The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) will celebrate the University's Tercentennial with a symposium on the topic "Envisioning the World in the Next Century: Challenges to Internationalizing Yale" on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 13 and 14.

Nancy Birdsall, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will deliver the keynote address for the event on Thursday at 5 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Her talk is free and open to the public.

Birdsall directs the economics programs for the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace and is the author of numerous publications on labor market, human resource and other development issues. Her most recent work is on the relationship between income distribution and growth. Her books include "Distributive Justice and Economic Development," "New Markets, New Opportunities? Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World," "Unfair Advantage: Labor Market Discrimination in Developing Countries" and "Financing Health in Developing Countries: An Agenda for Reform."

From 1993 to 1998, Birdsall was the executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development banks, with a portfolio of about $30 billion. There she served as the president's deputy in the management of the bank's operations and administration, and, as chair of the loan committee, was responsible for the content and quality of country programs and all public and private lending operations. She previously held a number of policy and management positions at the World Bank, including director of the Policy Research Department, a group of nearly 80 economists who undertake economic research and policy analysis in such areas as trade, adjustment and growth, poverty and human resources, financial sector issues, the environment and private sector development issues.

Other symposium events, which are open to Yale faculty and alumni, include a plenary session beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday that will explore such topics as "The Political Economy of Globalization," "International Development from Below" and a roundtable discussion on "Crossing Borders." In addition, Gustav Ranis, the Henry R. Luce Director of YCIAS, will welcome attendees with a talk titled "The View from YCIAS." Participants in the session include Nancy Ruther, associate director of YCIAS, and Yale faculty members Amy Chua (Law School), James C. Scott (political science), Michael Holquist (comparative literature), Patricia Pessar (anthropology and American studies) and Eric Worby (anthropology).

Beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, there will be concurrent conversations on the topics "Envisioning East Asia," "Envisioning the Middle East," "Envisioning Latin America" and "Envisioning South Asia." A second set of concurrent discussions, beginning at 4 p.m., will focus on "Envisioning Europe," "Envisioning Africa," "Envisioning the U.S. and Its Global Role" and "Envisioning Southeast Asia."

Among the participants in these talks will be Julia Preston '76, a New York Times correspondent in Mexico; Robert Kapp '66 M.A., '70 Ph.D., president of the U.S.-China Business Council; Antoine Van Agtmael '70 M.A., president of Emerging Markets Investors; Ralph H. Isham '79, president of GH Venture Partners, Ltd.; and Scott Delman '82, managing director of Capital Z Partners. Discussants from the Yale faculty include historians Jonathan Spence, Abbas Amanat, Gil Joseph and Ivo Banac; economists T.N. Srinivasan, Christopher Udry and Phillip Levy; and Michael Dove of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

With the exception of the keynote address, all talks take place in Luce Hall of the YCIAS, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

The symposium is sponsored by the George Herbert Walker Jr. Fund. Registration is required for symposium events, which also include a luncheon buffet and receptions for Yale faculty and alumni. For further information, call (203) 432-3410 or visit the YCIAS website at www.yale.edu/ycias.

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