2011 News Archive

Dr. Jeffrey Sommers was a featured panelist discussing global economics and politics on RT’s CrossTalk for their year-end wrap up and New Year trends programs.

Graduate student Majeed Rahman was a participant at this year’s first regional conference of the Milwaukee Area Time Exchange, a community-based organization committed to exchanging ideas that benefits the community. Read more.

Jeffrey Sommers was the Conference Chair and a Featured Speaker for the 2011 Asia Business & Management Conference of the International Academic Forum held in Osaka, Japan on November 12th and 13th. His presentation title was: “Origins of our Global Economic Crisis: Causes and Perspectives from the past 500, 50, & 5 Years.”

Dr. Anika Wilson presented her research at “People, Places, and Stories,” an interdisciplinary and international conference hosted by Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden, Sept. 28-30.

Dr. Jeffrey Sommers has been invited to this year’s Global Policy Forum meeting in Yaroslavl, Russia on Sept. 7- 8, 2011.

Professor Emeritus Bellegarde-Smith spoke at the University of the West Indies on June 9, 2011. Lecture: Philosophical and Identity Constructions of an Elite: Haiti in the 19th and Early 20th Century. Event Poster