UNBC Global Friday Speakers Series
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. International speakers have included: Walden Bello (University of the Philippines), Boris Kagarlitsky (Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow), Pun Ngai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Jose Pablo Baraybar (President, Latin American Association of Forensic Anthropologists).
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 pm. Join us for some new perspectives on global processes. From September 2023, Global Fridays will be run by a team consisting of:
Dr. Gabrielle Daoust (Global and International Studies)
Dr. Sara Farhan (History)
Dr. Max Hamon (History)
Dr. Luna KC (Global and International Studies)
Dr. Fiona MacDonald (Political Science)
Dr. Heather Smith (Global and International Studies)
Dr. Gary Wilson (Political Science)
If you have suggestions for speakers, please let any one of them know.
Winter 2024 Global Friday Speaker Series Presents
January 26th - Dr. Davide Panagia (Professor and Chair, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles) - After Free Speech: #datapolitik and the Failures of Liberalism
February 2nd - Dr. Emmanuel Chilanga (Assistant Professor, Social Work, UNBC) - Accessibility of Sanitary Facilities Among Food Sellers in African Secondary Cities: Implications for Food Safety and Urban Planning Policies
March 1st - Dr. Nick Dorzweiler (Senior Professor, Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Wheaton College) - “Human Nature in Action”: Harold Lasswell, NBC Radio, and the Psychotherapy Program for the American Masses
March 8th - Dr. Chamindra Weerawardhana (Co-found and Action Director: Consortium for Intersectional Justice; Commissioner: O’Neill-LANCET Commission on Structural Racism in Global Health) - Decolonial Feminist Worldmaking in the Age of Fascism
March 15th - Dr. Paulo Ravecca (Assistant Professor, Political Science, Saint Mary's University) - TBA
March 22nd - Dr. Jenanne Ferguson (Associate Professor, Anthropology, Economics and Political Science, MacEwan University) - The City as a New Language Stronghold? Sakha Language Practices in Yakutsk in the 2020s
April 5th - Dr. Pedro Monaville (Associate Professor, History, McGill University) - Student Power, Decolonization, and Worldmaking
Fall 2023 Global Friday Speaker Series Presents
September 27th - Dr. Imre Szeman (FISSSH Visiting Research Professor): Philanthrocapitalists, Entrepreneurs, and Renewable Societies; or, How Bill Gates Sees Energy Transition
October 13th - Dr. Luna KC (Assistant Professor, Global and International Studies, UNBC): Does War Transform Gender Roles and Gender Equality Agenda? Women’s Mobilization in Armed Conflict
October 27th - Dr. Jeanette Ashe (Chair, Department of Political Science, Douglas College): 'Hybrid Parliaments as Gender and Diversity Sensitive Parliaments'
November 3rd - Dr. Alda Benjamen (Assistant Professor, History, University of Dayton): Book Talk: Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Change
November 15th - Dr. Paul Bowles (Professor, Global and International Studies UNBC): Around Parts of the World in 43 Years
A joint talk with the FISSSH Professorial Lecture Series
November 24th - Kim Richard Nossal (Professor Emeritus, Queen's University): Canada Alone? The Enduring Challenge of America First
December 1st - Dr. Noa Shaindlinger (Assistant Professor, History, Worcester State University): Exile and the Burden of the Future: The Politics of Hope in Palestine
