On October 31st, 2023, the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, directed by Professor Paul Amar, hosted a live webinar international conference aimed at raising awareness about the currently unfolding war and crisis in Sudan and keeping the inspiring consciousness and leadership models of the Sudanese revolution of 2019 alive. In 2019, a popular […]Read More
All Podcasts Nubia Podcast Series – Episode 1: Nubia Is Still Alive Today: Omar Mansour December 12, 2023 Tunisia Series Episode 1: “Tunisia’s Amatuer Autocrat: The Rise of Kais Omar Mansour January 4, 2024 Global Activism and the Particulars of Combating Police Violence – An Omar Mansour January 4, 2024 Pedagogy and The Freedom School […]Read More
https://youtu.be/tFKEknKwzIU?si=5PDuKoe3Mty0PJpX On October 31st, 2023, the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, directed by Professor Paul Amar, hosted a live webinar international conference aimed at raising awareness about the currently unfolding war and crisis in Sudan and keeping the inspiring consciousness and leadership models of the Sudanese revolution of 2019 alive. In 2019, a […]Read More
Episode 1 – Nubia Is Still Alive Today: Identity, Memory and Liminality in Displacement While enduring various waves of migration displacements and cultural and political marginalization, Nubians have been living in a liminal space of collective memory, nostalgia, and reconstructed identities. In Egypt, after the displacement of 1964, Nubians are now dispersed in a […]Read More
Future Infrastructure: From Research to Pedagogy Surojit Kayal Origin Last year in Spring 2023, my colleague and former fellow of the Future Infrastructure cluster, Stephen Borunda and I were fortunate to teach a class titled Deserts, Islands, and Other Energy Infrastructures at the UCSB College of Creative Studies through their Crossroads 2.0 fellowship program. We […]Read More
Egypt’s Unique Sound: The Political Economy of Mahraganat Dance Music This episode touches on the origins of Egyptian mahraganat music, a popular electro-street music, as well as discusses song production, media technologies, political dimensions, and distribution, both local and transnational. This episode will also look at the importance of Egyptian ashwaiyyat, or informal neighborhoods, as […]Read More
In the 2022-2023 academic year UCSB undergraduate students were selected from a pool of applicants to participate in the exceptional seminar, Global Studies 196. This advanced class also awarded each undergrad student participant with the honor of serving as Orfalea Center Fellows. The Global Studies Department at UCSB, in collaboration with the Orfalea Center for […]Read More
Looking for Ways out of the Amazon Crisis from an Indigenous Perspective The Orfalea Center invites you to a special film screening of an incredibly powerful and timely documentary, Stepping Softly on the Earth, directed and produced by Marcos Colon, on October 26th, 2023 at 6:00 PM. This film screening will be followed by a […]Read More
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE UCSB, McCune Conference Room – 6020 HSSB. October 25 – 27 The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, directed by Prof. Paul Amar, welcomes you to the international conference “The Future of the Amazon.” This event is open to the public and will grant certificates of participation/completion to students (high school and […]Read More
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