World Issues Forum

World Issues Forum Spring 2022 – Fairhaven Auditorium, Wednesdays 12:00-1:20 

Fairhaven College launched the World Issues Forum, Western Washington University’s global justice speaker series in September 2001. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of World Issues since it was begun and nurtured by Shirley Osterhaus with support from Fairhaven College and then dean Ron Riggins. 

The WIF challenges students, faculty, staff, and community members to be active and engaged global citizens. Distinguished guest speakers address urgent global justice topics including planetary survival; decolonization and anti-racism; human rights; migrations; and the world economy.  

For Spring 2022 we have a fantastic line up of speakers appropriate to the twentieth anniversary of World Issues, and al-Qaeda’s attacks on the United States, and the failures of the global war on terror. We have a panel of outstanding Western faculty on Russia’s war on Ukraine. We celebrate our colleague Babafemi Akinrinade’s new book with a Forum on “Transnational Accountability. The Law, Diversity, and Justice and American Cultural Studies Programs bring us three legal speakers on immigration, political membership, and civil rights. We hear from the 18th cohort of Adventure Learning Grant recipients and learn about an Artists Residence in Bethlehem, Palestine.  

We gratefully thank our colleagues Larry Estrada, Regina Jefferies, Ceci Lopez, for speaker nominations. Thanks also to our cohosts: American Cultural Studies; The Center for Law, Diversity, and Justice; Department of History; Department of Political Science; and the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. 

Community and campus members are very welcome via Zoom.

Zoom Link

You can access older World Issues Forums 2009-2020 on WWU Cedar 

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Fairhaven College launched the World Issues Forum, Western Washington University’s global justice speaker series in September 2001. Fall 2021 marks the twentieth anniversary of World Issues since it was begun and nurtured by Shirley Osterhaus with support from Fairhaven College and dean Ron Riggins.

The WIF challenges students, faculty, staff, and community members to be active and engaged global citizens. Distinguished guest speakers address urgent global justice topics including planetary survival; decolonization and anti-racism; human rights; migrations; and the world economy.

For Fall 2021 we have a fantastic line up of speakers appropriate to the twentieth anniversary of World Issues, and al-Qaeda’s attacks on the United States, and the failures of the global war on terror. We have two speakers on Indigenous Nations and settler colonialism, one on art and Islamophobia, a speaker on Afghanistan’s transitions, and an ACLU lawyer on racism in our immigration policies. Fairhaven professor, Yanara Friedland, will read from her new book Groundswell on border landscapes, and two historians will compare accountability for human rights violations in Latin America.

We gratefully thank our colleagues Pedro Cameselle, Ceci Lopez, and Robert Snyderman for speaker nominations. Thanks also to our cohosts: Canadian American Studies; Education and Social Justice; the Western Gallery and Art 109; Department of History; Latin American Studies; Salish Sea Studies; WWU Tribal Relations Executive; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

World Issues Forums 2009-2020