Social Sciences hosting seminars from visiting Hooker Fellows

Three areas in the Faculty of Social Sciences will host a series of lectures and seminars from visiting H. L. Lyman Hooker Fellows throughout March that will focus on issues of health, international relations and globalization.

The Department of Economics will host Janet M. Currie, who is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and director of the Center for Health and Well-Being at Princeton University, while the Department of Political Science and the Institute on Globalization and Human Behaviour will host  lectures by Dr. John Hobson from the University of Sheffield.

Dr. Currie will deliver the following seminars and lectures:

Do Stimulant Medications Improve Educational and Behavioral Outcomes for Children with ADHD? (March 5 from 12:30-1:20 p.m.) University Club West Room

Health Inequality in Early Life: Causes and Consequences (March 6 beginning at 3:30 p.m.) CIBC Hall

Diagnostic Skill, Surgical Skill, and Outcomes: The Case of C-Section (March 7 from 3-4:20 p.m.) University Club, West Room

Dr. Hobson will deliver the following seminars and lectures:

Globalization: An Historical Sociology of the Promiscuous (Trans-Civilization) Architecture of Globalization (March 20 from 6-9 p.m.) University Club Great Hall

From Eurocentric International Relations/Political Economy to Non-Eurocentric Intercivilizational Relations/Political Economy (March 20 from 2:30-4 p.m.) KTH 732

The Department of Religious Studies is also hosting two significant lectures in early March. On March 4, Dr. Mark Cohen of Princeton University will deliver the lecture Modern Myths of Muslim Anti-Semitism beginning at 7:30 p.m. in CIBC Hall. Dr. Cohen’s lecture is the annual Meyer-Schreiber Lecture.

Then, on March 12, Dr. Mohammad Fadel of the University of Toronto will deliver the Sharjah Chair in Global Islam Annual Lecture. This lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in MUMC 1A1.