Politics
Glen Coulthard (2020)
Mar 05, 2020
Glen Coulthard is a member of Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He co-founded the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a [...]
Joy James (2019)
Mar 19, 2019
Joy James is a professor at Williams College. Her research considers the role of mass incarceration in the class and race struggles of the 1970s, and considers incarceration as a form of state violence while also exploring how people of colour resist it through organizing [...]
Bill Nichols (2019)
Jan 20, 2019
“In the Beginning” Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University, a position he has held in 1987. Prior to that, he was a member of the Queen’s University Film Studies Department, where he was Acting Chair from 1976-8 and Chair from 1978-1985. He is [...]
Christopher Lebron (2018)
Oct 11, 2018
“Problems of African Universities South of the Sahara” Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]
Susan Stryker (2015)
Feb 25, 2015
“Transgender Histories and Futurities” Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a historian, writer, educator, artist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Her work lies at the intersection of Queer [...]
Ralph Nader (2011-2012)
Mar 21, 2012
“Going Green in a Corporate Climate” Ralph Nader is a former American presidential nominee, who some claimed was a deciding factor in the 2000 election, and was named by Time magazine as one of the top one-hundred most influential people. Throughout his career, he has been [...]
Ariella Azoulay (2011-2012)
Jan 20, 2012
“Toward a Visual Declaration of Human Rights: Revisiting The Family of Man” Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at [...]
David Wilson (2010-2011)
Feb 15, 2011
“Inventing Black-on-Black Violence: American Style” David Wilson is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography and a member of the unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally recognized, [...]
Bill Blaikie (2009-2010)
Jan 20, 2010
“The God Squad in Politics: From Affection to Derision to New Possibilities” Bill Blaikie was one of Canada’s longest serving members of parliament, representing a variety of Manitoba ridings from 1979-2008. Blaikie served as Deputy Leader and House Leader of the New [...]
David Goldberg (2009-2010)
Oct 30, 2009
“Enduring Occupations on Racial Neoliberalism” David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. As a [...]
Sherene Razack (2006-2007)
Jan 30, 2007
“Dangerous Muslim Men, Imperiled Muslim Women, and Civilized Europeans: Law and the War on Terror” Sherene Razack is Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at UCLA. She was previously Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social [...]
Eric L. Jones (2005-2006)
Jan 20, 2006
“Asian Values and the Self-Transformation of East Asia” Eric L. Jones is Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, and Visiting Professor at Exeter University. He received his doctorate in economic [...]