RIT Holds Conference on Capitalism, April 17
April 13, 2003
by Susan Murphy
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Capitalism will be examined from the inside out during the daylong conference, the Cultures of Capitalism: Crisis of Confidence and New Directions, at Rochester Institute of Technology on Thursday, April 17.
Sponsored by RIT’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the free and public conference will explore the nature of capitalism. Panels of scholars, students, community activists and representatives from the Farmworker Legal Services, the United Way of Greater Rochester, Metro Justice, and Rochester Labor Council will consider the roles and responsibilities of consumers, community activists and regulatory agencies in molding a culture of capitalism.
The event will begin at 10 a.m. in RIT’s Carlson auditorium with the talk, Global Corporate Culture: Can the Promises be Realized?, by Leslie Sklair, professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and author of Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives.
Panel discussions throughout the day will include:
The conference will wrap up with the talk, Sustainable Development: Is it Possible in the Culture of Capitalism?, by Michael Horowitz, director of the Institute for Development and Anthropology at State University of New York at Binghamton.
For more information, contact Murli Sinha at 475-2896 or 475-6701.
