News and Events

"Creating Effective Public Policies in Nigeria: Benefits of Agricultural Extension Services"

4:30 PM

Toyib Aremu is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vermont’s program in sustainable development policy, economics and governance. His dissertation focuses on the use of scientific evidence to support the agricultural development policy-making process in Nigeria. He has experience in analyzing nationally representative household surveys, supporting multi-stakeholder processes and researching the welfare impact of smallholder farmer access to advisory services.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104

Open to the Public

International Politics & Economics and International & Global Studies - Commencement 2024 Reception

4:30 PM

Commencement reception for International Politics & Economics and International & Global Studies seniors and their families.

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries are Reshaping Emerging Economies

4:30 PM

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries are Reshaping Emerging Economies” by Eduardo J. Gómez, professor in the Department of Community and Population Health and director of the Institute of Health Policy and Politics, Lehigh University.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium: Feminism, Fascism and the Future Luncheon

3:00 PM

Agniezska Graff - “Anti-gender politics: traditionalism, illiberalism, or neo-fascism?”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium: Feminism, Fascism and the Future Coffee Break

2:45 PM

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium: Feminism, Fascism and the Future Luncheon

2:00 PM

Nicole Morse - “Desantis vs Gender Studies: Fascism in the Freest State in the Nation”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium: Feminism, Fascism and the Future Coffee Break

1:45 PM

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium: Feminism, Fascism and the Future Lunheon

1:00 PM

Karina Barena Barajas - “Anti-gender movements in Latin America: a genealogy between neoconservatism and post-facism”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium: Feminism, Fascism and the Future Luncheon

12:00 PM

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium: Feminism, Fascism and the Future

11:00 AM

Julianna Neuhouser - “The Strange Marriage of Right-Wing Anti-Gender Ideology Activists and Trans-exclusionary Feminists”

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium: Feminism, Fascism and the Future

10:00 AM

Siobhan Guerrero Mc Manus - “Discursive and political convergences between the New Right and Trans-exclusionary Feminism”

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium Podcast: Feminism, Fascism and the Future

5:00 PM

Snacks and Silent Listening Podcast Party

BYOE (Bring Your Own Earphones) for an opening of the podcast “Feminism, Fascism & the Future.” Some of the makers of this podcast will talk about the process of tracing the global rise of anti-gender ideology movements in podcast form. Then you can go listen to whatever episode you want (and bonus: many of our speakers for the conference are in these episodes)!

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities

4:30 PM

Building from the approach to decolonization and abolition in the Haitian Revolution as well as from Frantz Fanon’s view of combative decolonization and decoloniality, the presentation makes the case for the abolition of the humanities as a crucial component of the project for decolonizing knowledge today.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Putin’s Wars : How once the West’s Sweetheart got us into WWIII

7:30 PM

Yevgenia Albats, Yevgenia Albats, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

— a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host — will talk about Russian society and politics in the context of Russia’s invasion of, and ongoing war in, Ukraine.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public