Fall 2021 Global Studies Lecture Series - Open to the Public

Each lecture in the series, which begins September 14 and continues through December 7, is free and open to the public. The series is also a one-credit course (ARSC300) that is a core course for the Global Studies major and minor. (Note: Students enrolled in the course will attend an additional class on September 7.)

Taught and moderated by Keerthi Potluri from the Department of English, the course will explore whether a cosmopolitan orientation to the world can help us better understand our obligations to others and how globalization shapes these relationships. Health equity, climate change, migration, citizenship, and more will be addressed in lectures by faculty from across and beyond UD.

All lectures are via Zoom and open to the public – all are welcome. For those not in enrolled in the class who would like to attend the lectures, please RSVP each week to potluri@udel.edu.

Public lectures are as follows:

• September 14: The Current Crisis of Global Cosmopolitanism — Daniel Kinderman, Political Science, UD
  
• September 21: Environmental Politics and Outer Space — Julie Klinger, Geography and Spatial Sciences, UD
  
• September 28: A Boundless Electronic Platform: Radio Connections in North America During the 20th Century — Sonia Robles, History, UD
  
• October 5: Contingent Solidarities and the Futures of India's Forests — Anand Vaidya, Anthropology, Reed College
  
• October 12: Challenges of Scale and Equity in Climate Adaptation — A.R. Siders, Disaster Research Center | Biden School of Public Policy and Administration | Geography and Spatial Sciences, UD
• October 19: The Political Life of Shame: The Struggle to Reopen New Orleans's Public Hospital Post-Katrina — Siri Colom, Sociology, Worcester State University 
• October 26: Global Health Equity in a Post-Pandemic World — Jennifer Horney, Epidemiology (Disaster Research Center), UD
  
• November 2: Poetic Planetarity: On the Limits and Possibilities of Literary Cosmopolitanism — Sookyoung Lee, English, St. Lawrence University
  
• November 9: How Cosmopolitan Was the "Golden Ghetto"? Resident American Merchants' Ideas About Community in Early 19th-century Guangzhou — Dael Norwood, History, UD
  
• November 16: Literature as Resistance: Latin American and Latinx Literatures in the Face of Climate Change — Jessica Jones, English, UD
  
• November 30: After Displacement: Engaging Development in the Quest for Viable Resettlement in Rural Western India — Vikramaditya Thakur, Anthropology, UD
  
• December 7: Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes — Medina Jackson-Browne, Epidemiology, UD