Day: <span>December 22, 2020</span>

Gaza Community Mental Health Programme – Global Futures: Uncertainty, Displacement,

Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Futures: Uncertainty, Displacement, Security Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) Established in 1990, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) is a leading non-profit civil organization in the fields of mental health and human rights in Palestine. Guided by the principles of justice and human rights, GCMHP strives to improve […]Read More

Media Coverage – Environmental Justice/Climate Justice

Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Environmental Justice/Climate Justice Media Coverage Prof. Alenda Chang, articles about the connections between video games and climate change:   Melissa Kagen, “If you need to go for a walk … why not wander around a video game?” The Guardian, April 16, 2020   Lewis Gordon, “The Many Ways Video Game Development […]Read More

Mboti Lecture: “Closing the Loophole” – Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation

Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation “Closing the Loophole” Lecture An Introduction to Apartheid Studies Nyasha Mboti is the founder of the new field: Apartheid Studies. His 4-volume treatise on the subject, Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto (2021), is published by Africa World Press. Nyasha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication […]Read More

People – Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation

Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster​ Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation Dr. Mhoze Chikowero Professor Chikowero teaches and researches African cultural, social and economic histories with a specialization on Southern Africa. His work particularly centers African perspectives, methodologies, epistemologies and forms of selfcraft that have long been marginalized by Northern epistemologies that reify the colonial written archive as […]Read More

MATAI: A Global South Zine​ – Global Genders and Sexualities

Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities MATAI/FRINGES MATAI in Meiteilon language translates as periphery which echoes the peripherality and marginality of the Global South. The Zine brings to the fore peripheral issues of the Global South vis-à-vis the Global North and also within itself. This issue COVID 19 IN NORTHEAST INDIA documents […]Read More