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Approaches to Global and Environmental Issues
Thursday, November 18, 3:00 pm EST, via Zoom
Over the past two weeks, world leaders have come together at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to discuss climate in a global context.
Join the Office of Global Affairs and Institute for Globalization Studies for an online panel discussion with Stony Brook faculty as they take a look at globalization and the environment from an interdisciplinary perspective.
This is an International Education Week Event.
Click here for more information, and here to register.
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PAST EVENTS
Le Siècle D'Or Espagnol (The Spanish Golden Age)
Guillaume Kientz, Director, Hispanic Society of America
Monday, November 15, 2021, Melville Library Special Collections Seminar Room.
Guiilaume Kientze, of the Hispanic Society, discussed his book on the Spanish Golden Age, moderated by Sophie Leroy with discussants Victor Roncero-Lopez and Fernando Loffredo.
Transregional ties that bind: men of power and men of learning across early modern persianate asia
Friday, Nov 5, 2021
You can view a recording of the event
here.
Mana Kia of Columbia University discussed how societies across early modern Central,
South, and West Asia were interconnected thanks to the circulation of texts, people,
practices, and ideas. The interaction between men of learning and men of power in
late-Mughal India was crucial to understanding transregional familiarity, social circulation,
and political formation.
Compendium of the world: Colonial manila and early modern worldmaking
Friday, Octber 8, 2021
You can view a recording of the event here.
Miguel Martínez from the University of Chicago discussed what the world looked like
from Manila in the first decades of Spanish colonization. By examining seventeenth-century
chronicles, sermons, poems, and urban festivals this talk explored the changing symbolic
geographies that emerged in the colonial city, imagined as the center of a new world
imagined anew.
GLOBALIZATION IN THE YEAR 1000
Friday, Sept 10, 2021
View the recorded version of the talk here.
Distinguished Yale historian Valerie Hansen discussed her book The Year 1000: When
Explorers Connected the World - And Globalization Began, in which she shows how bold
explorations and daring trade missions first connected all of the world's societies
at the end of the first millennium. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research, she
presents a
compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies, which sparked
conflict and collaboration eerily reminiscent of our contemporary moment.
Affective justice:
toward a new geopolitics
Thursday, Apr 8, 2021
View the recorded version of the talk here
Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke discussed her book,
Affective Justice, in which she explores the African Union's critique of the International Criminal
Court (ICC) - which African leaders see as a modern version of colonial violence and
control.
SBU ALUMNI PANEL:
MICROCREDENTIALS & INTERNATIONAL CAREER PATHS NOW POSSIBLE WITH GLI!
Wednesday, Mar 31, 2021
View the recorded version of the talk here
We featured three SBU alumni who went from graduating with an academic degree from our College of Arts and Sciences--History, Africana Studies, and Asian and Asian-American Studies--to pursuing an international career. How did they do that?
To learn how to transition from academia to the workforce and make the world your new playground, come and listen to their stories. Now with the GLI degrees, this path is made easier for you. With a BA in GLI or a GLI focus added to your MA in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, English, French and Italian, Hispanic Languages and Literature or in History, you will be prepared from the start!
"EXPLORING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL (IN)JUSTICE IN CARCERAL SPACES"
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2021
View the recorded version of the talk here
David Pellow is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental
Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In this lecture, he
presents his work, "Exploring Global Environmental (in)Justice in Carceral Spaces."
Graduate student panel:
"the united nations' sustainable development goals (sdgs) need you!"
Wednesday, Feb 10, 2021
View the recorded version of the talk here
Join our panelists Fernando Amador, Maria Grima, Jessica Kim, and Xiaoning Wu for
a discussion on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
FACULTY ROUNDTABLE: "ISLAM AND MOMENTS OF GLOBAL CONNECTIONS"
Thursday, Nov 19, 2020 at 1 p.m.
View the recorded version of the talk here
Join our panel of experts, Associate Professor Margarethe Adams (Department of Music), Lecturer Rosabel Ansari (Department of Asian and Asian American Studies), Assistant Professor Mohamad Ballan (Department of History), and Associate Professor Eric Lewis Beverley (Department of History) for a discussion on Islam and moments of global connection. This event will take place on November 19 at 1:00PM (ET).
IGS LECTURE INAUGURAL SERIES: "self-devouring growth"
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 at 3 p.m.
View the recorded version of the talk
here
Julie Livingston is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. Her work combines history, anthropology, and public health and contemplates the moral conditions, social practices, and African thought. Livingston’s talk on “Self-Devouring Growth”, derived from her book, contests the assumption that economic growth is a foundation of well-being and highlights the economic systems of the southern African nation of Botswana as an example.
gli inaugural alumni panel
Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2020 at 3 p.m.
Online through Zoom
View the recorded version of the event here
Hear from distinguished alumni who will share their career trajectories, global contributions, and some of the grand challenges their particular industry is facing at this time, as well as how people in their respective fields are making a difference in the world.
REVOLUTION: Structure and Meaning in World History
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019 at 5 p.m.
Social and Behavioral Sciences, Room N405
Said Amir Arjomand, Stony Brook University Distinguished Service Professor, presents
Revolution, which illuminates the stories of premodern rebellions from the ancient world, as
well as medieval European revolts and more recent events, up to the Arab Spring of
2011.
Co-sponsored by the History Department and the Institute for Globalization Studies. Reception to follow. Download the flyer.