IGERT Hosts Symposium on Development and Globalization

IGERT Hosts Symposium on Development and Globalization

On November 12th and 13th, the IGERT Program in International Development and Globalization held its first Interdisciplinary Symposium on Development and Globalization. Panels were assembled around the topics of Human Development, Financial Flows: Aids and Remittances, Trade and Development, Democracy and Social Movements, and Current Issues in Development. Among the panelists were social science, law, and business faculty from and beyond Columbia and the first cohort of IGERT fellows.

On the Democracy and Social Movements panel, political scientist Dana Fisher, who spoke on coalition development and social movement spillover in the era of repressive politics, and David Stark, who offered an in-depth look at the sequence analysis of network formation and foreign investment in Hungary from 1987-2001. Other ISERP affiliated panelists included Jeronimo Cortina, Rajeev Dehejia, Macartan Humphreys, Akbar Noman, Dan O'Flaherty, Shari Spiegel, and Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor and President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), the program mobilizes the resources of IPD, the Earth Institute, ISERP, and the schools of architecture, business, international and public affairs, law, and public health.