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The Globalisation Lectures

After several successful lectures in Felix Meritis by Naomi Klein and Noreena Hertz in 2002, Felix Meritis decided to give more attention to the phenomenon of globalisation, together with Uitgeverij Lemniscaat and de Volkskrant.

The world is getting smaller every day. We fly everywhere, and communicate with each other over great distances. But globalisation has a downside too. Does everybody benefit from globalisation? And are there any negative side-effects? The Globalisation Lectures were created to tackle issues like these.

The First Globalisation Lecture was held at the end of 2002. In 2003, the VPRO/Tegenlicht and NCDO joined the editorial staff of the Globalisation Lectures, and in 2009 Radio Nederland Wereldomroep decided to join the group as well. Since 2002, the editors have organised four lectures each year. During each Globalisation Lecture, prominent figures from around the world, both pro- and anti-globalists, have presented their vision of globalisation to a wide audience. Prior to the lectures a full-page interview with the speaker was placed in the Volkskrant and the newspaper regularly placed the commentators' reactions afterwards. The lectures were recorded by the VPRO and can be accessed through the website of the Globalisation Lecture. 

Previous lectures:

• Three cheers for the male species! By Gary Barker (7 March 2012)
• Let's be sane and make everyone gain! With a.o. Esther Duflo and  René Grotenhuis (22 December 2011)
• Another life is possible! With a.o. Manuel Castells and Bregtje van der Haak (2 December 2011)
• Egypt after Mubarak, What sort of future is in store for the Arab Spring? With a.o. Tarek Osman (14 September 2011) 
• Energy Risk, the evening that makes Cancún completely redundant! With a.o. Hugo von Meijenfeldt and Lucia van Geuns (26 November 2010)
• Pirates of the Indian Ocean With a.o. Kassim Mohammed and Ernst Jan Hogendoorn (26 Oktober 2010)
• Boss in own Burqa, feminism thanks to or in spite of Islam? With  Mona Eltahawy and Rob Vreeken (6 Oktober 2010)
• Loya Jirga: Exit Afghanistan? With a.o. Mohammad Tariq Ismati, Sarwar Gizabi and Dick Berlijn (5 February 2010)
• Peace or Justice? International legal proceedings and the miscommunication between cultures. With a.o. Julia Sebutinde (18 November 2009) 
• Stop the Aid. Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa. By Dambisa Moyo (7 October 2009)
• The women of Africa can turn the tide - Pray the devil back to hell. By Etweda Cooper (7 April 2009) 
• World Art. Door Okwui Enwezor (12 December 2008) 
• The New Asian Hemisphere; the irresistible shift of global power to the East. By Kishore Mahbubani (3 November 2008)
• With Friends Like These; The untold story of humanitarian aid operations in war zones. By Linda Polman (9 October 2008)
• Wisdom of the Crowd. By Andrew Keen (8 April 2008) 
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. By Naomi Klein (11 October 2007)
• Cool It! The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. By Bjørn Lomborg (9 October 2007)
• Shaking up citizenship. By Saskia Sassen (20 April 2007)
• Eerlijke Globalisering. By Joseph Stiglitz (10 November 2006)
• Iedereen Kosmopoliet? Over globalisering en identiteit. By Kwame Anthony Appiah (23 June 2006)
• Onderhandelen met Al-Qaeda. By Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (17 May 2006)
• Globalisering van onderaf. By Kumi Naidoo and Sorious Samura (3 November 2005)
• China in Afrika. With Yash Tandon, Lanxin Xian, Chudi Ukpabi and Peter Ho (19 October 2005)
• Het doel en de middelen. With Hans Eenhoorn and Wendy Harcourt (12 September 2005)
• Globaliseren met de Wereldbank. With Ernesto Zedillo and Ad Melkert (24 May 2005)
• Kan globalisering zonder god? With Tariq Ramadan, Tariq Ali and Ad Verbrugge (22 February 2005)
• I.O.U. Hoe maken we de schuldenlast onschadelijk? By Noreena Hertz (7 November 2004)
• De export van moederliefde. By Rhacel Parreňas (3 September 2004)
• Europa als wereldmacht. By Pascal Lamy (31 May 2004)
• Focus of Azië. By Walden Bello (5 April 2004)
• McWorld vs CivWorld. By Benjamin Barber (8 January 2004)
• Het gouden keurslijf. By Thomas Friedman (15 October 2003) 
• Ethiek en globalisering. By Peter Singer (17 April 2003)
• De gevolgen van de privatisering van het water. By Maude Barlow and Tony Clark (10 March 2003)
• De machteloosheid voorbij. By Jean-François Rischard (18 November 2002)

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23rd Globalisation Lecture: Kishore Mahbubani - 3 November 2008

23rd Globalisation Lecture: Frans Timmermans - 3 November 2008

23rd Globalisation Lecture: discussion - 3 November 2008