Seminar Series

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars take place from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT & SUSTAINABILITY SPEAKERS' SERIES

2023-2024

The Rural Origins of the Modern State: Legibility, Reform and Revolution in the Andes

Dr. Javier Puente

Assosiate Professor of Latin American & Latino Studies

Chair of Latin American & Latino/a Studies

Smith College

Thursday, September 14, 2023 4:30pm-6:00pm

CANCELLED!

Oceans Apart: Global Governance Approaches to the Deep-Sea Strategic Frontier

Dr. Tabitha Grace Mallory

Founder and CEO, China Ocean Institute

Affiliate Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

University of Washington

Thursday, October 12, 2023 4:30pm-6:00pm

Room:

CORD 324

International Trade, Noise Pollution, and Killer Whales

(This talk is co-sponsored with the Department of Economics)

Dr. M. Scott Taylor

Professor of Economics, University of Calgary

Research Associate, the National Bureau of Economic Research

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Friday, February 16, 2024 3:30pm-5:00pm

Room:

WJWH 427

Strong Enough to Remove Dirt Skin: Coconut Soap, and Other Early Histories of Biofuels in the US and Mexico

Dr. Jayson M. Porter

Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environment and Society

Brown University

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Maryland, College Park

Thursday, March 7, 2024 4:30pm-6:00pm

Room:

CORD 349