National Seminar

 

On

International Studies: Paradigms for the New Millennium

 

31 July, 2002

 

Theme Statement

 

The Stella Maris College has planned and designed a thematic seminar entitled International Studies: Paradigms for the New Millennium to be held on July 31^st 2002. The seminar would be a seminal presentation of this academic discipline drawing participation from among the institutions of higher education viz; autonomous colleges in the city and the concerned departments of the University of Madras.

 

The structure of the program would feature a media curtain raiser that would precede the ambient inaugural session with the keynote address to be delivered by a former distinguished diplomat. The inaugural session would be followed by two technical sessions that would explore the vicissitudes of contemporary International Studies featuring expert presentations by academic, policy research and media specialists drawn from all over the country.

 

The primary objectives of this seminar would be the sensitizing of the present and prospective student community of the salience of International Studies as academic choice that offers value addition in teaching, research, media and corporate careers an avenue of challenge and motivation for excellence in an age of pervasive globalization.

Objectives:

 

Ø      The Paradigms of the New Millennium: Globalization and the New World Order

Ø      The Pathways of the New International Relations Theory

Ø      The Promise of Interdependence

Ø       The Parameters of Global Futures.