The Global Dimensions of Religious Othering
Organizers: Professors Kathie Moore and Mark Juergensmeyer Abstract: The topic of religious othering — stereotyping of people of other faiths in a prejudicial way — has become an aspect of nationalist politics and social conflict around the world. At Goettingen University in Germany and UC Santa Barbara in the United States, the […]
The Great Chernobyl Acceleration
On February 8th at 12PM, Dr. Kate Brown will provide a public lecture on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion in 1986, often described as “mankind’s biggest nuclear accident”. Brown argues that the nuclear accident represents only an exclamation point in a chain of toxic exposures that remastered the landscape, […]
Research Agendas for the Study of Terrorism Workshop
The Orfalea Center is bringing together leading scholars of terrorism to focus on research agendas for deepening our collective understanding of terrorism, counterterrorism, media presentations and public perceptions of the problem of terrorism and responses to it. […]
Fukushima + Eight: Lessons from Citizen Science in Japan
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese state has assembled technologies of decontamination and monitoring that fundamentally reconfigured the environment, together with its human and non-human inhabitants. In the eight years since, civic organizations across Asia have enlisted citizen science to grapple with the uncertainties of […]
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Critical Studies on Terrorism Special Section
An upcoming special section of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism will feature articles from participants of the After After 9/11 Working Group hosted by the Orfalea Center’s Global Security Hub. The six articles assembled in the special section interrogate the important question, “Is there an After, After 9/11?” from a number of […]
Lella Nouri, visiting Fulbright Scholar, receives Rising Star Award
Dr. Lella Nouri, Lecturer of Criminology at Swansea University and former visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at UCSB, received the Rising Star (Early Career Researcher) Award at Swansea University’s 2018 Research and Innovation Awards. […]
Speaking Rights: The Ethos of Human Rights and the Crisis of Cosmopolitanism
On March 28, 2018 The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace invited Professor Alison Brysk to give a lecture on Speaking Rights: The Ethos of Human Rights and the Crisis of Cosmopolitanism as part of The Ethical Foundations of Human Rights Conference at the University of Maryland. More information about the The […]