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 UNBC to talk on their research and provides an opportunity for UNBC faculty to share their research findings. International speakers have included: Walden Bello (University of the Philippines), Boris Kagarlitsky (Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow), Pun Ngai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Jose Pablo Baraybar (President, Latin American Association of Forensic Anthropologists).

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.

Fall 2024 Global Friday Speaker Series presents:

September 20 - Dr. Christine Campana (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Northern British Columbia) - “we know how to travel”: Indigenous Perspectives on More-Than-Human Movement in the Poetry of Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 

October 4 - Brandi Morin (Award-winning Cree, Iroquois, French journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta, Canada) - Lessons in Resilience

October 18 - Dr. Miriam Anderson (Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Toronto Metropolitan University) - Title to be confirmed

October 25 - Dr. David J. Hornsby (Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs; Vice Provost & Associate Vice-President (Academic), Carleton University) - The Future of Universities: towards the Citizen Scholar 

November 1 - Dr. Andy Hira (Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University) - The 2024 US Presidential Election as an Historical Conjuncture 

November 15 - Dr. Nathan Andrews (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University) - Title to be confirmed

November 22 - Dr. Jay Dolmage (Professor & Chair of English, University of Waterloo) - Academic Ableism and its Alternatives

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