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Michael Watts @ Colgate Mon.

Thu, Sep 22, 2011

Michael Watts @ Colgate Mon.

Michael Watts — one of the world's leading authorities on the political economies and social effects of energy and agro-food production — will speak at Colgate Monday at 7 p.m. in Love Auditorium (300 Olin Hall). The public is welcome.

His talk, titled Economies of Violence: Oil, Conflict and Frontiers of Dispossession, will focus on case studies from Nigeria, a major oil-producing region in the West African Gulf of Guinea, and other resource-dependent states.

Watts is Professor and Class of 1963 Chair of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. He is author or co-editor of many books, including Global Political Ecology (2010) and The Curse of the Black Gold (2008).

The event is co-sponsored by Africana and Latin American Studies, Geography, Environmental Studies, and University Studies.

For information, please contact the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at 228-7806.

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