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The Editors | June 5th, 2011
Participants in last year's BIARI conference at Brown spoke with Global Conversation about their areas of research were they work; they all participated in two of BIARI's institutes: Development and Inequality in the Global South, and the... -
Ryan Lester | July 1st, 2010
The final BIARI interview is with Mario Negre, a researcher here at the BIARI Institute on Climate Change and its Impacts. We talked about bridging the gap between academic research and policy making, between academics and legislatures. -
Ryan Lester | July 1st, 2010
Today we have the last two BIARI interivews. First is Lydia Olaka, from Kenya here at the BIARI Institute on Climate Change and its Impacts. We talked about the problems of water supply and ecology. -
Zak Leonard | June 29th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Climate change is a hot topic these days, to put it mildly: innumerable resources and researchers in both the academic and governmental sectors are engaged in an international movement to reduce emissions. Yet this... -
Ryan Lester | June 29th, 2010
My second interview is with Saumya Chakrabarti, a researcher from eastern India here at the BIARI Institute on Development and Inequality in the Global South. We talked about the exclusion of the informal sector from the formal sector, the... -
Ryan Lester | June 29th, 2010
Today, I'll be posting up two interviews. The first conversation is with Max Kigobe, a researcher from Uganda here at the BIARI Institute on Climate Change and its Impacts. We talked about climate change modeling and multi-disciplinary... -
Ryan Lester | June 28th, 2010
Another interview is up today! Meet Carlos Shenga, a researcher from Mozambique here at the BIARI institute on Development and Inequality in the Global South. During my conversation with him, he talked about elections and inequality, and the... -
Eric Johnson
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June 25th, 2010
Fellow Global Conversation blogger Zack Leonard and I split up the final day's morning sessions - his coverage of the second, "Just International Climate Policies," should be up soon. Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. It seems like only...
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Eric Johnson
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June 24th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. It's been a long ride, but the 2010 BIARIs are almost over. Today was my penultimate lecture, and although it didn't have the dynamic scope of the last one I attended, it was still plenty interesting and relevant...
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Ryan Lester | June 24th, 2010
Today's interview is with Rashmi Larasati, a researcher from Indonesia here at the "Towards a Critical Global Humanities" Institute, on the conversation surrounding the new Humanities. I'll be back with more interviews next week. In the... -
Eric Johnson
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June 22nd, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. The BIARI crowd in attendance today at Barus & Holley got a real treat: Dov Sax, an assistant professor of biology here at Brown, led "Climate Change and Biodiversity," yet another impressive and detailed...
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Zak Leonard | June 22nd, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. The second week of the Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management BIARI began yesterday with a number of lectures on economic development and start-up growth. While I anticipated attending a lecture on technology... -
Ryan Lester | June 22nd, 2010
Today's interview is with Maria Jose Alvarez, a researcher from Uruguay here at the BIARI institute on Development and Inequality in the Global South, on her research on urban inequality and the global view found at BIARI. More interviews still to... -
Eric Johnson
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June 21st, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. The discussion of the real-world implications of global climate change rolled on today with "Climate Change and Food Security," a morning session led by plant breeder Ignacio Romagosa from Lleida, Spain's School of...
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Ryan Lester | June 21st, 2010
Hello! My name is Ryan Lester, and over the past week I've been interviewing researchers here at BIARI from across the Global South about their research, the conversations they've engaged in here at BIARI, and the challenges they've... -
Eric Johnson
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June 21st, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. The "Climate Change and its Impact" BIARI carries on through the end of this week at Brown, and I expect it'll be the focus of my writing in the coming days. Before I get to today's main session (full details on...
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Eric Johnson
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June 18th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. A three-hour talk about grasslands may not sound very interesting on paper, but I attended a surprisingly engaging one Thursday morning at the "Climate Change and its Impacts" BIARI. Specifically, Colorado State...
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Zak Leonard | June 17th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. To the general public, the international move to “go green” may seem fairly straightforward: recycle, conserve electricity, and consider purchasing fuel efficient automobiles. Yet the techniques that... -
Eric Johnson
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June 16th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Sort of like my second day covering the 2010 BIARIs, today was all about rethinking big societal institutions that affect our everyday lives. First up was the opening session for "Rethinking the Political," the...
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Eric Johnson
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June 15th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. For a change of pace, and as a treat for the end of the Global Humanity's BIARI's "Performance as Memory" section, the group convened today in the Rites & Reasons Theatre instead of the Brown/RISD Hillel. The...
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Eric Johnson
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June 14th, 2010
. Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Last week's two BIARIs--"Towards a Critical Global Humanities" and "Development and Inequality in the Global South"--are still ongoing this week. But today, two more programs start: "Climate Change and its Impacts...
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Eric Johnson
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June 11th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. As the first week of this year's BIARIs comes to a close, I'm not surprised to see that the sessions continue to produce fresh, great questions. It reminds me of a class I took here at Brown last fall, an...
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Eric Johnson
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June 10th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Both BIARIs today focused on economics in the morning sessions. Over in Kassar House, the Development & Inequality morning session addressed how to use economic and sociological tools to measure inequality. I...
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Zak Leonard | June 10th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. The 2010 FIFA World Cup is nearly upon us, with matches beginning on June 11th in South Africa and continuing until July 11. The decision to host this event in South Africa has been a contentious one, spurring a... -
Eric Johnson
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June 9th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. My Wednesday began in the social hall of Brown's Hillel building, where the sessions of the "Towards a Critical Global Humanities" BIARI are taking place. Harvard University's Roberto Unger opened the day with his...
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Eric Johnson
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June 8th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Another day, another panel. Not that that's a bad thing. Today's opener at the Development and Inequality BIARI was "Governance and Inequality: The Urban Question in Comparative Perspective." Our group from...
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Eric Johnson
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June 7th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Two BIARIs start today on the Brown campus--one is "Development and Inequality in the Global South," while the other is "Towards a Critical Global Humanities." In search of a session that would set the tone for the...
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Eric Johnson
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June 3rd, 2010
Hello, and welcome to the BIARI 2010 blog! BIARI stands for "Brown International Advanced Research Institutes," a series of programs now in their second year designed to bring great minds together around international issues at Brown...
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