Past World Issues Forums
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 • Policing Surplus Population: Thoughts on the Limits of Black Lives Matter. 12:00 in Fairhaven Auditorium
- Wed Nov 8, 2023 • The Finnish Health Care System.
- Wed Nov 1, 2023 • People in Motion
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 • The African Union and the Crisis of Unconstitutional Changes of Government.
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 • Crafting Local Solutions to Address Grassroot Challenges.
- Wed Oct 4, 2023 • Jesintel: Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders – WWU Book Launch. 12:00 in Fairhaven Auditorium
- Thu May 18, 2023 • Adventures in Portugal and the Balkans
- Wed May 10, 2023 • 225 Years in the Making: How Canadian Universities Honor the Jay Treaty Through Cross-Border Tuition Policies
- Wed May 3, 2023 • Responding to Climate Mobility through International Law – Prospects and Pitfalls Fairhaven Auditorium Wednesday 11:30-12:50
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 • Imaginary Lines--Indigenous Geographies across the boundaries of settler states Fairhaven Auditorium Wednesday 11:30-12:50
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 • Social Work across the 49th Parallel: Big Salmon River and Columbia River Treaty modernization Fairhaven Auditorium Wednesday 11:30-12:50
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 • The Power of Water: Critical Reflections on the Columbia River Treaty Fairhaven Auditorium Wednesday 11:30-12:50
- Wed Apr 5, 2023 • Salish Sea Seaweeds: Cross-cultural uses, benefits, risks, and stories from two “Seaweed Sisters” Fairhaven Auditorium Wednesday 11:30-12:50
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 • “Why I am Not a Vegetarian!” Food Fascism in India
- Wed Nov 9, 2022 • The Eurocentricity of the Global Refugee Law Regime
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 • Completing the Global Financial Architecture to Assist Vulnerable Countries
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 • Connecting Race and Empire: Structures of Subordination in International Migration
- Wed Oct 12, 2022 • Fostering Reconciliation
- Wed Oct 5, 2022 • Food Freedom through Climate Change Activism
- Wed Sep 28, 2022 • The Polish-Ukrainian borderland in the face of war: geopolitical significance, societal relations and economic linkages
- Wed May 25, 2022 • The Adventure Learning Grant in the Time of Corona Virus
- Wed May 18, 2022 • Facing the Truth and Connecting the Dots: when freedoms are limited for one, freedom is harmed for all.
- Wed May 18, 2022 • Facing the Truth and Connecting the Dots: when freedoms are limited for one, freedom is harmed for all
- Wed May 11, 2022 • Immigrant Justice and Racial Justice: What's the Connection?
- Wed May 4, 2022 • Settlers and Immigrants in the American Experience
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 • April 27th- Dar Jacir: Care, Hospitality, and Criticality
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 • Transnational Accountability for Atrocity Crimes in Africa.
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 • Transnational Accountability for Atrocity Crimes in Africa.
- Wed Apr 6, 2022 • April 6th- Understanding Russia’s War on Ukraine
- Fri Dec 31, 2021 • The World Issues Forum will return in April 2022
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 • Confronting Immigration Law: From Racist History to Current Activism
- Wed Nov 10, 2021 • Writing at the Border: Reflections on Groundswell
- Wed Nov 3, 2021 • Unchartered Distance: Performing In-Between Here and There
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 • Human Rights in Latin America: Accountability and History in Mexico and Uruguay
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 • Why They Didn’t Want You to Know about Residential and Boarding Schools
- Wed Oct 6, 2021 • "The Taliban’s Return and Afghanistan’s Cycles of Exclusion"
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 • The Salmon People Project
- Wed May 19, 2021 • Adventure Learning Grant 2019-2020
- Wed May 12, 2021 • From the Challenges of the Adventure Learning Grant to Enduring Global Engagement
- Wed May 5, 2021 • Putting Local History to Work for Social Justice
- Wed Apr 28, 2021 • Urban Land Knowledge: Reflecting on Stories of Place
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 • The White Savior Industrial Complex
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 • From Global Learning to Global Health
- Wed Apr 7, 2021 • Tourism Economies & Indigenous Struggles
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 • Genocide Today – The Uyghurs in China
- Wed Nov 4, 2020 • Drawing the REDLine
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 • Finding a Place for Rights at the Canada-US Border
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 • Criminal Governance in Latin America
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 • Ethnic Violence and Refugee Crisis: The Case of the Rohingyas in South Asia
- Wed May 20, 2020 • Adventure Learning Grant
- Wed May 13, 2020 • Guest Presentation: Community-Based Education Approaches for Sustainable Development
- Wed May 6, 2020 • The Nature and Necessity of Bees
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 • The Farm Workforce Modernization Act and the Dangerous Expansion of H2A
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 • Addressing Inequities Through Health Promotion Policy in Australia: Trawling the Tides of Turbulence
- Wed Apr 15, 2020 • Food, Energy, Climate Nexus
- Wed Apr 8, 2020 • COVID-19 Panel Talk
- Tue Jan 7, 2020 • World Issues will return Spring 2020
- Mon Dec 2, 2019 • Understanding the Protests in Bolivia and Chile
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 • The Alt-Right in US History
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 • Empowering Underrepresented Populations in Global Health and Development
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 • Advancing Adolescent Health and Development: The Role of Social and Behavior Change Communication
- Wed Nov 6, 2019 • Transforming Masculinities in South Asia: Exploring Gender Justice with Men
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 • (Re)Thinking Complex Health Problems from a Multidimensional Approach: Chagas Disease in Argentina and Beyond
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 • Enhancing the Role of Critical Theory and Indigenous Knowledge in Health Promotion Theory and Practice
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 • Malaria Control in Africa: The Story So Far
- Wed Oct 9, 2019 • Health and Wellbeing of Young Refugees in Norway: Implications of the Lack of Congruence Between Policy and Practice
- Wed Oct 2, 2019 • Closing the Poor-Rich Gap in Contraceptive Use in Rwanda: Understanding the Underlying Mechanisms
- Wed May 29, 2019 • The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
- Wed May 22, 2019 • Mexican Asylum Cases in the United States: Corruption and Despotism
- Wed May 8, 2019 • Climate Change and the Politics of Freedom
- Wed May 1, 2019 • Indigenous Women's Legal Strategies & Salish Sea Crossings
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 • Finding the Good - Rwanda’s Pathways Back to Trust
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 • ALG Students – Street Art, Agroecology, and Womxn and Resistence in Central and South America: Adventure Learning Grant 2017 – 2018
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 • The Globalization of Irish Song
- Wed Mar 6, 2019 • Towards a Palestinian Third Cinema
- Wed Feb 27, 2019 • Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 • Bollywood Makes Men: Gender, Globalization, and Nation in India
- Wed Feb 6, 2019 • Human Mobility / Human Dignity: Ethics in the act of representing migration and detention
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 • Antígona González: Thinking Through Language, the Body, Writing, and Translation in the Present
- Wed Jan 16, 2019 • Changing Contours of Treachery: Pro-Japanese Collaboration in Recent South Korean Film
- Wed Nov 28, 2018 • Civil Society Development in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries
- Wed Nov 14, 2018 • Enforced Disappearances: Human Rights Norms, Institutions, and Enforcement in Reality
- Wed Nov 7, 2018 • How to Stop a Dam with Indigenous Resistance
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 • Canadian Documentary in the Global Context
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 • The Silencing of Dissent: How Freedom of the Press is Threatened in Honduras
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 • Embodied Heritage: Enactments of Indigenous Sovereignty
- Wed Oct 3, 2018 • Immigrant Incarceration and the Neoliberal State in the Trump Era
- Wed May 30, 2018 • A journey through slavery at the Whitney Plantation
- Wed May 23, 2018 • Engaging Africa in the Era of America First
- Wed May 16, 2018 • Ecovillages Around the World: Integrating Ecology, Economics, Community and Consciousness
- Wed May 9, 2018 • Donald Trump's First Year: A Report Card
- Wed May 2, 2018 • Racism, Austerity and Precarity: Canada's Role in Shaping Anti-Migrant Policies
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 • Why Does China Hesitate to Impose Economic Sanctions against North Korea Seriously?
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 • Indigenous People in the Global Context
- Wed Apr 11, 2018 • Refugees in Greece; Farming in Ecuador; and Global Skateboarding: Adventure Learning Grant 2016-17
- Wed Mar 7, 2018 • The (Ongoing) Ruins of Japanese American Incarceration: Thirty Years After the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 • The Role of the States in the Civil Rights Dialogue
- Wed Feb 21, 2018 • Gender Violence, Specialized Courts and Guatemalan Asylum Cases in the United States
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 • Immigrants in the U.S. Military
- Wed Feb 7, 2018 • The Ethical Challenge of Climate Change: Paris in a Perfect Moral Storm
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 • ‘Unspeakable Suffering’: Sexualized Violence, Survivor Testimony, and International Justice
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 • Empire All the Way Down: Thinking America Through Edward Said
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 • Undocumented Students and the Right to Education
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 • Rethinking the Heart of Empire: Indigenous Travellers in London, 1502-2015
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 • Korematsu Then and Now
- Wed Nov 8, 2017 • The First Half-Century of Israel’s Permanently Temporary Occupation
- Wed Nov 1, 2017 • Innocent Victims and Schoolgirl Warriors: A Child Witness's Account of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 • To Peace Corps or not to Peace Corps?
- Wed Oct 18, 2017 • America and Germany – Old Friends or New Rivals?
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 • Human Rights in Mexico: How US Policies Affect State Violence, Militarization, and Displacement
- Wed Oct 4, 2017 • Tulalip From My Heart: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Harriette Shelton Dover Darleen Fitzpatrick, Raymond Fryberg, Glen Gobin, and Patti Gobin
- Wed May 24, 2017 • Media in Armed Conflicts
- Wed May 17, 2017 • Bridging Worlds: The Dreams of the Adara Story
- Wed May 10, 2017 • Rastafarianism
- Wed May 3, 2017 • Migrants, Refugees, and Citizens: Some Hard Questions for Immigration Policy
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 • Stoning, Women's Rights, and Western Attitudes in Northern Nigeria: The Infamous Case of Amina Lawal
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 • Why History Matters: Race and National Identity
- Wed Apr 12, 2017 • Adventure Learning Grant
- Wed Apr 5, 2017 • Theravada Buddhist Nationalism: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand
- Fri Mar 10, 2017 • Referendums: Should they be Banned?
- Wed Mar 1, 2017 • Development Through Design
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 • Standing Rock and the Media
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 • Transforming Outlooks and Forms of Resistance: Palestinian Public Opinion Two Decades After the Oslo Accords
- Wed Feb 8, 2017 • Who Doesn’t Want Peace? Peace-making in Colombia and Specters of Cuba, 1958-2016
- Wed Feb 1, 2017 • Revolutionary Songs: A Centennial Celebration of the Irish Revolution of 1916
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 • Masculinity, Nationalism, and Bollywood in a Globalizing India
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 • Regionalism in Contemporary Cuban Society and Music
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 • Making Schools Safe: Protecting Children from Hazards in Asia and the Pacific
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 • Turning Up the Pressure on Corporate Accountability
- Wed Nov 9, 2016 • Indian Immigrant Women and Work: The American Experience
- Wed Nov 2, 2016 • Unleashing the Power of Prevention: Creating Video to Re-Imagine Our Approach to Disease
- Wed Oct 26, 2016 • Access to Information as a Human Right
- Wed Oct 19, 2016 • Guatemalan Women Healing Toward Justice: The Case of Sepur Zarco
- Wed Oct 12, 2016 • Towards La Familia Diversa: Resignifying the Family in Ecuador
- Wed Oct 5, 2016 • Global LGBTQI Movements, Human Rights, and Health: Notes from the Frontlines
- Wed Sep 28, 2016 • Climate and Cultural Memory: The Selknam of Tierra del Fuego
- Wed Jun 1, 2016 • Beyond Borders, Walls and Marginalities: Solidarity Forever
- Wed May 25, 2016 • Lobbying for Peace: People Power to Help Extinguish the Middle East Fire
- Wed May 18, 2016 • Human Rights in Mexico—US Border: A Personal Experience
- Wed May 11, 2016 • Idle No More: Freedom in an era of Climate Change
- Wed May 4, 2016 • Unaccompanied Children in the United States: Refugees in Need of Protection
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 • American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 • Cultural Conflicts: Shifting Paradigms
- Wed Apr 13, 2016 • What's Lost in Campaigns Against Sex Trafficking?
- Wed Apr 6, 2016 • Between June ’67 and Global ’68: A Shadow History of Civil Rights and Decolonization
- Wed Mar 2, 2016 • Ten Months, Seven Countries, Two Students, One Grant: Adventure Learning Grant
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 • In Search of Monsters to Destroy: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and US Imperialism
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 • Carceral Interstice: Between Prison and Home
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 • Sonic Jihad: Muslim Hip Hop in the Age of Mass Incarceration
- Wed Feb 10, 2016 • Like American racism, Israeli Zionism has become a source of injustice in the Arab world and beyond.
- Wed Feb 3, 2016 • Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror
- Wed Jan 27, 2016 • The Changing Climate, Stories from Paris and What Now?
- Wed Jan 20, 2016 • Womanhood in the Making in Nepal: An Intergenerational Perspective Mira Mishra
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 • Upstream Development versus Downstream Risk on Transboundary Watersheds - The Taku, Stikine and Unuk rivers of north-west BC and south-east Alaska
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 • Upstream Development versus Downstream Risk on Transboundary Watersheds - The Taku, Stikine and Unuk rivers of north-west BC and south-east Alaska
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 • Upstream Development versus Downstream Risk on Transboundary Watersheds - The Taku, Stikine and Unuk rivers of north-west BC and south-east Alaska
- Wed Nov 18, 2015 • Cotton from India, Coffee from Colombia, Soy from Brazil: Understanding the Globalization of Water
- Mon Nov 9, 2015 • Stories from Downwind: The Power of People’s History
- Wed Nov 4, 2015 • Maíz y el país: Political Violence in Mexico and Corn's Lessons for Justice
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 • Economy in Crisis: Fantasies, Realities, Possibilities
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 • An Altar Boy with a Gun.
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 • Intergenerational Experiences in Aboriginal Education: My Family
- Wed Oct 7, 2015 • The State of Hate: The Threat of White Nationalism in a ‘Post-Racial’ America
- Wed Sep 30, 2015 • Seeds of Life, Seeds of Change: Visionary Practices of Maya Women