OAKDALE, NY – Join Dowling College in celebrating their Annual Theme of “Globalism: One World” on Tuesday, April 15th from 2:30-4:30 in the Fortunoff Hall Ballroom.  This presentation, by Dowling College professors Dr. Nathalia Rogers and Dr. Martin Schoenhals, will be focused on Global Development: Challenges and Solutions. 

The audience will be introduced to social, economic, political and environmental issues of global development.   The audience and the presenters will engage in an interactive exercise about solutions to global development challenges.  The interactive exercise will involve breaking the audience into five working groups with each group discussing a different global development issue and presenting their solutions to the rest of the audience at the end of the exercise.   

Dr. Nathalia Rogers is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dowling College.  Dr. Rogers received her Ph.D. in Sociology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.  For the recent 20 years, Dr. Rogers has been engaged in research on topics of global comparisons and application of local governance initiatives as well as the dynamics of the relationship between the state, markets and political contenders in the emerging market economies.  Dr. Rogers has published her findings on these issues in various research journals. 

Martin Schoenhals, Professor of Anthropology at Dowling College, is a specialist in Chinese culture. He has lived in China for two years, conducting research leading to the publication of two books on China. His most current interest is the study of globalization. Recently, he conducted research in a village in central China which has sent most of its working age adults to labor in distant coastal factories.  His studies of the negative effects on rural life of China's industrialization led to speaking engagements at China's leading social science institute in Beijing, and at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, where Schoenhals was a Visiting Scholar in 2006-2007. Both Dr. Rogers and Dr. Schoenhals are currently working on developing M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in Global Studies at Dowling College.