I received this from The Guelph Seminar. Thomas Homer-Dixon lectures are always very popular.
The Guelph Seminar is pleased to present a lecture by Thomas Homer-Dixon on Wednesday the 14th of May at Dublin St. United Church, Suffolk at Dublin St. at 7:30 p.m. on “Values and the Prospective Mind: Personal Resilience in a Volatile World”.
Admission: $10 ($5 students)
Thomas Homer-Dixon currently holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at University College, University of Toronto. He will leave that position this summer to become the first high-profile appointment for the fledgling Balsillie School of International Affairs, a partnership of the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University.
Thomas Homer Dixon’s recent research has focused on threats to global security in the 21st century and on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological, and technological change.
His books include The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Knopf, Island Press, 2006), which won the 2006 National Business Book Award, The Ingenuity Gap (Knopf, 2000), which won the 2001 Governor General’s Non-fiction Award, and Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton University Press, 1999), which won the Caldwell Prize of the American Political Science Association.
