Decolonizing International Affairs | Spring 2021 Lecture Series
For the Spring 2021 semester, the GPIA hosted three events about decolonizing International Affairs. You can now watch the recordings below!
Drug Politics: From AIDS to COVID-19
As some rich countries grapple with a shortage of coronavirus vaccines, and many poor countries worry about getting any at all, the role of pharmaceutical corporations – and specifically their monopolies on drugs and vaccines – has come under scrutiny. Again. The problem with access to coronavirus vaccines today traces its roots to the AIDS crisis that engulfed South Africa twenty years ago. We’ve designed a system that saves only the richest of us; the rest consigned to suffering and worse. If a global pandemic won’t change it, what will?
Join a public lecture with Achal Prabhala – based in Bangalore, India – who is the coordinator of the #AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil, and South Africa. Sean Jacobs, Associate Professor of International Affairs, will introduce him.
The Problem with Economics
Join a public roundtable with Sean Jacobs on inequities and distortions in the study of global economics with three young economists who study global economics and political economy.
Panelists:
- Grieve Chelwa is an economist from Zambia. He is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town.
- Francisco Pérez is Executive Director of the Center for Popular Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
- Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Development at the University of York’s Department of Politics.
The Global Movement for Black Lives
Join Sean Jacobs in a discussion on the politics and recent history of the global movement for Black lives with voices from the US, Brazil, the UK and South Africa.
Panelists:
- Olufemi Taiwo is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
- Marilene Felinto is a Brazilian writer and newspaper columnist.
- Adam Elliot Cooper is a Research Associate of the Applied Sociology Research Group at the University of Greenwich in the UK. He sits on the board of The Monitoring Group, an anti-racist organization challenging state racisms and racial violence.
- Will Shoki is a graduate student in philosophy at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa and Staff Writer of Africa Is a Country.