http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/international-relations.html International relations and collaborations headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/international-relations.html 88 31 Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/china-forum-tt0507.html MIT will kick off a new monthly lecture series on China with a May 14 talk by Yingyi Qian, dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and professor of economics at UC Berkeley. Qian will speak about China's economic transformation. Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/china-forum-tt0507.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-cambodia-tt0507.html Alan Lightman, MIT physicist and writer, and his wife, Jeanne, made a pact a decade or so ago to turn their energies toward humanitarian pursuits. The latest of their efforts is a dream come true for residents of a small Cambodian village -- a new mosque. Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-cambodia-tt0507.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-peru-tt0430.html Students and faculty from MIT's CityScope class visited a small Peruvian town over spring break to learn about the earthquake-stricken city's needs and how they might help restore water supplies, health-care and a sense of community. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-peru-tt0430.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/poverty-edwards-0418.html The global problems of climate change, population growth and severe poverty are so enormous that no one country can solve them alone, John Edwards told attendees at a student-organized conference on global poverty at MIT. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/poverty-edwards-0418.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/poverty-tt0416.html Former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards will be among the speakers at an MIT conference April 18-20 involving more than 1,000 students from around the country dedicated to fighting the problems of extreme poverty in the world. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/poverty-tt0416.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-abudhabi-tt0416.html Abu Dhabi is taking the long view, planning for a future beyond oil. The most dramatic piece of the emirate's plans is its creation of a whole new city from scratch, centered on an institute of technology modeled after, and created in collaboration with, MIT. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-abudhabi-tt0416.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0409.html John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, teased out the threads connecting cultures of war from individual nations' densely woven rhetoric about victory in his Killian award lecture, presented Monday, April 7, at MIT. Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0409.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0402.html John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, will speak on "Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq" at the 36th annual Killian Award lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in Kirsch Auditorium. Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0402.html