Date: 3-May-2024 - 10:00 AM To 3:30 PM EST

This workshop will examine the major factors and forces of poverty and inequality from a global perspective. In the morning, we will discuss the trends and consequences of global inequality and poverty and efforts to reduce them and provide for basic human needs and human potential. In the afternoon, we will discuss the historical interface of inequality/poverty, colonialism, and environment.

Date: 17-May-2024 - 10:00 AM To 3:30 PM EST

This workshop will explore the interdependence of human rights and violence thru major governmental institutions in various parts of the world. In particular, the focus will be on recent developments and threats to societies with limited rights, protections, and resources.

Date: 21-Feb-2025 - 10:00AM - 3:30PM EST

The workshop will discuss the historical development of capitalism with the resulting benefits, shortcomings, and drawbacks. We will try to re-conceptualize global capitalism in a way that the dynamics of historical transformations and the varieties of current socio-political constellations can be more adequately understood and efforts for democracy vs. authoritarianism .

Date: 28-Feb-2025 - 10:00 AM To 3:30 PM EST

This workshop will discuss the increasing importance of information technologies, especially the Internet impacting education. We will explore various learning challenges and strategies of pedagogy that faculty could use with their students and possibly revise their teaching.

Date: 21-March-2025 - 10 AM To 3:30 PM EST

This workshop will examine how climate change is impacting people’s livelihoods in various parts of the world. There are useful insights from various parts of the world trying to adapt and/or mitigate climate change challenges, in their effort to improve or at least maintain their livelihoods.

Date: 28-Mar-2025 - 10:00AM - 3:30PM EST

This workshop examines the global dimensions of social justice challenges and movements in a globalizing planet. It explores the formation, activities, and strategies for change, weighing the opportunities and constraints in mobilizing individuals, groups, and nations.

Date: 2-May-2025 - 10:00 AM To 3:30 PM EST

The increasing global challenges related to AI, surveillance, and human rights abuses are forcing us to re-assess how we can regulate AI to safeguard a more responsible, accountable, and humane world. In this workshop, we will discuss the various efforts for a better world by reforming governing institutions or forming new networks that are based on accountability, inclusivity, fairness, interdependency, and democracy.

Date: 16-May-2025 - 10:00 AM To 3:30 PM EST

This workshop will discuss how emerging technologies like nanotechnology, information technology, genetics, robotics, synthetic biology, novel pharmaceuticals, regenerative medicine and neuroscience transform the world with major trade-offs and create ethical challenges for the human race.

Date: 07-Nov-2025 - 10 AM To 3:30 PM EST

This workshop will examine how pandemics are impacting people’s livelihoods.  There are useful insights from various regions of the world, especially Asia, in trying to mitigate and adapt to wide variety of challenges caused by bacteria and viruses, in their effort to deal with large-scale illnesses and death.