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World Affair Luncheons

Schemel Forum ~ Spring Semester 2012

Luncheon Seminar Series

Time NOON — 1:30 PM
$20 per luncheon per person/$30 per luncheon per couple
$90 per series of 5 per person/$140 per 5-part series per couple
* Free to Schemel Forum Members
Wednesday, February 8 Small Change: Why Business Won't Change the World

Michael Edwards, Writer, Activist and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos
* Book signing to follow lecture.
Location: Brennan Hall Rose Room, 509
There is great excitement these days about how innovations that blur the boundaries between non-profit and for-profit actors and activities. Social enterprise, venture philanthropy and corporate social responsibility are growing rapidly and some claim they hold the key to global problem solving. But do they? This provocative talk will challenge these assumptions and explore where business and the market can –and cannot-- contribute to social justice and social change.
Friday, February 17   
Can We Feed the Planet Without Destroying It?  Our Global Challenge

Tim Searchinger, Research Scholar and Lecturer, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Location:  Brennan Hall Rose Room, 509
The world needs to produce at least 75% more food by 2050 to feed 9 billion people but also needs to preserve forests and other natural habitats to protect against global warming.  What are the opportunities and challenges?
Wednesday, March 7  
Three Major Pandemics: Malaria, Tuberculosis and HIV/Aids:  An Overview from an African Perspective

William A Takang, MD    Practicing physician and consultant from Cameroon, Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Alumnus, Research Scholar, New York University School of Medicine
Location:  Brennan Hall Rose Room, 509
Most African countries south of the Sahara have been hit by one of the most severe economic crises of the last two decades.  This has greatly affected the capacity of their governments to respond to these pandemics. We will explore the management options available for each of them and also the international intervention strategies geared toward control of these debilitating diseases.
Friday, March 30   
Back to the Future:  FDR’s Four Freedoms Go Global

Allida Black, Executive Editor of the fdr4freedoms Digital Initiative and Research Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University
Location:  Collegiate Hall at Redington Hall
As the world confronted the most perilous crisis of the 20th century, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stemmed its panic by presenting a vision to combat it.  Now, seventy years later, his call to embrace “a world founded upon four fundamental freedoms” is more relevant than ever.
Tuesday, April 10 
The Greening of Democracy? The Arab Spring and its Outcomes

Elzbieta Matynia - Director, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, The New School
Location:  Brennan Hall Rose Room, 509
The lecture will examine not only the diverse outcomes of the Arab Spring in the countries that were involved in North Africa and the Middle East, but the rash of citizen protests that sprang up in other parts of the world in its wake.
To register for programs, contact:
Kym Balthazar Fetsko, Schemel Forum Events Coordinator
570-941-7816
fetskok2@scranton.edu
For more information on the Schemel Forum, contact:
Sondra Myers, Schemel Forum Director
570-941-4089
myerss2@scranton.edu


Friday, February 17Friday, February 17
Pride, Passion, Promise: Experience Our Jesuit Tradition
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