United States and to the United Nations discuss the transformation of Europe brought about by globalization. The participants will include Ulrik Federspiel, Denmark; Ferdinando Salleo, Italy; and Jeno C.A. Staehelin, Switzerland.
An afternoon roundtable discussion will focus on the economic globalization of Europe. Markus Crepaz of UGA will be moderator. The panelists will be Paulette Kurzer, University of Arizona; Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia; and Beverly Crawford, University of California, Berkeley.
Italian composer Giovanni Luisi will present a musical performance at 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. Luisi--composer, pianist and choir conductor--is senior sound supervisor for Sermi Film in Italy. In 1980, he helped found the Suono-Immagine Group for research into relationships between sounds and images in cinema. He served as musical director for the Italian edition of more than 500 songs for television programs by National Geographic, Disney, and Warner Brothers.
Ambassador George Moose, representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations, will speak at 8 p.m. on Thursday. Moose held the position of assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1993 through 1997 and earlier served as ambassador from the United States to the Republic of Senegal and to the Republic of Benin.
Globalization and the arts will be the topic under discussion in the first session Feb. 22. Participants will be Harvey Feigenbaum of George Washington University, Italian composer Giovanni Luisi, William Paulson of the University of Michigan and Belgian sculptor Olivier Strebelle. Masciadri will serve as moderator.
The final session, at 10:45 a.m. Feb. 22, will look at European identities in this age of globalization. Christopher Allen of UGA will moderate the discussion among Beverly Crawford and Patricia Goff, University of Utah; Wolf Gruner, University of Rostock, Germany; and Jim Hollifield, Southern Methodist University.
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