International & Global Studies

The Promise and Peril of Big Dams in Africa and the Middle East, 1955-1970

HYBRID EVENT: Robert A. Jones ‘59 Conference Room and Zoom
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “Japan, 1972: Consumer Nation” by Yoshikuni Igarashi.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Global Health Governance: Emergent Practices, Policy, and Research in Canada and the World” by Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Power, Wealth, and Global Political Economy presents “From Growth to Glut: The Four Ds Shaping China’s Economy and Global Geopolitics” by Zongyuan Zoe Liu.

This talk will present a framework - 4 Ds (debt, demand, demographics, and de-risking/de-coupling) - for understanding China’s economic challenges and their implications for the rest of the world. It will also explain the structural forces that have led to China’s recurring overcapacity challenge and how Chinese firms are coping with these challenges.

Current and prospective IGST Majors, please join us to socialize with fellow IGST Majors, Program Director, Track Directors and other IGS faculty. We will also talk about the various tracks, navigating through the major and the IGST website, study abroad, writing a thesis, among other topics. 

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents Kelebogile Zvobgo and “From Victims to Peace Builders: Challenging Dominant Views of Women in Conflict.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “The View from the Border: US Migration Policy and the Presidential Election” by Dr. Gabriella Sanchez.

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. In her new book, Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University) draws upon hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade to probe an intimate and universal question. What is home? Syrians now on five continents share stories of leaving, losing, searching, and finding (or not finding) home.

Remarks for seniors and their families in the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) Room 125.

The Middle of Somewhere: Place Attachment and the Geographies of Being
Place attachment is a burgeoning field of scholarship that investigates place identities and their relation to mobility and migration. Professor Alexander Diener’s research project considers people’s varied capacities to make and remake place attachments, and how this shapes everyday routines, social interactions, major life choices, and identities at different scales. His talk will engage with topics such as home/homeland, mobility/immobility, biological geographies, sacred place, and moral geographies.