Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace on May 22, 2007, 3:00-5:00pm in J1-050

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and Cultural Heritage Thematic Group
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent
Cornell University Press publication
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| | Limits to Liberalization: |
| | Local Culture in a Global |
| | Marketplace |
| | by Patricia M. Goff |
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| file: pic14218.jpg) | The culture industries are |
| | noteworthy exceptions to the |
| | rhetorical commitment of Western |
| | countries to free trade as a major |
| | goal. Patricia Goff traces the |
| | rationale for "cultural |
| | protectionism" in trade policies of |
| | Canada, France, and the European |
| | Union. The result is a larger |
| | understanding of the forces that |
| | shape international trade agreements |
| | and a book that speaks to current |
| | theoretical concerns about national |
| | identity as it plays out in politics |
| | and international relations. |
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| | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| | 3:00 - 5:00pm |
| | World Bank J Building, Auditorium |
| | J1-050 |
| | (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. |
| | and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| | Cookies and Coffee will be served |
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Moderator
Mark Woodward
Senior Social Development Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, Europe
and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mark Woodward is a Senior Social Development Specialist in the World
Bank's Europe and Central Asia Region where he has been working on a
variety of issue areas including mobilizing cultural heritage in
support of sustainable development, notably in the Balkans and the
South Caucasus. Mr. Woodward has a Ph.D. in Political Science from
Stanford University.

Author
Patricia Goff
Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier
University and
Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Patricia Goff specializes in International Political Economy and
International Relations Theory. She holds an Honours
B.A. in French and Political Science from the University of Western
Ontario, an M.A. in French Literature from McMaster
University, a Diplôme d?études approfondies in Comparative Politics
from the University of Paris, and a Ph.D. in
Political Science from Northwestern University. She is co-editor
with Kevin C. Dunn of Identity and Global Politics
(Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004) and co-editor with Paul Heinbecker
of Irrelevant or Indispensable: the United Nations
in the 21st Century (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005).

Commentary
JP Singh
Assistant professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology
Program at Georgetown University
J. P. Singh is a professor and an Editor of Research Policy Review.
Mr. Singh authored Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy
of Telecommunications Restructuring and co-edited (with James N.
Rosenau) Information Technologies and Global Politics. His current
book project is titled Negotiating the Global Information Economy.
He has authored nearly thirty journal articles and book chapters.
He is Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Politics
section of the American Political Science Association; President of
the International Communication Section of the International Studies
Association; and Vice President of the Policy Studies Organization.

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