International & Global Studies IGST

Photograph of Ewan Robinson

Family Trees and Paper Uncles: Customary Land Rights, Hybrid Formalization, and the Forestry Boom in Southern Tanzania

Come hear how village residents, local officials, and urban investors draw on customary norms, family networks, and bureaucratic documents in order to conduct land sales and to produce vast areas of commercial forestry in Tanzania.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 338

Open to the Public

Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola

In this talk, Greenhalgh (Professor of Chinese Society Emerita at Harvard University) tells the story of how, during 1995-2015, industry leader Coca-Cola mobilized allies in academia to create a soda-defense science that would protect profits by advocating exercise, not dietary restraint, as the priority solution to obesity, a view few experts accept.

Munroe 311

Open to the Public

Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago

This lecture by Jason Springs (Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame) introduces a novel understanding of what restorative justice is and how it should be implemented. It explores the ways in which restorative justice ethics and practices exhibit moral and spiritual dynamics, and what difference such “lived religious” dynamics can make in transforming structural violence.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

IGS Majors Reception

The IGS program welcomes majors, prospective majors, and faculty to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. The reception is also meant as a way for students returning from abroad to reconnect with friends and professors.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Closed to the Public

Think like a Hacker: Proactive security in the cloud

Join us for an engaging discussion on Cyber Crime and Adversarial Cybersecurity with special guest Roei Sherman, an Israeli information security professional, an expert in Cloud Incident Response and adversarial cybersecurity.

Explore the evolving threats in the digital world and the strategies used to combat them.

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