February 17, 2021, 3:00 PM to May 12, 2021, 4:30 PM
Global Affairs program (GLOA) will host four distinguished speakers from different social science and humanities disciplines for its Spring 2021 colloquium series titled “Race and Globalization.” As an interdisciplinary program that offers courses on global issues and their regional and local implications, GLOA is proud to contribute to the Anti-Racism Initiative at Mason with this timely series. Speakers from Mason and other distinguished academic institutions will examine how complex policies, discourses, and practices around race shape our global world. GLOA hopes that the series will improve our understanding of how race is part of diverse economic, political, and cultural contexts—often in unacknowledged ways.
These events will be held 3:00-4:30 pm EST on Zoom, and the series will be open to all faculty members, students, and staff. More info will soon be available at the GLOA website at globalaffairs.gmu.edu.
Wednesday February 17, 2021, 3:00-4:30pm EST
Dr. Rick Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University
“Indigenous Belonging and Big Data Dispossession: The Globalization of Genome Science and its Anti-Indigenous Formations”
https://gmu.zoom.us/j/91731507030?pwd=MFErTjhLWU5LVlFDWXhWaUNyQytRUT09
Meeting ID: 917 3150 7030 | Passcode: 690737
Wednesday March 17, 2021, 3:00-4:30pm EST
Dr. LaNitra Berger
Senior Director, Office of Fellowships, Office of Undergraduate Education; Affiliate Faculty, African and African American Studies Program, George Mason University
“Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art”
https://gmu.zoom.us/j/98137464371?pwd=aFVzYk95MEltd0w3TXA2bDBZUTE0Zz09
Meeting ID: 981 3746 4371 | Passcode: 362355
Wednesday April 21, 2021, 3:00-4:30pm EST
Dr. Catherine Besteman
Francis F. Bartlet and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, Colby College
”Militarized Global Apartheid and Security Empires”
https://gmu.zoom.us/j/92492613542?pwd=WDVaMzZoNzJCT1pwL2NET2M0VTNEdz09
Meeting ID: 924 9261 3542 | Passcode: 728056
Wednesday May 12, 2021, 3:00-4:30pm EST
Dr. Mohan Ambikaipaker
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University
"The Coloniality of Race and Majoritarian Islamism in Malaysia”
https://gmu.zoom.us/j/92618994354?pwd=b2Rmb2JHQkFPVTR6b2FlY0FSWmtpUT09
Meeting ID: 926 1899 4354 | Passcode: 214371
