WWU's Fairhaven College announces winter's World Issues Forum slate

January 11, 2010

Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies has announced the upcoming winter slate of presenters for its annual World Issues Forum, with subjects ranging from immigration reform to reproductive health and the community effects of hate crime.

The following forums are free and open to the public, and are from noon to 1:30 p.m. every Wednesday in the Fairhaven College Auditorium, unless noted otherwise:

  • Wednesday, Jan. 13
    • Presenter: Jorge-Alonso Chehade, Peruvian graduate of the UW Business School
    • “A Broken Immigration System and its Undocumented Youth”
    • Noon-1:20 p.m., Fairhaven College Auditorium
  • Wednesday, Jan. 20
    • Presenter: Beverly Naidus, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program, UW Tacoma
    • “Irresistable Resistance: Artists Confronting the Issues of Our Time”
    • Noon-1:20 p.m., Fairhaven College Auditorium
  • Wednesday, Jan. 27
    • Presenter: Marjolein Van de Veen, Economics instructor, Bellevue College
    • “The 2008 Economic Crisis and its Global Ramifications”
    • Noon-1:20 p.m., Fairhaven College Auditorium
  • Wednesday, Feb. 3
    • Presenter: Aaron Katz, UW School of Public Health
    • “Health Care Reform, American Style (What’s Not to Like?)”
    • Noon-1:20 p.m., Fairhaven College Auditorium
  • Wednesday, Feb. 10
    • Presenter: Thomas Weisner, professor of Anthropology, UCLA
    • “What’s Best For Our Children – And What This Means in an Unequal World”
    • Noon-1:20 p.m., Fairhaven College Auditorium
  • Wednesday, Feb. 17
    • Presenter: Barbara Perry, faculty, Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario
    • “Challenging Canadian Multiculturalism: The Community Effects of Hate Crime”
    • Noon-1:20 p.m., Fairhaven College Auditorium
  • Wednesday, Feb. 24
    • Presenter: Sarmila Shrestha, Columbia University Law School
    • “Reproductive Health: A Rights-Based Approach in Nepal”
    • Noon-1:20 p.m., Fairhaven College Auditorium
    • Note: Sarmila Shrestha will also present at the Paths to Global Justice Speaker Series later on Feb. 24, at 4 p.m. in Humanities Room 253. This presentation is also free and open to the public.
  • Wednesday, March 3
    • Presenter: Pascual Bernabe Velasquez, native of San Juan Ixcoy, Guatamala
    • “Mining and Indigenous Rights: The Struggle for Self-Determination in Guatamala”
    • Noon-1:20 p.m., Fairhaven College Auditorium

For more information on the World Issues Forum speaker series presented by Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, call Shirley Osterhaus at (360) 650-2309.