Special Events
Film Screening: Tejiendo Autonomía (Weaving Autonomy)
Event Time: Wed, 09/23/2020 - 3:00pmFilm Screening and Discussion with Director Julián Cortés
Joined by: Ferley Rodriguez, President of the Fortuna de Mutata Cooperative, composed of FARC ex-combatants. (Spanish-English translation by ICGC scholar Michael Soto)...
Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: The Role of Outsiders in the Current Crisis
Event Time: Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:00pmTalk by Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor Emeritus of History, Loyola University, Maryland
To outsiders, the word “Africa” often conjures up images of a continent in crisis, riddled with war and corruption, imploding from disease and starvation...
Changing the Ethnographic Museum in South Africa and Germany
Event Time: Thu, 10/24/2019 - 3:30pm to 5:00pmTalk by Ciraj Rassool, Professor of History, University of the Western Cape
Abstract: Over the last 15 years since South Africa became a democracy, the museum category of the ‘ethnographic’ came under severe scrutiny as a...
Black Radical Humanism and the Problem of Freedom
Event Time: Fri, 10/18/2019 - 4:00pmThe Institute for Critical Inquiry into Global Change presents:
"Black Radical Humanism and the Problem of Freedom"
Dr. Gary Wilder, The City University of New York
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Artists as Change Makers: Meet the artists in residence at the Weisman Art Museum
Event Time: Wed, 10/16/2019 - 3:00pm to 5:00pmArtists as Change Makers: meet the artists in residence at the Weisman
A conversation moderated by Boris Oicherman, Cindy and Jay Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative Collaboration, Weisman Art Museum
In 2010, Amoke Kubat ...
Inaugural Lecture: Institute for Critical Inquiry into Global Change: "On the Creation of 'New' World Humans"
Event Time: Fri, 04/26/2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pmInaugural Lecture of the Institute for Critical Inquiry into Global Change
"On the Creation of 'New' World Humans"
Presented by Dr. Gerard Aching, Cornell University
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"Dead in the Water": Global Lessons from the World Bank's Model Hydropower Project in Laos
Event Time: Fri, 11/30/2018 - 3:00amPresented by co-editors Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud
For decades, large dam projects have been undertaken by both nations and international agencies with the aim of doing good: preventing floods, bringing electricity to rural...
Youth Navigating the 21st Century City of Amman: Securing Education and Livelihoods
Event Time: Mon, 10/29/2018 - 10:30amFida Adely, Georgetown University and Betty Anderson, Boston University
In May and June of 2018, thousands of Jordanians took to the streets. What was initially a protest against a regressive tax bill, evolved into broader protests...
What is the University For?
Event Time: Mon, 10/15/2018 - 12:00pmDr. Premesh Lalu, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Wilkins Room, Humphrey 215
"What is the University For?"
Dr. Lalu's seminar will include a...
Designing Intersectional Policy for Inclusion of Afro-Peruvian Girls
Event Time: Mon, 10/08/2018 - 3:30pm to 5:00pmEliana Villar, "Designing Intersectional Policy for Inclusion of Afro-Peruvian Girls," Echida Scholar, Brookings Institution
How can educational policy be designed to...