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Week of March 19, 2023

February 2023 Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: Lessons to be Learned

Join Dr. Evren Altinkas as we discuss how a lack of infrastructure and state capacity hampered the official response to the earthquake, and how a civilian network helped fill in the gaps. Dr Altinkas will also share insights from the 1999 Golcuk earthquake, which he experienced personally, and draw comparisons with more recent events. Register for the virtual event

Making Space for Progress: Internationalizing the University as Social Justice

The University of Guelph's Strategic Refresh highlights the commitment of the university to “further international relationships” as a part of its overall pillar of community connection.  The University has also taken measures to advance and entrench equity, diversity and inclusion into its core values and deliverables.  We welcome a guest speaker to aide us to contemplate the implications and possibilities of those intersections and offers an innovation of academic internationalization praxis undergirded by social justice
Roe v. Wade Overturned: The Politics of Abortion in the Post-Roe Era

Roe v. Wade Overturned: The Politics of Abortion in the Post-Roe Era

With the strokes of five pens, in 2022 the US Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion, a right that had been expanded almost half a century earlier. What are the implications of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision for politics? Join Professor Jordi Díez as he moderates a panel of experts to discuss the consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade.