Global Studies Seminar

About the Series

global studies seminar series

The Global Studies Seminar Series is an interdisciplinary intellectual forum for the Denison community to discuss and debate academic and policy issues of global importance. Speakers from the Denison faculty as well as guest scholars are invited to present their recently published (or work in progress) research. In the spirit of the liberal arts, we strive to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of complex global challenges, and we work hard to try to balance the lecture series coverage with topics/speakers from the humanities, arts, sciences, and social sciences.

The seminars are held on Monday nights at 7:30-9 PM and are open and free to the public.

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2016 - 2017

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Jason Busic presenting “Language, Religion, and Identity in Medieval Iberia: the Arabic Gospels.”

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Taina Wewer presenting "Education as part of welfare policy in Finland."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Ron Emoff presenting "Clinton, Bush, and Hussein in the Courts of Kings: Tromba Spirit Possession in Madagascar."

Photo of a scene from “Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Screening Black Femininity in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Cinema”

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Diana Mafe presenting "Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Veerendra Lele presenting "Toward an ethnography of soccer."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Michael Mayne presenting "Martin Luther King, the Chicago Freedom Movement and Lessons for Today."

The Global Studies Seminar presents "Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Learning about Globalization in Sri Lanka."

The Global Studies Seminar presents "Strategies to Facilitate the Transformation of Developing Countries: A Focus on Ghana."

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Dr. Gregory Kulacki presenting "The Risk of Nuclear War Between the United States and China.

The Global Studies Seminar presents "The Construction of a Poverty Impact Index in a Global Value Chain."

The Global Studies Seminar presents a discussion about language attitudes towards Arabic code switching.

The Global Studies Seminar presents a discussion of the main characteristics and history of traditional Chinese music.

The Global Studies Seminar presents a talk about exploring an alternative way of characterizing the world economy.

The Global Studies Seminar presents a talk about understanding citizenship in the world society.

2015 - 2016

The Global Studies Seminar presents a talk titled 'Civic Disobedience' by author and international urban planning expert Jon Calame.

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes JoEllen Pederson, senior Alana Murray and K. Russell Shekha to speak about understanding citizenship in society.

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Gabriele Dillmann presenting "Making Language Relevant:The Current Refugee Crisis in the Globally Connected German..."

The Global Studies Seminar features professor Ron Abram to speak about "Fascination with the Foreigner: New Prints Made in Berlin and Dresden, Germany."

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Robin Chapdelaine presenting "The British Social Welfare Office: The Case of Juvenile Labor, Reform..."

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Denison professor Shao-yun Yang to speak about "Islam and Muslims Through Medieval and Early Modern Chinese Eyes."

Umeshi Rajeendra '13 presents a Global Studies Seminar titled "Transforming the Fruit: A Resurgence of Dance Education."

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Christopher Hemmig from OSU to speak about "Slavery in the 21st Century: The Case of Mauritania."

Global Studies Seminar welcomes Pranav Jani from OSU presenting "Racism, Militarism, Poverty: MLK's 'Triple Evils' and the Struggle Today."

The Global Studies Seminars, welcomes Professor Olivia Aguilar presenting, "Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development"

The Global Studies Seminars welcomes Professor Christine Weingart presenting, "The Ebola outbreak: Where are we now?"

The Global Studies Seminars welcomes Professor Michael Tangeman presenting a lecture, "EnJoe Toh: Butterflies and Literary Experimentation."

2014 - 2015

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Sandra Mathern and Souleymane Badolo presenting "I am Relative to You: Contemporary Dance in Burkina Faso."

Global Studies Seminar welcomes Matthew Rosen and "Reading the Readers: The ‘Footpath Library’ as a Site of Cultural Assertion in Once- Provincial City."

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Trey Proctor presenting, "Female Slave Litigants, Gendered Rhetoric, and Abuse in Colonial Lima, Peru."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Xiao Jiang and Luis Villanueva presenting "Smith, Malthus, and Recent Evidences in Global Population Dynamics."

The Global Studies Seminar features Kirk Combe discussing Stephen Colbert and Sangeet Kumar examining the grammar of contention on the Indian web.

The Denison University MLK celebrations and the Global Studies Seminar welcome Rick Polhamus presenting "Peacemaking in Palestine."

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Liam Anderson presenting "The Rise of ISIS: Implications for the Future of Iraq.”

Social classes in Iran and Turkey

The Global Studies Seminars presents Professor Sohrab Behdad and Professor Farhad Nomani, "Reconfiguration of Social Classes in Iran and Turkey."

David Greene

The Global Studies Seminar welcomes educator David Green presenting, "Unfit to be a Slave: The Revolutionary Role of Education in Social Transformation."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Melanie Finney presenting "Northern Ireland's Continuing Quest for Peace."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Awad Halabi presenting "From Coup d’états to Alliances: The US Involvement in the Middle East Since WWII."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Ziad Abu-Rish presenting "Jordan, the Arab Uprisings, and the Legacies of State Formation."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Susan Diduk presenting “The Political Economy of Corporate Largess: Social Responsibility, Corporations...”

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The Global Seminar Series welcomes Smoki Musaraj presenting: "Corruption Indicators, Global Governance and Local Political Drama."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Pierre Dairon presenting "Acadie XXI: Reimagining a Transnational Diaspora."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Micaela Vivero presenting "(Im)possible Interventions."

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Ping Yang presenting "Chinese Philosophy and Human Communication."

2013 - 2014

Global Studies Seminar welcomes Nestor Matthews presenting "Neural Correlates of In-Group & Out-Group Classifications.”

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Global Studies Seminar welcomes Gabi Mkhize presenting “Rural Women’s Movement: Challenges and Barriers to Women’s Organizing and Empowerment.”

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Global Studies Seminar welcomes Charles St-Georges presenting on Mexican horror films.

Global Studies Seminar welcomes Charlotte Karem Albrecht presenting "Peddling an Arab American History".

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Global Studies Seminar welcomes Beti Ellerson presenting "The Black Woman in the French Imaginary””

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Global Studies Seminar welcomes Xiao Jiang presenting " China and the Great Trade Collapse: Gender and Employment Effects from EU and US Trade.”

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The Global Studies Seminar welcomes Jennifer Magro Algarotti presenting "Wilderness and other 'Others': Figurations of the Nature/Culture Split."

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