Global Fridays started in the Fall semester 2006. It serves as a forum for faculty and students interested in all things global. It brings internationally renowned speakers to 蹤獲扞⑹ to talk on their research and provides an opportunity for 蹤獲扞⑹ faculty to share their research findings.
Meeting six to eight times a semester, it is open to all and covers a wide range of topics and disciplines.
Global Fridays meets from noon 1:30 p.m. Join us for some new perspectives on global processes. From September 2024, Global Fridays will be run by a team consisting of:
- Co-Chair, Dr. Gabrielle Daoust (Global and International Studies)
- Co-Chair, Dr. Gary Wilson (Political Science)
- Dr. Max Hamon (History)
- Dr. Luna KC (Global and International Studies)
- Dr. Heather Smith (Global and International Studies)
If you have suggestions for speakers, please let any one of them know or email globalfriday@unbc.ca
Winter 2025 Global Friday Speaker Series presents:
January 24 - Dr. Gail Fondahl, PhD, (Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia)- A Fractured North: Musings on Coping with the Closure of the Russian North to Scholars
January 31- Rheanna Robinson, (Associate Professor, First Nations Studies, University of Northern British Columbia) An affront to reconciliation: Indigenous Peoples and Canadas Track 2 MAiD
February 7-Edward Akuffo, (Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Political Science, University of the Fraser Valley)-Africa's Geopolitical Space and Canada-Africa Relations in a Shifting Global Order
February 28 - Vanda Felbab-Brown, (Senior Fellow, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings)-Drugs, Security, and Tariffs in Mexico
March 14 - Dr. Erin Baines, (Associate Professor, Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia) -Inter generational Witnessing and Children Born of War
March 21 -Dr. Dawit Guta, (Professor, School of Economics, University of British Columbia) - Adoption and Transition to Clean Cooking Fuels in the Low and Middle-Income Countries: The case of Liquified Petroleum Gas in rural India
March 28 -Robert Baines (President and CEO, NATO Association of Canada) Canada and NATO in a Uncertain World
April 4 - Allan Downey (Associate Professor in the Department of History and Indigenous Studies Department at McMaster University) Resurgent Histories: Indigenous Storytelling in a Digital Age
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