Philip
D. McMichael, professor and chair of the development sociology
department at Cornell University, is the keynote speaker of the 2005
Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium at St. Lawrence University.
His talk, "The World As A Stage: Rehearsing for Global Citizenship," will
be on Tuesday, September 27, at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden on the St.
Lawrence campus. It is open to the public, free of charge.
McMichael's book The Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial
Australia (1984) won the Social Science History Association's Allan
Sharlin Memorial Award, and Development
and Social Change: A Global Perspective (1996) is a widely used
college text. He is the editor of The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (1994)
and Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy (1995). McMichael
has served as director of Cornell University's International Political Economy
Program and on a scientific advisory committee in the Food and Nutrition
Division of the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization. He grew
up in Adelaide, South Australia, completing undergraduate studies at the University
of Adelaide and a Ph.D. in sociology at Binghamton
University.
The Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium on Liberal Education was established
in 1996 by Emeritus Professor of
Philosophy Henry
H. Crimmel to advance the cause of liberal education and to honor the memory
of his parents. Its purpose is to provide a forum for addressing issues of
fundamental importance to the liberal arts college and to liberal education,
and especially those that are thematic in Crimmel's book,
The Liberal
Arts College and the Ideal of Liberal Education. Crimmel retired and
was named to emeritus status in 1999.
