Global Fridays started in the Fall semester 2006. It serves as a forum for faculty and students interested in all things ‘global’. It brings internationally renowned speakers to UNBC to talk on their research and provides an opportunity for UNBC faculty to share their research findings. 

Meeting six to eight times a semester, it is open to all and covers a wide range of topics and disciplines.

Global Fridays meets  from noon – 1:30 p.m. Join us for some new perspectives on global processes. From September 2024, Global Fridays will be run by a team consisting of:

• Co-Chair, Dr. Gabrielle Daoust (Global and International Studies)
• Co-Chair, Dr. Gary Wilson (Political Science)
• Dr. Max Hamon (History)
• Dr. Luna KC (Global and International Studies)
• Dr. Heather Smith (Global and International Studies)

If you have suggestions for speakers, please let any one of them know or email globalfriday@unbc.ca

Winter 2025 Global Friday Speaker Series presents:

January 24 - Dr. Gail Fondahl, PhD, (Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia)- A Fractured North: Musings on Coping with the Closure of the Russian North to Scholars

January 31- Rheanna Robinson, (Associate Professor, First Nations Studies, University of Northern British Columbia) An affront to reconciliation: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s Track 2 MAiD

February 7-Edward Akuffo, (Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Political Science, University of the Fraser Valley)-Africa's Geopolitical Space and Canada-Africa Relations in a Shifting Global Order

February 28 - Vanda Felbab-Brown, (Senior Fellow, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings)-Drugs, Security, and Tariffs in Mexico

March 14 - Dr. Erin Baines, (Associate Professor, Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia) -Inter generational Witnessing and Children Born of War

March 21 -Dr. Dawit Guta, (Professor, School of Economics, University of British Columbia) - Adoption and Transition to Clean Cooking Fuels in the Low and Middle-Income Countries: The case of Liquified Petroleum Gas in rural India

March 28 -Robert Baines (President and CEO, NATO Association of Canada) Canada and NATO in a Uncertain World

April 4 - Allan Downey (Associate Professor in the Department of History and Indigenous Studies Department at McMaster University) Resurgent Histories:  Indigenous Storytelling in a Digital Age

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