We will be meeting again this Wednesday (October 3rd) at 6:30pm in 2271
Angell Hall.

Attached please find the article that will provide a basis for our
discussion. The piece is by philosophy Peter van Inwagen and is titled,
"Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on
Insufficient Evidence?" If you have trouble opening the file or don't
want to download it, you can also find it online:
http://comp.uark.edu/~senor/wrong.html

Check our website or send me an email with any further questions or comments.

Sincerely,
Joshua Blanchard
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/socratic/home

JOIN US!
A Blue Activist's Forum
Wednesday, October 3
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Work Gallery, 306 S. State Street

Please join the author and contributors of The Michigan Independent's Guide to Blue Activism for a celebration of the book's release. The first hour of the event will be a panel discussion, moderated by Campus Progress's Ramya Raghavan, discussing the methods, successes, challenges, and future of progressive activism at U-M. We welcome a variety of voices from all progressive efforts to join the discussion! The second hour will be a reception with refreshments (good food, not pizza).

China and the Global Politics of Cultural Heritage
Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjo
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Date: 10/2/2007
Time: 12 noon
Site: Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University

In this presentation, Professor Fiskesjö takes as a starting point China's government pending request to the US for restrictions on the trade in illicit antiquities smuggled from China, and the bitter debates in the US over whether to accept this Chinese demand or continue trading in stolen collectibles. He will then situate this ongoing controversy in the context of broader global developments, and the ambivalence of the contemporary Chinese embrace of global cultural heritage concepts, which occurs against the background of an ongoing looting disaster--as in many other parts of the global South. His goal is to re-evaluate the global tensions of China's cultural heritage policies as a clash of values which mirrors the broader contradictions arising from China's transformation into a prominent part of the global North.

Magnus Fiskesjö was educated in Sweden, in China, and at the University of Chicago.

This is a reminder there is a BLUElab general body meeting on Tuesday
October 2nd at 6:00PM in 1010 Dow.

We will discuss what the project groups have been working on and we
will hear from Professor Wright who is teaching a class that involves
students working in Chile over spring break.

If you have not joined a project group there is still time! Come to
the meeting to learn more about the projects BLUElab is working on.
There will be FREE FOOD too!

Thank you,
Tyler Fowler-Guzzardo
BLUElab Co-President

Art Collective mixer on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 from 6:30 to 9:30 in the evening at UMMA Off/site, 1301 South University. You will need to be on guest list to be admitted, and you have to show a picture I.D. for your entry.

You may visit website at www.umma.umich.edu for information on this activity at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

A big Coke Campaign Meeting this Tuesday (10/2) at 9pm in the Union Opera Lounge (Which is across the hall from the Anderson Rooms)



Last Meeting Notes:
- Get www.umich.edu/~coke site back up
- Make flyers for posting
- Call as many people possible to find members for the campaign
- Contact groups for endorsements and coalition building.

Come learn about the MSA funding process for student organizations
from the MSA funding body chairs and the MSA treasurer, Sabrina
Shingwani (sabrian@umich.edu), Tuesday, October 2nd in MSA Chambers
from 5 to 6 PM. We will answer any and all questions about our funding
process and procedure. We'll also have refreshments. For more
information please contact the MSA funding chairs:Tony Vuljaj:
tvuljaj@umich.edu,Stella Binkevich: stbi@umich.edu, Paula Klein:
riskyp@umich.edu, and Janine Shea: janinesh@umich.edu. MSA is located
at 3909 Michigan Union, third floor of the Michigan Union.

Center for South Asian Studies presents: “Conversations on South Asia”

CSAS Undergraduate Fellows Symposium



Friday, September 28th, 5 pm

Room 1636 of the School of Social Work/International Institute Building



- A reception to follow.



Presentations and discussions by the 2007 Summer in South Asia CSAS Undergraduate Fellowship Recipients.

Register for the Welcome Luncheon for Chronologically Advantaged Grad Students. This program will be held on Tuesday, September 25 from 12 noon – 1:30 pm in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building.

If you would like to attend, please register at:
https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Events/wssel.php

Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier
Speaker: Harry Broadman
Economic Adviser, Africa Region, The World Bank
Date: 9/25/2007
Time: 12 noon
Site: Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University

Recently accelerating Asian trade and investment in Africa hold great promise for Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth and development—provided certain policy reforms on both continents are implemented. This is the central finding of a new book, "Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier," authored by Harry Broadman of the World Bank. Africa's Silk Road provides, for the first time, systematic empirical evidence on how the two emerging economic giants of Asia—China and India—now stand at the crossroads of the "South-South" explosion of African-Asian trade and investment. The book explores the day-to-day operations of 470 firms, highlighting the role of Chinese and Indian companies operating in four African countries—South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, and Senegal—utilizing both new quantitative firm-level survey data as well as new qualitative data from original business case studies developed in the field.

Harry Broadman is Economic Adviser in the Africa Region at the World Bank in Washington, DC.