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Meet and Greet the Community of Practice on Global Development
Please join MSU Global IDEAS and members of the Community of Practice on Global Development for this networking event on Zoom.
Faculty members from across campus who are engaged in international research for development will give short presentations about their work, followed by breakout discussions and time for networking.
Speakers at this networking event:
- Dr. Evangelyn Alocilja, Professor, Biosystems, And Agricultural Engineering
- Dr. Stephen L. Esquith, Dean, Residential College of Arts & Humanities
- Dr. Geoffrey Henebry, Professor, Geography Environment Spatial Sciences
- Dr. Krista Isaacs, Assistant Professor, Plant Soil And Microbial Sciences
- Dr. Anna Maria Santiago, Assoc. Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives, College of Social Sciences
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Femicide in Colonial and Post-Colonial India: A Study of Varanasi
Global Virtual Speaker Program
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
International Center Room 303
3:00 p.m. EDT
Globally, discrimination against women and girl children is rampant. But in some South Asian countries, it is manifested in its worst form – femicide, where a female child is eliminated before or immediately after birth. There is evidence of female infanticide in colonial India that continues in the post-colonial period in the form of female feticide. The issue will be discussed in the context of Varanasi, India because the city has been at the center of femicide in both eras.
Speaker: Professor Shweta Prasad is a professor in the Department of Sociology, since November 2015 and the Director of the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
This lecture is organized by Dr. Sejuti Das Gupta, James Madison College, co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Center through the Global Virtual Speaker Program, and is generously supported by the India Council, established at Michigan State University through donations primarily by the local Indian Community. The purposes of the India Council are to encourage and stimulate interest in India by promoting and supporting educational, cultural, and other activities like this program.
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Arab Muslim Women Poets: From Early Islam to Rabia, Ulayya, Wallada, and Others
Speaker: Wessam Elmeligi, Assistant Professor of Language, Culture, & the Arts University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Professor Elmeligi’s critical anthology, The Poetry of Arab Women from Pre-Islamic Times to Andalusia (Routledge 2019) presents more than 200 poets, marking the first time many of the poems have been translated or analyzed.
This event is organized by the Muslim Studies Program and cosponsored by Arabic Studies, Asian Studies Center, Center for Gender in Global Context, Department of History, Department of Religious Studies, and James Madison College
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16th Annual Muslim Studies Program Conference Measuring
Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres, and Squares
onference Dates: February 23-24, 2023
Conference Dates: February 23 - 24, 2023
Michigan State University, International Center
Michigan State University is hosting an international conference entitled “Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres, and Squares.” The conference investigates who is ‘the public’ in public opinion and what effect it has on politics. These questions have received a great deal of attention from scholars of American and European contexts where their contributions have taken on a universalistic overtone. Are these generalized assumptions valid in other societies – notably in Muslim-majority contexts? In addressing these questions, this conference aims to contribute to the interdisciplinary study of public opinion and ‘the public’ in Muslim contexts inside and outside of the Muslim world.
This event is organized by the MSU Muslim Studies Program.
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The Filipino Subjunctive: A Transpacific Counterhistory of Filipinization
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST
Weiser Hall 110
University of Michigan
Registration Link
Featuring Adrian De Leon, an award-winning writer and public historian in Los Angeles. He is an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a host for PBS Digital Studios and the Center for Asian American Media. His first academic book, Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press), retells the Longue durée of the U.S. empire and early Philippine migration through the native peoples of Northern Luzon. Professor Elmeligi’s critical anthology, The Poetry of Arab Women from Pre-Islamic Times to Andalusia (Routledge 2019) presents more than 200 poets, marking the first time many of the poems have been translated or analyzed.
In this talk, he will discuss how American counterinsurgency did not end after direct colonial rule but informed how people across the Pacific imagined how the future citizens of a soon-to-be independent Philippine nation might behave.
This event is organized by the U-M Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
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Living in the Anthropocene: Climate Framework and DRR Policies for Sustainable Development in Thailand
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Weiser Hall 110, University of Michigan
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
Registration Link
Objectives:
We dream of sustainable development, but on the other side, climate change has worsened the natural hazards and intensified disasters to vulnerable populations. The questions intended to answer the objectives in this online panel include: Are we now living in the Anthropocene? Have human beings permanently changed the planet? And how to understand climate change, disasters, and sustainable development in the Anthropocene?
Two panelists will be invited to this online panel to contextualize the Anthropocene in the Thai context (and from a global perspective).
- Panelist 1 (Climate Change): Dr. Chaya Vaddhanaphuti (Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University), as the first speaker will explain to us the anthropogenic activities that affect climate change in the Anthropocene and how Thailand (or regional countries) has prepared a climate framework to target sustainable development.
- Panelist 2 (Disasters): Dr. Wanwalee Inpin (School of Social Innovation, Mae Fah Luang University), as the second speaker will explain the threat of the more severe disasters to Thailand (or regional countries), particularly vulnerable populations, and if there are best practices of DRR policies to give hope for a sustainable future.
- Moderator: Aj. Maya Dania (School of Social Innovation, Mae Fah Luang University)
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