Journeys Lecture

Monday, October 27th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing Auditorium, 136A Baker Hall
Bill Reinert, Toyota Motor Sales, USA
Mobility in the 21st Century: Challenges and Promises
Bill Reinert is National Manager of Advanced Technology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA. His primary function is to coordinate Toyota’s various research, development and marketing activities related to alternative-fueled vehicles and emerging technologies. He is currently working on several advanced hybrid electric products, direct hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, reformed fuel approaches for hydrogen, full-featured electric vehicles, city electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid concepts, ethanol fuels and sustainable transportation systems.

Thursday, October 30th
JOURNEYS LECTURE - First this semester
4:30pm – McConomy Auditorium, UC
Mary Catherine Bateson, Writer and cultural anthropologist; Robinson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; President, Institute for Intercultural Studies; Author of “Composing a Life”
The Changing Shapes of Lives
Just as an extended childhood made possible the human pattern of learning and transmitted knowledge and tradition, extended longevity suggests profound changes for our species. Some of these changes can be recognized in the study of individual lives that are often longer and more diverse than in the past and that depend on continuing learning.
We will need to rethink education from the earliest years and to restructure the relations between generations. At the same time, we need to think differently about time, to prepare for surprises, and to fashion a new rhetoric of hope and responsibility.
Booksigning to follow lecture.
Friday, October 31st
INDIA TODAY course opening session
(Lectures open to the public but seating limited - preference to enrolled students)
5-8 pm- Porter Hall 100
5:30-6:30 Sunil Wadhwani, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder, iGate Corporation
An Entrepreneur's perspective on India: Industry, Innovation and Education

6:30- 8 Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of India Political Economy, Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs
Booksigning to follow lecture.