RIT Gannett Lecture—Barber Conable and William Tabb - to Discuss Globalization, April 11
Barber Conable, president of the World Bank from 1986 to 1991 and a New York congressman from 1964-84, and William Tabb, professor of economics at Queens College and political science at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will present "Unequal Partners?:Citizenship and Corporate Globalization," at 7:30 p.m. in Webb Auditorium in the James E. Booth Building. Tabb has written and edited 10 books including The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century.
The presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, call 475-2057 or visit www.rit.edu/gannettseries.
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