Decolonizing International Affairs | Fall 2021 Lecture Series
This semester, the GPIA hosted three events about decolonizing international affairs. In case you missed them, you can now watch the recordings below:
Decolonizing Global Health
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs at The New School, Seye Abimbola, Manjari Mahajan and Eugene Richardson discuss how race, power structures, finance capitalism, and colonialism explain why global health ideas, practices and structures perpetuate health inequalities.
- Seye Abimbola is Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney, Prins Claus Chair of Global Health at Utrecht University, and Editor of BMJ Global Health. @seyeabimbola
- Manjari Mahajan is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Co-Director of India-China Institute at The New School
- Eugene Richardson is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, and author of Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. @unsymbolize
Decolonizing Economics
Join Fukuda-Parr in conversation with Grieve Chelwa, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven and Kyle Moore about how race, inequality, and colonial history need to reshape the field of economics.
- Grieve Chelwa is an economist from Zambia. He is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, and recently joined The New School as fellow at the Institute of Race, Stratification and Political Economy. @gchelwa
- Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is Lecturer in Economics at Kings College, London and is the founder of Decolonizing Economics initiative. @ingridharvold
- Kyle Moore is an economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy. He is also a working on a doctorate in the Department of Economics of The New School.
Decolonizing Human Rights
In a world of extreme inequality, is international human rights advocacy also an instrument that perpetuates the very hierarchies of knowledge, race, political power and resources rooted in colonialism: Irene Khan, Kayum Ahmed and Gulika Reddy join Fukuda-Parr in a panel that explores how to tackle these and other issues in the field of human rights practice.
- Irene Khan is UN Special Rapporteur on Promotion and Protection of Freedom of Expression, and was Secretary General of Amnesty International from 2012 to 2019. She is co-author of The Untold Truths: Poverty and Human Rights. @Irenekhan
- Kayum Ahmed is Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of Public Health. @AkayumAhmed1
- Gulika Reddy is a human rights advocate, working on discrimination, inequality, armed conflict and peacebuilding in India, Kashmir, Yemen, Papua New Guinea and elsewhere. She directs the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. @GulikaReddy