Tony Blair speaks at Yale University about faith and globalization in relation to recent world events such as the economic crisis, the election of Barack Obama, climate change and the Mumbai terrorist attacks. He also lists the ten most important topics relating to faith and globalization for people to keep in mind as the world moves forward.
Thomas L. Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Book excerpt available here: yaleglobal.yale.edu
Nayan Chanda – Director of Publications at Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and author of “Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization ” – discusses the historical and human context of globalization. This interview was recorded in May 2007. PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS ON THE VIDEO BEFORE WATCHING.
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Nayan Chanda – Director of Publications at Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and author of “Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization ” – discusses the historical and human context of globalization. This interview was recorded in May 2007. PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS ON THE VIDEO BEFORE WATCHING.
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Nayan Chanda – Director of Publications at Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and author of “Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization ” – discusses the historical and human context of globalization. This interview was recorded in May 2007. PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS ON THE VIDEO BEFORE WATCHING.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair joined University President Richard C. Levin and Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico and director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, for a conversation before the Yale community in Battell Chapel on December 10 at 4 pm Blair is teaching a Faith and Globalization seminar at Yale as a Howland Distinguished Fellow. His teaching colleagues are Miroslav Volf, director of the Center for Faith and Culture and the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology, and Douglas Rae, the Richard S. Ely Professor of Management and Professor of Political Science. The seminar explores issues concerning the public roles of religious faiths in the context of globalization. The course, first introduced in 2008, is a joint offering of the School of Management under Dean Sharon M. Oster and the Divinity School under Dean Harold Attridge.
Tony Blair, Howland Distinguished Fellow at Yale University, reflects on the importance of continuing to analyze the role of faith and values in globalization.
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Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology and Director for the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, introduces the topic of gender and religion in the context of globalization.
Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology and Director for the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, interviews Joan Lockwood odonovan, Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity, New College, University of Edinburgh, about faith and human rights.
Muna Abu Sulayman of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Kingdom Foundation responds to a students question about choice functions in religious responses to globalization.
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