Food Security Governance: talk w. Nora McKeon, past FAO civil

ood Security Governance: Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations Nora McKeon, Former civil society director, U.N. Food & Agriculture Organization, and Lecturer, Rome 3 University February 27, 2015, 3:00PM Bren Hall 4016, Environmental Studies Seminar Room co-sponsored by the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies and the UCSB Environmental Studies Program   Today’s global food system […]Read More

Symposium on Native Food Ways, Environmentialism, and Biocolonialism

Symposium on Native Food Ways, Environmentialism, and Biocolonialism March 6, 2015 8:30 to 5:00 McCune Conference Room, 6th Floor HSSB Keynote speakers: Dr. Debra Harry, founding director, Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism Dr. Andrea McComb-Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, affiliate faculty of the Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona Please join the American […]Read More

Politics, Business & Development in East Asia: Malaysia

Lecturer: Terence Gomez, Political Economy, Univeristy of Malaya, KL   A Mellichamp Speaker Series event, hosted by Mellichamp Professor Jan Nederveen-Pieterse Event Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015 – 4:00pm Reception to follow the lecture Speaker: Edmund Terence Gomez specializes in state-market relations and the linkages between ethnicity, politics and capital development. He received a doctorate […]Read More

Inequality in Germany

Boike Rehbein, Professor of Society and Transformation in Asia and Africa, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin The talk presents results of a comparative research project on social inequality in Brazil, Germany, Southeast Asia and India. Focusing on Germany, it argues that contrary to common knowledge, distinct class lines exist that are reproduced over many generations. It shows in […]Read More

Global Governance Symposium

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY, April 24th, 9:30-12:30 University Center ‘Flying A Studio’, UC Santa Barbara featuring: Madeline Baer, San Diego State University: “Water Politics, Rights, and Governance” Jennifer Ramos, Loyola Marymount University: “Global Security Issues in International Institutions” with comments by UCSB faculty: Mark Buntaine, Bren School of Environmential Science & Management Bridget Coggins, Department […]Read More

Policy Responses to the Global Rise of Asian Higher Education

Fazal Rizvi Graduate School of Education, Melbourne University Professor Fazal Rizvi’s academic background is in Philosophy, but it is in the areas of education, public policy and global studies that most of his research and teaching over the past decade is located. His strong international reputation is in the areas of racism and multicultural education, […]Read More

Globalization and Intercultural Contact: The Mattering and Production of Difference

Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong Co-sponsors: The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center The Department of Film & Media Studies The Department of Global Studies The Language & Social Interaction Research Focus Group The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies The Mellichamp Professors of Global Dynamics ABSTRACT A critical intercultural communication perspective adopted in this paper […]Read More

Global Climate Governance: What to expect from COP 21

ETHNOGRAPHIC AGITATIONS on the horizon of emergent global climate governance Dr. Richard Widick International Institute of Climate Action and Theory Visiting Research Scholar, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies Sponsored by the Orfalea Center Interdisciplinary Research Hub on Energy, Climate, and Sustainability Tuesday, May 19, 2015 — 1:00 PM Venue: SSMS 2135 With the 21st meeting […]Read More