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All Topics (April 4 through May 1)

Friday, April 4

• All Day From Foundation to Future: Pardee's Decennial Celebration
• 2:30 PM The Eternal Promise of Missile Defense (Workshop in International Theory and History)

Monday, April 7

• 12:00 PM Refugee Politics and Conflict Management: Two Processes Out of Sync?

Tuesday, April 8

• 5:00 PM Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce

Wednesday, April 9

• 8:30 AM A 120-Year Retrospective: The Russo-Japanese War and Treaty of Portsmouth with Implications for Today
• 5:00 PM Institutionalizing Black Europe: The Center for Black European Studies at Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday, April 10

• 4:00 PM Antiblackness and Global Health: A Response to Ebola in the Colonial Wake

Friday, April 11

• 12:00 PM Sacred Cities, Civic Futures: The Role of Pilgrimages in Shaping Civil Society in Iraq and India

Monday, April 14

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Gloria Emeagwali

Tuesday, April 15

• 1:30 PM Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization: Reconstructing Fiscal Institutions Beyond Colonial Legacies

Friday, April 18

• 1:00 PM Global Governance Reform from the Global South

Monday, April 21

• 3:00 PM Debt Paper Series Launch with the Institute for Economic Justice

Tuesday, April 22

• 12:30 PM Colonialism and EU Law: The Case of Algerian Wine

Wednesday, April 23

• 6:30 AM Film Screening: "Harmonium" by Tadanobu Asano

Thursday, April 24

• 12:30 PM Latin America and the Origins and Development of the Nuclear Order
• The Political Economy of the Eurozone’s Rollercoaster

Friday, April 25

• 12:00 PM Forging Elite Fitness, Forging the Nation: CrossFit and Christian Nationalism
• Leveraging Country Platforms for Climate Prosperity
• 12:30 PM Chasing After Strange Gods: Anna Louise Strong in Stalin's USSR (Workshop in International Theory and History)

Monday, April 28

• 12:00 PM United by Music: When Cultures Sing Together
• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Solomon Owusu

Tuesday, April 29

• 12:30 PM Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Cabo Verdean Care Workers in Portugal
• 2:00 PM What Futures Can Global Studies Imagine?

Wednesday, April 30

• 4:00 PM African Literature Book Group Discussion: The Death of Vivek Oji

Thursday, May 1

• 4:00 PM Is it Possible to Shift Power in Global Health?