A
student-led effort
acrossto facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue, awareness,
and action on international development.
This year CUPID is initiating a campus-wide Interdisciplinary Community Forum. Each month we will host an open forum for individuals and groups interested in international development work. We will spotlight various campus groups involved in development work, hear from other groups about events and opportunities, and participate in informative mini-trainings.
If you want to be involved in development related activities, but are unsure where to start, attend these forums to learn more. Even if you are already engaged in this work around campus or through other affiliations, this is a great place to find out what everyone else is
doing and start building partnerships.
Also, if you would like to participate in other CUPID-sponsored events, committees and initiatives, attend these forums to learn how!
To learn more or to get involved, contact either Janna Metzler or Taylor Conger.
Past Community Forum Topics
December 8, 2010
The Effects of Climate Change on Human Development, Scientific Advancements and Journalism
October 28, 2010
The Price of Stones
October 13, 2010
Women of Burma on Building Peace
January 25, 2010
Spotlight Group: Community Lab with the Earth Institute
December 7, 2009
Student Group Spotlight on Global Health Forum
November 9, 2009
Student Group Spotlight: Society for International Education at Teachers College
Development Dialogues
CUPID Development Dialogues provide a chance to gather for casual, stimulating discussion of contemporary issues. These dialogues explore hot topics (often pulled straight from the headlines) from a multiplicity of development perspectives in order to encourage collective awareness, understanding, and action. While the discussion is sophisticated, the setting is meant to be informal, a free exchange open to people of all levels of expertise and interest. Everyone is encouraged not only to attend, but also to participate.
The format varies from dialogue to dialogue, but typically a few knowledgable speakers — whether students, practitioners, or professors — prepare remarks or a presentation to kick off the discussion, leading towards a free-flowing, open-ended conversation in which both speakers and audience engage fully.
Dialogues are held roughly once a month during the fall and spring semesters, usually in the evening. They happen at classrooms around campus, and to make these events accessible to the broadest audience possible, the dialogues rotate among the schools at the University, with a new host each month. For a schedule of upcoming events, check our news page or join our listserve for email updates.
Upcoming Dialogues
Recent Dialogues
Development Dialogue hosted by CUSSW
Date: February 4, 2010
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: AIDS Work in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Brazil
Speakers: Drs. Rogério M. Pinto, Susan Witte and Marion Riedel
Existing models for international research focus exclusively on one country at a time, thus providing little insight into the collaborative process in diverse contexts. We will present a tested five-step framework for international research. One project will examine how female health workers prioritized prevention services in Brazil. The other will examine the development of an intervention for female sex workers in Mongolia. We will show how Motivational Interviewing can be helpful in different cultural contexts. The 5-step framework embraces the tenets of social work, public health, and participatory-action research and can guide all phases of collaborative international research.
Past Dialogues
April 2, 2009: Building Local Capacity to Alleviate Poverty
March 31, 2009: The Impact of International Development on the Crisis in Sri Lanka
Feb. 25, 2009: Strings Attached? Conditionalities on Development Lending
Feb. 5, 2009: Challenges and Frontiers in the Provision of Global Reproductive Health Services
Nov. 19, 2008: An International, Multidisciplinary Look at Breastfeeding
Sept. 24, 2008: Street Children
Feb. 7, 2007: International Human Trafficking
Nov. 26, 2006: Trade
Nov. 8, 2006: Elections
Sept. 27, 2006: Energy
Apr. 19, 2006: Climate Change
Mar. 7, 2006: Non-Formal Education
Feb. 21, 2006: Immigration
Jan. 23, 2006: Media
Nov. 30, 2005: World Aids Day
Nov. 21, 2005: Hydropower
Oct. 10, 2005: Hurricane Katrina
WHAT WE DO
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