Previous events - page 01 More Previous Events > Watch this page for new GSI events beginning with the Quiz Bash in September 2009. Previous Events • 10/14/08 - "International Relations Council Annual Banquet" At the gala IRC banquet in the downtown KC Marriott, Katie, Kaitlin, Michaela and Deanna graced the USM table. Strobe Talbot, President of the Brookings Institute and keynote speaker for the evening signs his book for Katie Murray.     • 11/06/08 – "Digesting Africa," Luncheon Talk on South Africa USM Alum Doug Lathrop, Africa Specialist at Fort Leavenworth’s Command and General Staff College, takes interesting field trips. One of Doug’s excellent slides at the lunchtime Brown Bag.     • 11/11/08 – SIFE LECTURE "What It Takes To Be Successful in International Business" Dan Ward, CEO of the firm Western Forms in Kansas City tells the members of the International Business class how to be a successful entrepreneur. Alan DePonceau, Vice President of Foreign Exchange at Kansas City’s Commerce Bank gives "a history of money" in international business. The Business Department’s Students In Free Enterprise partnered with GSI to bring noted Kansas City businessmen to campus for an evening lecture on the intricacies and pitfalls of manufacturing and trading abroad. "The rules can be dangerously different," said Dan Ward, whose firm Western Forms is a 30-year success story in spite of increasing global trade problems. Alan DePonceau, a "money man" at Commerce Bank in Kansas City, gave insight into what it takes to lend and profit from international enterprises. The evening was another example of the vitality of SIFE and its leaders Mary Youngblood and Cori Collis. GSI also supported a day-long "Import-Export Simulation" for Professor Carlton Philpot’s class in International Business. Members of the Kansas City International Trade Council acted as mediators. GSI bought the pizza! • 01/28/09 –"Know Your World: Ireland"; Luncheon Talk on the Republic of Ireland Commandant Mark Hearns, an Irish officer studying at Fort Leavenworth’s CGSC presents "Know Your World: Ireland" at Saint Mary. Commandant Hearns gave a talk full of surprises, discussing how immigration may be changing the character of Ireland, the crunch in energy resources and the recent sharp decline in prosperity, and shocking turmoil in the Irish Catholic Church. Sister Mary Lenore Martin, former Chair of the History Department (and "Irish to the bone") gives Commandant Hearns the real "skinny" on the Emerald Isle. No matter what changes occur in Ireland "the PUBS REMAIN THE SAME!," says Commandant Hearns. • 12/23/08 - "Social Work in Haiti" Kerrie Hustings tells a GSI audience two days before Christmas about the year she spent working among the poor in Fondwa, Haiti. The creature on the screen behind Kerrie was one of the occupational hazards of working on the island – a giant tarantula! Kerrie tells the largely Mother House crowd that in spite of the tarantulas, she felt safer in Fondwa than she often does in Washington, D.C., when visiting her two sisters who are social workers there. Kerrie is currently getting her Masters Degree in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.   More Previous Events >
University of Saint Mary | Mission | Who is Starr? | Locations | Publications Exchanges & Internships | Events | Supporters | Global Links © Copyright 2008, Global Studies Institute and the University of Saint Mary, All rights reserved.