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9/12/05

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP TOPIC FOR CRIMMEL COLLOQUIUM AT SLU

CANTON - Philip D. McMichael, professor and chair of the development sociology department at Cornell University, is the keynote speaker of the 2005 Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium at St. Lawrence University. His talk, "The World As A Stage: Rehearsing for Global Citizenship," will be on Tuesday, September 27, at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden on the St. Lawrence campus. It is open to the public, free of charge.

McMichael's book The Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (1984) won the Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, and Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (1996) is a widely used college text. He is the editor of The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (1994) and Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy (1995). McMichael has served as director of Cornell University's International Political Economy Program and on a scientific advisory committee in the Food and Nutrition Division of the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization. He grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, completing undergraduate studies at the University of Adelaide and a Ph.D. in sociology at Binghamton University.

The Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium on Liberal Education was established in 1996 by Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Henry H. Crimmel to advance the cause of liberal education and to honor the memory of his parents. Its purpose is to provide a forum for addressing issues of fundamental importance to the liberal arts college and to liberal education, and especially those that are thematic in Crimmel's book, The Liberal Arts College and the Ideal of Liberal Education. Crimmel retired and was named to emeritus status in 1999.

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