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Canceled: Global Indigenous Politics and Environmental Governance

Sponsored by:
International & Global Studies and Global Environmental Change
Indigenous nations are, under international law, not considered full legal persons. However, Indigenous nations have been actively engaged in global politics in a variety of issue areas, including environmental and water governance. For example, over the past 2 years, First Nations from around the world, including the Maori, Hopi, and Tohono O’odham, have been participating in the international Meeting of Sacred Waters, through which various Nations advance new understandings of society’s relationship to water and land, and new approaches to sustainable governance.
Open to the Public

Contemporary Russia Through a Diplomat's Eye

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian, International & Global Studies, and Russian and Eastern European Society
Diplomat Thomas Leary served in Russia at two very different periods: 1999-2004 and 2015-2019. His first term there came during the growing decline in U.S.-Russian relations and the difficult aftermath of Russia’s 1998 financial crisis. By the time Mr. Leary returned to St. Petersburg as U.S. Consul General in 2015, the freeze between the two countries was deepening because of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile at home Russia had become both much more prosperous and more authoritarian.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Queer Anthropology: A Dialogue

Sponsored by:
Religion, American Studies, International & Global Studies, Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Black Studies, and Global Gender & Sexuality
Erin Durban and Lucinda Ramberg, two feminist, queer, postcolonial scholars, will have a conversation about queer anthropology: What does it mean to queer anthropology? How can we do anthropology, as well as ethnographic methods more broadly, in a queer way and for queer purposes?

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

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The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti

Sponsored by:
Religion, American Studies, International & Global Studies, Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Black Studies, and Global Gender & Sexuality
Erin Durban, a scholar of queer anthropology, will discuss their book The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti. Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country’s traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

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