EUC Seminar: The spectre of the crowd: Liberal democracy and the fear of the masses with Dr. Hannah Richter This talk will present key arguments and first findings from ongoing research into the way crowd psychology’s idea of ‘the masses’ has shaped the political imaginary of liberal democracy. At the end of the 19th century, […]
Join us for an ITS virtual talk titled “The politics of memory: Language technologies and decolonization in South Africa” with Dr. Yousif Hassan (University of Michigan) on Feb. 26 from noon to 1:30 p.m. Yousif Hassan is an assistant professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and School of Information. His research […]
One of the worse impacts of climate change is forced displacement. Climate change is fueling internal and international migration and refugee trends through the extreme weather events (e.g. abnormally heavy rainfall, prolonged droughts, heatwaves, and cyclones), sea level rise, water and food insecurity and associated conflicts. The United Nations General Assembly’s New York Declaration for […]
Dr. Kai Bosworth will present a talk on: Pipeline Populism and the Climate Cycle of Struggles: 2010-2020 How has the character and politics of the climate justice movement changed in the last decade, in the context of the growth of Indigenous-led struggles against oil pipelines? How have non-Indigenous settlers variously understood (or not) themselves in […]