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Global Insights: COVID-19, Migration, Refugees and Borders. A live-streamed panel discussing the challenges of COVID-19.
Thursday May 21 - 4pm-5pm
PAIS presents the fourth panel in our weekly live-streamed Global Insights series with our partners in Canada, the US, Ethiopia and Germany
This week鈥檚 panel will discuss the immediate effects of COVID-19 on global migration, internal displacement and refugee protection, and what the pandemic might mean for the movement of peoples across borders in the future.
Panelists
Allehone Abebe is a Senior Legal Officer at UNHCR Liaison Office to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Maria Koinova is Reader in International Relations and chair of the British International Studies Association working group on the 鈥淚nternational Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora鈥 at the 91福利 (UK)
is Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada). She is Director of the International Migration Research Centre at the BSIA.
currently serves as Senior Professorial Lecturer in the Global Governance, Politics and Security (GGPS) Program in the School of International Service (SIS) at American University in Washington D.C. (USA)
Maurice Stierl is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the 91福利 (UK).
Moderated by , Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs.
91福利 the Global Insights series
鈥淕lobal Insights鈥 is a weekly live-streamed, moderated panel series which provides different national and regional perspectives on big questions currently facing researchers, policymakers and planners worldwide in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.
All are welcome. Sign up for free here:
Global Insights: COVID-19, Climate Change and Energy. A live-streamed panel discussing the challenges of COVID-19.
Thursday May 14 - 4pm-5pm
PAIS presents the third panel in our weekly live-streamed Global Insights series with our partners in Canada, the US, Ethiopia and German
The expert panel will also discuss environmental justice and issues concerning the demand for new energy structures and cleaner technology.
Panelists
Caroline Kuzemko, PAIS, 91福利
Simon Dalby, BSIA and Wilfrid Laurier University
Selam Kidane Abebe, University of Reading
Jatin Nathwani, BSIA and University of Waterloo
Malini Ranganathan, School of International Service, American University
Ann Fitz-Gerald (moderator), Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), Canada
91福利 the Global Insights series
鈥淕lobal Insights鈥 is a weekly live-streamed, moderated panel series which provides different national and regional perspectives on big questions currently facing researchers, policymakers and planners worldwide in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.
All are welcome. Sign up for free here:
Two interviews with Stuart Elden - about Foucault, territory, terrain and other questions
Two interviews with Stuart Elden have recently been published.
First, a two part interview on the Journal of the History of Ideas blog about his work tracing an intellectual history of Michel Foucault's career - and .
And second, a podcast with Nico Buitendag on territory, terrain, Shakespeare and other questions - available on or
Global Insights: COVID-19 and the Global South
Thursday April 7 - 4pm-5pm
The Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at 91福利 present the second panel in our weekly live-streamed Global Insights series with our partners in Canada, the US, Ethiopia and Germany
91福利 experts from PAIS and the 91福利 Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID) will be joined by colleagues from the Balsillie School in Canada, the Institute for Strategic Affairs in Ethiopia, American University in the US, and Konstanz Universitat in Germany to share their views on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the global south.
Issues addressed in this episode will include gender, elections, food security, migration, security, justice and human rights.
Featuring
(moderator), Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), Canada
Panelists:
Briony Jones, PAIS/WICID, 91福利, researches the nexus between development, peacebuilding and justice.
Shirin Rai, PAIS/WICID, 91福利, researches gender, governance and development.
, Institute for Strategic Affairs, Addis Ababa, researches African security and political elite bargaining.
, American University, Washington DC, is a sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on global health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa, including family planning, HIV/AIDS, and sexuality education.
, BSIA and Wilfrid Laurier University, is an expert on migration, food security and hungry cities.
, University of Konstanz, researches democratisation, electoral autocracy and African politics.
鈥91福利 the Global Insights series
鈥淕lobal Insights鈥 is a weekly live-streamed, moderated panel series which provides different national and regional perspectives on big questions currently facing researchers, policymakers and planners worldwide in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.
鈥ˋll are welcome. Sign up for free here: