September 30, 1998

The Geonomics Center for International Studies

at Middlebury College to Host Series of Lectures on Foreign Affairs

and Finance in October

Middlebury College’s Geonomics Center for International

Studies will host a series of three lectures and a roundtable

discussion on economics, finance and foreign affairs from Oct.

7-23. All events, except for the lecture on Oct. 13, will be in

the library at the Geonomics Center on Hillcrest Road off College

Street (Route 125). The lecture on Oct. 13 will be in Kirk Alumni

Center on Route 30. The events are free and open to the public.

Walker Connor, a visiting professor of political

science at Middlebury College, will give the first lecture, “Nationalism

in Post-National Western Europe” at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 7.

On Oct. 13 at 4:30 p.m., Aleksa Djilas, a

former fellow at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University,

will give a talk, “Kosovo Through Serbian

Eyes.” Djilas is the author

of “The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution,

1919-1953” and the forthcoming “Yugoslavia: Dictatorship

and Disintegration.”

Jan Svejnar, a professor of economics at the University

of Michigan, will speak on “Economies in Transition: Comparing

China, Russia and Central Europe” at 12 p.m. on Oct. 19.

A roundtable discussion, “The

Changing Environment of Global Finance and Preparing Yourself

for It,” will take place at 4:30 p.m.

on Oct. 23. The participants include Patrick

Durkin of Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette; Jeff Fisher of Bemos Investment

Advisors; Lisa Giuffra de Diaz of Goldman Sachs; and John Walderon

of Bear Stearns.

For information please call the Geonomics

Center for International Studies at Middlebury College at 802-443-2300.

Schedule of Events:

Oct. 7

4:30 p.m. Lecture: “Nationalism

in Post-National Western Europe” in the Geonomics Center

Library on Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125). Walker

Connor, visiting professor of political science at Middlebury

College and author of “Ethnonationalism: the Quest for Understanding”

(1994, Princeton University Press).

Oct. 13

4:30 p.m. Lecture: “Kosovo

Through Serbian Eyes” at the Kirk Alumni Center on Golf Course

Road, off Route 30. Aleksa Djilas, former

fellow at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University,

and author of “The Contested

Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953”

and the forthcoming “Yugoslavia: Dictatorship and Disintegration.”

Oct. 19

12 p.m. Lecture: “Economies

in Transition: Comparing China, Russia and Central Europe”

at the Geonomics Center Library on Hillcrest Road, off College

Street (Route 125). Jan Svejnar, professor of economics at the

University of Michigan.

Oct. 23

4:30 p.m. Roundtable

discussion: “The Changing

Environment of Global Finance and Preparing Yourself for It”

at the Geonomics Center Library on Hillcrest Road, off College

Street (Route 125). Patrick

Durkin of Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette; Jeff Fisher of Bemos Investment

Advisors; Lisa Giuffra de Diaz of Goldman Sachs; and John Walderon

of Bear Stearns.

For information please call the Geonomics

Center for International Studies at Middlebury College at 802-443-2300.