The Global Studies Center and the Humanities Center invites the university community to participate in this year’s lecture series: Empire and Imperialism.

Throughout the year, we bring internationally-renowned scholars to campus to speak to our theme from their own (inter)disciplinary perspectives. Each of our guests presents a public lecture on Thursday afternoon at 5pm. This year’s seminar features four visitors:

Nov. 17: Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College
Public lecture: Imperial Amnesia: Reparations, Global Justice, and Why History Matters
Cathedral of Learning 602

Jan. 26: Fred Cooper, NYU
Public Lecture: Political Rights, Social Rights, and the Decolonization of Africa
Cathedral of Learning 602

Feb. 16: Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University
Public Lecture: Salt Assault: Towards an Aesthetic of the Ambulatory
Cathedral of Learning 602

Mar. 23: Laura Doyle, UMass (Amherst)
Public Lecture: Reframing Political Subjectivity: Inter-imperial World, Interdisciplinary Method
Posvar Hall 4130

Everyone is welcome to attend the public lectures.