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| • PBI Events, Fall 2009 • | |
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| November 20 | |
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Trash for Cash: Making a Killing and Making a Living on Garbage |
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| December 8 | |
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Video Screenings by PBI Summer Tour Grant Winners |
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| More events and details. | |
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Dru Gladney
Dru C. Gladney is President of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, a research foundation widely recognized for its work enhancing understanding among the nations of the Pacific Rim. He is the author of four books and more than 50 academic articles and book chapters on topics spanning the Asian continent. He also holds a position as a Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College.
Gladney is a frequent commentator on CNN and other news media. Among his numerous books, Gladney’s most recent is Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects (University of Chicago Press, 2004). He is also the author of: Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic (2nd edition 1996) and Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality (1998); and the editor of Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the U.S. (1998). Gladney’s publications have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish and German.
Gladney has held faculty positions and post-doctoral fellowships at
Harvard University; the University of Southern California; Kings
College, Cambridge; and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He
has been a consultant to the Soros Foundation, Ford Foundation, World
Bank, Getty Museum, Asian Development Bank, National Academy of
Sciences, European Center for Conflict Prevention, U.N. High Commission
on Refugees, and UNESCO. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology
from the University of Washington, Seattle. Most recently, Dr. Gladney
has served as a Global Agenda Council member at the World Economic Forum
in Dubai, where he helped set the agenda for the upcoming Davos
meetings.
Contact Dru Gladney.
