Announcing the Global Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2021 Schedule:
The Department of Global Studies' Colloquium Series is a lecture series, which has been made possible by the generosity of the Orfalea Endowment for the Master's Program in Global Studies. The Colloquium Series strives to open and explore a wide range of interdisciplinary debates and their interaction and engagement with the global, hosting new guest speakers each quarter from UCSB and beyond. Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse is currently the Director of the Colloquium Series. For more information, please contact our Orfalea Colloquium Fellow Brett Aho at: brettaho@ucsb.edu
When? Various Wednesdays, 12:30-2pm
Where? Zoom link https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84246564996 (talks will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel)
Who? The Global Studies Colloquium Series is open to everyone interested in attending the talks.
UPCOMING EVENTS (WINTER QUARTER 2021)
January 13, 2021
Dr. Nick Jepson, University of Manchester
In China’s wake: How the commodity boom transformed development strategies in the global South
January 20, 2021
Dr. Adalberto Cardoso / Dr. Thiago Peres, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro
Covid-19 response patterns in Brazil and South America
January 27, 2021
Dr. Tommaso Durante, University of Melbourne
The global and the visual: Images shape people’s common sense of the global
February 3, 2021
Dr. Mark Swilling, University of Stellenbosch
Africa and Covid-19: Ways forward
February 10, 2021
Dr. Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
Communal violence and visuality in India: Partition, 1984 and Modi’s India
February 17, 2021
Dr. Oumar Ba, Morehouse College
States of Justice: The politics of the International Court
February 24, 2021
Dr. John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield
Multicultural origins of the global economy
March 3, 2021
Dr. Jernej Habjan, Ljubljana
World literature imagined worldwide
March 10, 2021
Dr. Ricado Jacobs, UCSB
Rethinking the agrarian question in the 21st century