Option 1 [lecture series title] Parkland Forum [title] Unpacking Globalization: What China Means For America [abstract] There seems to be widespread agreement in the United States that we should be worried about ChinaÕs economic and political ascent. Economic protectionists wring their hands over the $200 billion U.S. trade deficit. Globalists voice concern over ChinaÕs actions in trying to corner the world energy markets. Sample questions: What role should retraining and wage insurance programs play AmericaÕs policy response to globalization? Should the U.S. use its influence within the IMF and World Bank to pressure countries like China to revalue their currencies? Should the fact that China annually provides the U.S. with hundreds of billions of dollars in low-priced goods affect U.S. domestic policies in areas such as the minimum wage, health insurance, taxation, etc.? How should the U.S. react to the outsourcing of hi-tech jobs to research centers located in China? If Chinese scientists can do the same quality of work as their American counterparts at a fraction of the cost, what hope is there for hi-tech workers in the U.S.? [speaker] Timothy Garrett Professor of International Relations, Business Administration, Communication and Law at the University of Southern California [time/place] Monday, December 21 2009 7:30pm Parkland Auditorium RSVP for the reception by Monday, December 14 rsvp-pf@parklandforum.edu or 217-555-0840 [Co-sponsors] Office of the President, Parkland College [url] www.parklandforum.edu Option 2 [lecture series title] Parkland Forum [title] Media Life: The Experience of Love, Sex & Death in Digital Culture [abstract] Research since the early years of the 21st century consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how being concurrently exposed to media has become a foundational feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media. Contemporary media devices, what people do with them, and how all of this fits in the organization of our everyday life disrupt and unsettle well-established views of the role media play in society. Instead of continuing to wrestle with a distinction between media and society, this contribution proposes we begin our thinking with a view of life not lived with media, but in media. [speaker] Mary Smith Professor, Computer Science, Sociology Indiana University [time/place] Monday, December 21 2009 7:30pm Parkland Auditorium RSVP for the reception by Monday, December 14 rsvp-pf@parklandforum.edu or 217-555-0840 [Co-sponsors] Office of the President, Parkland College [url] www.parklandforum.edu Option 3 [lecture series title] Parkland Forum [title] Playing One Race Against the Other: How the United States Managed Labor [abstract] The labor economist John Commons wrote that U.S. management showed but one Òsymptom of originality,ÓÑan ability to play Òone race against the other.Ó Roediger places the roots of race management in slavery, showing how it coexisted with scientific management, structuring class relations at home and the pursuit of empire. [speaker] James Hillibrand Professor of History and African American Studies University of Iowa [time/place] Monday, December 21 2009 7:30pm Parkland Auditorium Reception to follow after RSVP for the reception by Monday, December 14 rsvp-pf@parklandforum.edu or 217-555-0840 [Co-sponsors] Office of the President, Parkland College [url] www.parklandforum.edu Option 4 [lecture series title] Parkland Forum [title] Climate Policy: The Prospects for Action in the US and Abroad! [abstract] Hear from one of the nations foremost environmental expert discussing global warming, the prospects for an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and whatÊpoliciesÊeach country can use to meet its commitment.Ê Charles Kolstad, is an internationally known economist andÊone of the authors of the report forÊthe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. [speaker] Charles Kolstad An internationally known economist andÊone of the authors of the report forÊ the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. [time/place] Monday, December 21 2009 7:30pm Parkland Auditorium Reception to follow after RSVP for the reception by Monday, December 14 rsvp-pf@parklandforum.edu or 217-555-0840 [Co-sponsors] Office of the President, Parkland College [url] www.parklandforum.edu Option 5 [lecture series title] Parkland Forum [title] Gender Equity: The Slow Advancement of Women [abstract] Women remain conspicuously underrepresented at the most prominent levels of science, medicine, business, law and academia and groups such as the steering committees of professional organizations, the editorial boards of leading journals and the National Academy of Sciences. According to ValianÕs research, womenÕs slow advancement in the professions is based on many small social-cognitive processes that put them at a disadvantage and give an advantage to men, enabling men to excel professionally more quickly than women. [speaker] Virginia Valian Professor, Department of Psychology Hunter College [time/place] Monday, December 21 2009 7:30pm Parkland Auditorium Reception to follow after RSVP for the reception by Monday, December 14 rsvp-pf@parklandforum.edu or 217-555-0840 [Co-sponsors] Office of the President, Parkland College [url] www.parklandforum.edu