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Dear Members,
We are pleased to announce a special event and unique opportunity for
Development Gateway members! At 3:00pm on May 24th the World Bank's
InfoShop, in collaboration with B-SPAN, will webcast a discussion by Nobel
Laureate Amartya Sen about his recent publication, "Identity and
Violence: The Illusion of Destiny". Challenging the reductionist view that
people of the world can be partitioned into civilizational categories
that reinforce our differences, Sen draws on history, economics, science,
literature and offers a vision of a world that can be made to move
toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward violence
and war. Dr. Sen's other books include "On Ethics and Economics",
"Development as Freedom", and "The Argumentative Indian".
LIVE WEBCAST
The webcast will take place Wednesday May 24th from 3:00pm-4:30pm EST
(Eastern Standard Time).
At that time, you will be able to access the live webcast at
http://webcast-ext.worldbank.org/streaming/live.ram. You will need
RealPlayer installed on your computer to view this video. For complete
information on how to download and install a free version of RealPlayer,
please go to http://www.real.com/.
EMAIL YOUR QUESTIONS FOR AMARTYA SEN
As members of the Development Gateway, you are invited to email your
questions for Amartya Sen to
dgContent@dgfoundation.org during his live presentation. The event
moderator will select a sample of these
questions to present to Amartya Sen during the live broadcast Q&A
session. Please include your name,
organization and country affiliation in your correspondence (these may
be mentioned by the moderator if your
question is selected).
MEMBER FORUM
Culture helps form identity and worldview. We are shaped by our
cultures, and perceived differences can be perceived as threatening. What can
be done to transcend these tensions and bring about a greater sense of
shared identity and a common, life affirming destiny? Please log in
and share your replies on the Culture and Development dgCommunity at
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/culture/discussion/showDiscussion.do~id=1522?intcmp=504
PRAISE FOR "IDENTITY & VIOLENCE"
"I am deeply impressed by power of Identity And Violence. Amartya Sen,
one of the world's great thinkers, tells us how to go about building a
more peaceful world. I hope the book will be read by all." - Ted
Turner
"The world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or
insightful a champion among economists than Amartya Sen. The United
Nations, in its own development work, has benefited immensely from the wisdom
and good sense of Professor Sen's views." - Kofi A. Annan,
Secretary-General of the United Nations
EVENT LOCATION
For those of you in or near Washington DC, the event will take place in
the World Bank H Building - Eugene R.
Black Auditorium, G Street Entrance (1914 G Street NW). All non-bank
attendees must send an RSVP email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org in order to attend in person.
BIOS OF THE PRESENTERS
Amartya Sen, Professor, Harvard University. Amartya Sen has written
several books including On Ethics and Economics, Development as Freedom,
and The Argumentative Indian. Mr. Sen won the 1998 Nobel Prize in
economics. A professor at Harvard, Mr. Sen lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
and Cambridge, England.
Professor Sen will be Introduced by Ian Goldin, Vice President,
External and UN Affairs, World Bank.
Ian Goldin has been Vice President at the World Bank since May 2003.
Previously, he was the Director of
Development Policy. Prior to joining the Bank in February 2001, Dr.
Goldin was the Chief Executive of the
Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Principal Economist at the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, and
Head of the Trade Program at the OECD Development Center in Paris.
ABOUT THE INFOSHOP
The InfoShop is the public information center and development bookstore
of the World Bank. It functions as the only publicly accessible space
at headquarters, providing internal and external audiences access to
over 6000 titles published by the World Bank, other international
organizations, and other publishers on development
issues. It is a space where information and documents on World Bank
development operations, economic data, and strategies, can be read easily
and comfortably at workstations designed for public use. In addition,
the InfoShop hosts book launches, exhibits, seminars, receptions, and
other community outreach events, and also carries videos, posters,
CD-ROMs, and gift items. For more information, visit:
http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop
ABOUT B-SPAN
B-SPAN (http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/index.asp) is an
Internet-based broadcasting service that
presents World Bank seminars, workshops, and conferences on a variety
of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues. B-SPAN streams
events on the Internet, archives them on the B-SPAN web site, offers
them in their original unedited format, and provides indexing for quick
access to specific speakers. B-SPAN's webcasts are free and available
to anyone with access to the Internet. Users need only to download a
free version of RealPlayer, a software that allows the playing of archived
videos on a personal computer. For complete information on how to
download and install RealPlayer, please go to http://www.real.com/.
We look forward to your participation!
Best wishes,
Mike Pereira
Director, Global Online Communities
Development Gateway Foundation
1889 F Street NW
Washington DC 20006
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