Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 1 PM Vienna

With this Faculty Support Session, OSUN faculty are invited to meet with team leads from other Network Collaborative Courses (NCCs) to share their experiences of leading courses.
  
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Online Event  11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
11 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna

The 4th webinar of the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative's #DemocratizingWork Global Workshop Series will focus on "Progress on Democratizing the Corporate Firm in Spain."

EDI and fellow organizers Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and European Trade Union Institute welcome OSUN community members to join online and hear from the following:

Speaker: Emma Rodríguez Rodríguez (Advisor to the State Secretary of Employment and Social Economy of the Spanish Labour Ministry and Professor of Labour and Social Security Law at Universidad de Vigo)

Discussants: Holm-Detlev Köhler (Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo), Mª Cruz Vicente (Confederal Secretary of Trade Union Action of Comisiones Obreras) and Bruno Estrada (President of Plataforma por la Democracia Económica).

Interpretation in Spanish / English will be provided, thanks to Université Catholique de Louvain.

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

 

The OSUN Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative second gathering will be a talk by Samuel Abraham, Executive Director of the European Consortium of Liberal Arts and Sciences (ECOLAS). He will draw upon experiences as a co-founder of ECOLAS to discuss contemporary challenges facing LAS education: the de-emphasis of the bachelor’s degree and the preoccupation with international rankings. This 90-minute event will be conducted as an interactive talk, welcoming frequent audience participation.

Abraham is the rector of the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA), a small liberal arts college in Bratislava, Slovakia. Alongside Hans Adriaansens and Laurent Boetsch, Samuel helped found the ECOLAS in 2007 with the stated mission to “foster and disseminate the good practices necessary to sustain the teaching of the ideals and skills necessary for life-long learning and good citizenship inherent in the tradition of liberal arts and sciences education.”

To this end, ECOLAS has supported the establishment of liberal arts and sciences programs at European universities, by providing advice, service, and partnership opportunities across liberal arts and sciences programs. Abraham is also a founder and editor of the Slovak-English journal Kritika and Kontext, whose most recent issue published the ECOLAS’ 2021 manifesto entitled ‘The Crisis of the Bachelor’s Degree in Europe.’ 

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Online Event  8:30 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna

Volodymyr Demkine, an OSUN Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative Fellow, will discuss his research on the environmental effects of military actions in Ukraine.

Wide-scale military activities not only directly damage different components of the environment and result in a loss of ecosystem services but also entail long-term impacts on achieving environmental and development goals.

Demkine will provide a brief overview of the prewar goals of environmental policy in Ukraine, both nationally and internationally, as well as insights on how achievement of these goals has been challenged by war. He will also discuss data sources for analysis of the current situation and developing an outlook for the future, as well as estimates of environmental damages and losses incurred by the war. The presentation will conclude with ideas on likely actions in future and recommendations.  

Volodymyr Demkine is a retired UN program management officer with expertise in environmental policy development and implementation, as well as integrated environmental assessment. For 30 years he has worked in various aspects of climate change, including scientific assessment, mitigation and adaptation policies, as well as development of national and international policy instruments. His current research interest focuses on methodological aspects of upcoming post-war environmental assessment in Ukraine.

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 1 PM Vienna

OSUN Online Course (OOC) Program manager Timand Bates and colleagues will be available for informal check-ins with OOC faculty and course assistants.  Feel free to drop in to ask questions, share concerns, let the team know how your course is progressing.
  
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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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Questions? Email [email protected]

Online Event  8:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The inaugural event of the OSUN Developing Teaching Professionals project’s Inclusive Teaching Workshop Series will be held online and in-person at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG). Workshop topics include understanding principal approaches to disability and inclusion in higher education, teaching strategies in neurodiverse classrooms, and case studies and student perspectives on teaching and diverse abilities. The event is open to all members of the OSUN community.

Speakers include:
Felix Diaz
Verónica Moreno Campos
Natalia Nagyné Nyikes
Miklos Zala

View the full event program here.

The Inclusive Teaching Workshop Series is a combination of workshops, trainings, and keynote talks focused on engagement with inclusive classroom techniques, open and democratic classrooms, disability, and decolonizing and diversifying teaching practices. Events are hosted by rotating OSUN universities and are designed for online participation by all OSUN members.

Upcoming events in the series include:

Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education Around the World
April 14, 2023: 8-11 AM New York l 3-6 PM Vienna

First Annual Elkana Symposium on Reimagining Teaching and Learning
June 12-14, CEU, Vienna

Further events TBD

Register to attend the inaugural event

Deadline to register is Thursday, March 16

Online Event  4:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
4 AM New York l 9 AM Vienna

What does it mean for education to be open?  Within the current discourse on open education, "openness” has been largely associated with open access to educational resources and open publishing—drawing on the opportunities provided by the Internet and digital technologies.

This workshop sponsored by the Open Society Research Platform seeks to explore the multiple, connected dimensions of openness in the context of educational practices. In particular, the workshop will ask how the concept of “open society” can be useful for expanding dominant approaches to openness in higher education. The event will specifically focus on the ways this more multifaceted understanding of openness can be translated into educational practices and pedagogical techniques.
 
The workshop will inquire about:
-What are the consequences of the currently dominant technology-centered approaches to open education for the envisaged forms and objectives of higher education, including its societal role? What are the relations between its democratizing and exclusionary effects? 
-How can open education arrive at a more agency-centered approach instead of the current implicitly passive paradigm in which its participants emerge as “users” rather than co-creators? 
-What are the ways of rethinking openness in education in order to augment its emancipatory potential? How should open education address existing power relations and hierarchies in educational institutions and practices? 
-How is open education associated with de-colonization in the learning process and knowledge production? 
-How can the notion of open society be translated into the curriculum and what are the implications for pedagogical approaches?

Workshop speakers include Meggan Houlihan (OSUN/Bard College), Samia Huq (BRAC University), Tamara Kamatovic (Central European University), Kaitlin Lucas (CEU), Pusa Nastase (CEU), S. M .Mahfuzur Rahman (BRAC University), and Matyas Szabo (CEU).

The workshop will be composed of two panels and a moderated roundtable discussion, which will be open to the audience. 
Check the event webpage for further updates.

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Online Event  OSUN is collaborating with Kyiv Mohyla Academy (KMA) to support What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine, which aims to raise the funds required to establish a Centre for Civic Engagement at KMA in Ukraine.

The forthcoming Centre will provide support for academic and civic institutions in Ukraine to counteract the destabilizing impact that Russia’s invasion has had on Ukrainian higher education and civilian life. By assisting Ukrainian students and scholars today, this Centre will also help pave the way for a vibrant and engaged post-war Ukraine.

The conference is designed to provide individual academics, members of the public, colleges and universities, professional associations, charitable foundations, and private companies with a way to support students, scholars, and civic institutions in Ukraine. 

Keynotes for What Good is Philosophy? will be delivered by world-renowned author, Margaret Atwood, one of the most celebrated scholars of Ukrainian history, Timothy Snyder, and two of Ukraine’s preeminent public intellectuals, Mychailo Wynnyckyj and Volodymyr Yermolenko. 

Lectures will also be given by some of the most influential philosophers writing today, including Peter Adamson, Elizabeth Anderson, Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Agnes Callard, Quassim Cassam, Tim Crane, Simon Critchley, David Enoch, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sally Haslanger, Angie Hobbs, Barry Lam, Melissa Lane, Dominic Lopes, Kate Manne, Jeff McMahan, Jennifer Nagel, Philip Pettit, Kieran Setiya, Jason Stanley, Timothy Williamson, and Jonathan Wolff.

The conference is produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. See the full schedule here.

The conference will be broadcasted on the Munk School's YouTube channel on 17-19 March 2023, and also livestreamed here.
 
Donate to the KMA Centre for Civic Engagement

8:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 1 PM Vienna

OSUN's Global Engagement Fellows at American University of Central Asia, Al-Quds Bard, and BRAC University invite network community members to attend an online screening of two documentaries in honor of Gender Equity Month.

Student filmmakers will be in attendance to discuss "Surviving the Taliban" and "Gender Stereotypes about Women in STEM"

This event is part of an OSUN series dedicated to Gender Equity Month. See the full calendar of events here.

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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

Access a Global Time Converter here.

Questions? Email [email protected]

Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

The Bard Prison Initiative invites the OSUN community to the next session of its BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series, held in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network. Lucia Bracco Bruce will speak on “Co-governance, Feminism and Decoloniality: the Role of Delegate Women in Santa Mónica Prison.”

Lucía Bracco Bruce is a member of Grupo de Investigacion de Psicologia Forense y Penitenciaria (Forensic and Penitentiary Psychology Research Group) of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She holds a PhD in Women and Gender Studies (Warwick University - UK). Her research about governance in a women’s prison in Peru, Prison in Peru: Ethnographic, Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives, was published by Palgrave in 2022.

This session, like all in the BPI series, will include simultaneous translations in English and Spanish.
 
This event is also part of an OSUN series dedicated to Gender Equity Month. See the full calendar of events here.

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Online Event  9:00 am – 11:00 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The student-led Social Issues Club at Parami University in Myanmar invites OSUN community members to an online screening of a documentary about gender roles in Myanmar, titled "A Good Woman." Immediately after the screening, hosts will facilitate a discussion on the film and what it says about gender.

Organizers seek to identify gender stereotypes in day-to-day life and have a candid conversation about personal experiences.

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3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna via Livestream

The OSUN Liberal Arts Collaborative, Bard College, Central European University's Democracy Institute (CEU), and Defending Educational Freedom for Youth (DEFY) are sponsoring a livestreamed conversation between Michael Ignatieff, former Rector and President of CEU, and student leaders from New College of Florida representing the activist group DEFY.

The discussion is an important opportunity for Ignatieff to discuss with New College student leaders the lessons learned from Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban’s assault on academic freedom in Hungary, including the expulsion of CEU. New College of Florida, a public liberal arts college, has recently been targeted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: half of its Board of Trustees has been replaced, its president dismissed, and new board members are threatening major changes to teaching and curricula, especially on issues pertaining to race and gender. In this context, New College can be seen as a microcosm of wider challenges to academic freedom taking place in Florida and across the US.

The talk will be moderated by Kyaw Moe Tun, head of the Open Society University Network’s Liberal Arts Collaborative based at Bard College and President of Parami University in Myanmar (now in exile).

Participants:
Michael Ignatieff, former President and Rector of CEU, 2016-2021, current Rector Emeritus and University Professor of History, CEU 
Student leaders from DEFY

Join the livestream via OSUN's YouTube channel

Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
6 PM New York l 12 AM Vienna

The Bard Center for the Study of Hate invites members of the OSUN community to attend a discussion by Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University), author of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution. It’s a fascinating tour of how the Jewish philanthropic world developed, the relationship between communal goals and legal structures, and changes to philanthropy over the decades.
 
In this talk Berman will discuss how, in its ideal form, American philanthropy in general (not just Jewish philanthropy) serves the public good, but in practice it has often bred social, economic, and political divisions, even creating opportunities for hate. She will explore the historical development of this tension and asks what role philanthropy might play in reinvigorating a broad and capacious vision of the public.

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Online Event  8:30 am – 11:00 am EST/GMT-5
March 9th and 16th
8:30 - 11 AM New York l 2:30 - 5 PM Vienna

Registration is open for the online collaborative workshop "Holistic Care in Times of Uncertainty for Higher Education Professionals" designed for OSUN administrators and managers interested in reflecting on the pandemic's emotional and professional impacts. The workshop leaders will also offer suggestions for fostering nourishing places of care, balance, and respect for one's needs inside the academy.

Cammie Jones (Bard College) and Erzsébet Strausz (CEU) will lead this event spanning two sessions. 

This workshop is sponsored by OSUN and CEU's Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning and Higher Education Research.

Workshop details

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Deadline to register is Friday, March 3

Online Event  8:30 am – 10:00 am EST/GMT-5
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna

The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) presents a Data Analysis Skills for OSUN Students Module session led by EDI Research Associate Jordan Ayala. Participants will learn to use ESRI ArcGIS Online mapping software and receive a formal introduction to the fundamentals of geographic information systems (GIS) and conducting spatial analysis. Students will learn how GIS can be used as a tool for assessing social, economic, and environmental justice issues at the local, regional, and global scale.

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Online Event  5:00 am – 7:00 am EST/GMT-5
5 AM New York l 11 AM Vienna

Egor Isaev, Egor Isaev, documentary filmmaker and  Blinken Open Society Archives Doctoral Fellow, will present his research on the topic of "Militarization of the Past in Russian Popular Historical Cinema." 

The research project explores the representations of the past in contemporary Russian popular cinema and TV series. It is set within the fields of media studies and public history, and aims to analyze images and narratives through which the Soviet and imperial pasts have been (re)constructed in Russian media culture.  

Currently, Russia is torn by chauvinism, separatism, nostalgia for empire, and an unexamined historical trauma. The country produces a large number of popular war films intended to reconcile society with its history and set a militaristic vector for the future. After experiencing dislocation during the 1980s and 1990s, post-Soviet society has tried to find a new identity, one that considers history as its foundation. This research sheds light on how Russian society is represented in the cinema of the late Putin era and how these representations are often rooted in the past. 

The study focuses on historical films made in 2008–2014 and 2014–2020 (known as the second and third parts of Putin’s era). Several types of sources are analyzed: popular films that rewrite the histories of World War Two, the Brezhnev era, and Admiral Kolchak and the White Army. 

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

Joanna Zylinska, writer, artist and Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London, joins the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory's (University of Belgrade) lecture series on The Future of AI: Social and Cultural Aspects. The series is organized by the Digital Society Lab [DigLab] of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

Drawing on her philosophical work and her art practice, Joanna Zylinska will interrogate whether we can actively mobilise nonhuman creativity as a way of opening up our all too human ways of thinking and acting. She will also explore whether AI, rooted as it is in the extractivitst logic of the tech industry, can overcome its own material conditions of existence. Could AI play the role of a philosopher-visionary that will show us a way out of the current socio-political impasse? Could it get beyond the limitations of our human frames of mind to imagine a different set of propositions and arrangements for us? Could it help us envisage a better future?

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Online Event  7:30 am – 8:30 am EST/GMT-5
7:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna l 7 PM Yangon

On International Women's Day, a research team led by Myo Thida (Parami University / CMU, Thailand) and Amanda Landi (Bard College at Simon’s Rock) will share findings from an important new survey on the challenges Myanmar women face in the tech sector.  

93 women were surveyed on their reasons for taking a career break, their career challenges, and their job search-related issues. One key finding from the research and data analytic project was that 74% of respondents cited "lack of mentorship" as a major challenge.

Individuals in the OSUN community are encouraged to attend and hear more about the survey findings.

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:10 pm EST/GMT-5
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

The Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice lecture series continues with Sara Salem, who will focus a trip Angela Davis made to Egypt in the early 1980s to explore questions of transnational feminist solidarity and feminist difference. The emphasis on Marxism and feminism enabled Egyptian feminists to forge solidarity with women across the globe, including Angela Davis, who located gender oppression within the same structures—namely, capitalism and imperialism. Salem will demonstrate how the encounters Davis had with feminists during this trip reveal much about the workings of transnational feminism as praxis, as well as the possibilities of feminist solidarity that sees difference as productive rather than divisive.

Sara Salem is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, and global histories of anticolonialism. Her recently published book with Cambridge University Press is entitled Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (2020). 

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Online Event  8:30 am EST/GMT-5
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna

This Thursday, OSUN faculty who are interested in learning more about OSUN Academic Certificates are invited to an information session. 

Join Certificate program leaders and faculty to learn more about the OSUN Academic Certificates currently available in:
Civic Engagement
Food Studies
Global Educational Development
Human Rights
Public Policy and Economic Analysis
Social Enterprise & Leading Change

Find out how to get your courses included in Certificate curricula.  Ask questions about how to become involved with or start a Certificate program. Meet faculty from other institutions who share your academic interests. 

Faculty who are currently teaching OSUN Courses, or who propose to teach OSUN Online or Network Collaborative Courses in 2023-2024 are especially encouraged to attend.

Questions? Contact David Shein

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Online Event  The OSUN Gender Equity Working Group is hosting a series of online events during March, Women's History Month, that have been developed with the intent of raising the profile of gender-oriented issues and topics. All events seek to raise awareness and initiate conversations on a broad range of topics relating to gender equity. 

The purpose of the collective calendar is to raise awareness about gender equity-related happenings across OSUN and allow us all to engage with experts and practitioners on topics of shared concern throughout the month (and hopefully spark connections for sustained collaboration!).

All events on the shared calendar are open to all OSUN members. In addition to the calendar, there is a shared Padlet to capture events and happenings taking place on each campus to raise the visibility of how we're all recognizing International Women's Day (March 8) and the rest of Gender Equity month.

Access the calendar for full event details.
Access the Padlet for events on each campus.

Online Event  5:30 am – 7:00 am EST/GMT-5
5:30 AM New York l 11:30 AM Vienna l 4:30 PM Bishkek

OSUN's GeoHub project welcomes Lorant Czaran, Scientific Affairs Officer at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), who will lecture on the application of Earth observation data and geospatial technologies for monitoring Global Agendas. 
 
The talk will discuss UNOOSA in the context of the United Nations and relevant treaties related to space utilization. Czaran will address the current focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and assess how some of those goals and related indicators are monitored and supported by space technologies. 

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a talk by artist Baha Hilo on the significance, history, and place of olive trees in Palestine, as well as the different methods used by the state of Israel to destroy this ancestral staple and tradition.

Olive trees have been a major part of Hilo’s practice as an educator and community organizer. Hilo will share his project Preserve, which is curated by Emily Jacir, and supported by CHRA. Preserve focuses on the preservation and repair of the olive terraces at Dar Jacir, an arts and education center in Bethlehem.

Baha Hilo is a native Palestinian and a graduate of Birzeit University with a degree in Sociology. He has worked with human rights, and advocacy groups including the United Nations, the Badil Centre for Residency and Refugee Rights, the National Council of the YMCA in Sri Lanka, and the Silver Bay Association in NY, amongst others. He is co-founder of The Citadel – 1865, a cultural space in Beit Sahour. As an educator, Baha runs “To Be There,” an initiative that offers educational programs about the history and culture of Palestine, including the annual Olive Harvest, Palestinian Land Day, Christmas in Palestine, and more.

Moderated by Fouad Asfour, University of the Witwatersrand

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The Bard Prison Initiative, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the sixth BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture with Manuel Iturralde on “The work of Grupo de Prisiones for the defense of prisoners’ rights.”

Manuel Iturralde is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the University of Los Andes (Colombia). He is a co-director of Grupo de Prisiones (Prison Group) at the same university. His current research interests are prisons, criminology, and the sociology of punishment. In January 2021, he published The Political Economy of Punishment and the Penal State in Latin America.

This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world. In ten virtual monthly sessions, different scholars will introduce attendees to several alternative experiences in prisons. The sessions will be an hour and a half long, and each session will end with Q&A. English-Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be available in all the sessions. 

The BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series runs until June 2023.

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts (CHRA) presents a talk by Danielle Purifoy examining how the contemporary timber industry reproduces plantation power. It explores the “remote control” of land — such as absentee land ownership, Black family land grabs, new markets for energy, and legal regimes designed to “devalue” common property in favor of individual ownership and profit.

Multi-generation Black homeplaces and communities, rooted in alternative modes of land relations, sustain themselves despite the friction between the economic interests of racial capitalism and the ecological interests of long-standing forest interdependence. With the further concentration of forestland ownership and local divestment throughout the Alabama Black Belt and the US South, the reciprocal traditions of Black forest ecologies represent modes of land relation and intervention that are necessary for livable futures.

This event is moderated by Candace Clark (Tuskegee University)

Danielle Purifoy is an assistant professor of Geography at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D in Environmental Policy and African American Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on the racial politics and law of development in Black towns and communities.

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Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna

The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) invites all OSUN community members to attend a discussion with Joseph Uscinski on “Conspiracy Theories and Hate.”

Given the prevalence of conspiracy theories today, and the role they play in promoting hatred, the center presents a thought leader who has been doing cutting edge research and thinking on the topic of hate for some time. Joseph Uscinski, Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, is the author Conspiracy Theories: A Primer.

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Online Event  During February, Tuskegee University recognizes Black History Month with its annual Black History Month Lecture Series. The four-week-long virtual series will spotlight African American heritage and issues relevant to the Black community. During the month, participants can expect to explore intersections of health and wealth and environmental justice and hear from Historically Black College and University (HBCU) presidents and mayors.

Individuals at OSUN partner institutions are welcome to view the sessions online. Click here to see all events.

Some sessions that may be of particular interest to OSUN's global audience include:

Tuesday, February 21, 2 PM New York l 8 PM Vienna
Community Advocacy and Environmental
Justice Youth Engagement and Circle
Elise Tolbert, Environmental Scientist
Joshua X. Lewis, Spiritual Advisor
Jamelle M. Hanna, Founder of The Movement 46
Moderator: Candace Clark, IPPD Ph.D. Student

Thursday, February 23, 12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna
Voter Suppression
Fred McBride, Southern Poverty Law Center
Guy Trammell, Tuskegee Youth Safe Haven
Moderator: Monyai Chavers, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Thursday, February 23, 2 PM New York l 8 PM Vienna
Transforming Education in Haiti
Nesmy Manigat, Haiti’s Minister of Education
Program Participants: Mariline Hilaire and Charles Prospere

Tuesday, February 28, 3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna
Timeless Beats: From Africa to the Americas Lecture and Performance
Mausiki Scales and the Common Ground Collective
Tuskegee University Political Science Graduate

Join all events via the Zoom link below with Passcode: 705640

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Online Event  10:00 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5
10 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna

The job guarantee proposal charts a concrete path to securing the second pillar of the Democratizing Work manifesto, namely to decommodify work. It is an economic policy that provides open-ended public employment opportunities to anyone seeking decent, living-wage work. It is a structural stabilization policy that alleviates the economic, social, and political costs of unemployment and precarious employment. It is equity-driven and draws on a long tradition of human rights and social justice.
 
The next seminar in the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative's #DemocratizingWork Global Workshop Series brings together experts and policymakers who are developing or already managing large-scale national employment policies informed by the principles of the job guarantee. There are multi-pronged strategies for securing the right to decent work for all and developing employment-centered economic policies. 

Panelists
Kate Philip, Programme Lead on the Presidential Employment Stimulus in South Africa
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
Diego Guevara, General Vice Minister for Finance, Colombia
Daniel Rojas Medelin, Director, Special Assets Agency, Colombia
 
Discussants
Simon Azza (Advisor), Special Assets Agency, Colombia and Manuel Martinez (Advisor), Ministry of Finance, Colombia
 
Moderator
Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College, US

The seminar is co-sponsored by OSUN-EDI and the Democratizing Work initiative and will take place online.
 
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9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

OSUN's Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative (LAS Collab) invites all OSUN faculty interested in adapting liberal arts and sciences education models to attend its first online public gathering.

The LAS Collab was formed to provide a unique environment where institutions attempting to adapt liberal arts and sciences educational models can consult with each other and access resources to assist them in developing rigorous education protocols. The LAS Collaborative leverages OSUN’s collaborative potential so administrators and faculty can share experiences on issues such as curricular development, teaching, and advising and identifies training tools that strengthen LAS teaching.

While the Working Group of the LAS Collab has developed a list of areas that the LAS Collab can focus on, we would love to hear from interested faculty members and welcome input to suggest other potential areas. This is an informal meeting, where any faculty interested in liberal arts and sciences education could share their experiences, challenges, and solutions in their local contexts. Faculty are also welcome to give a brief presentation on any topic they think might be of relevance to the LAS Collab. 

Please write to [email protected] to confirm attendance.

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Online Event  1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
7:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna

OSUN's GeoHub project invites network community members to a talk by Ed Parsons, tech evangelist at Google, who will explore how Google Maps uses Artificial intelligence (AI) to change the way people find their way around cities.

Maps are used today more than at any point in human history. AI is a critical part of what makes Google Maps helpful. Google uses AI not only to create geospatial data but also to gain real-time insights into the world around us.

AI allows mapping roads over 10 times faster than it was possible five years ago.  AI and navigation information are used to predict traffic and determine routes, as well as to identify hard-braking events and then suggest alternate routes when available. AI is driving a shift towards multi-model navigation and mobility solutions. It is also used to develop innovative user interfaces based on visual positioning.

Ed Parsons has spent more than 20 years working in the world of geographical information systems (GIS), both in universities and in industry with companies such as Google and Ordnance Survey. In 2006, he set up his own company, Open Geomatics, and, since 2007, has been Google's GeoSpatial Technologist, which includes developing and promoting products such as Google Maps, Google Map Maker, and Street View. 

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9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the fifth BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture with Sacha Darke on “Self-Governing Prison Communities: Radical Alternatives to Punitive Detention.”

Sacha Darke is Reader in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences of the University of Westminster (London). His main research areas are Brazilian prisons and convict criminology. He is author of Conviviality and Survival: Co-Producing Brazilian Prison Order (Palgrave, 2018) and co-editor of Carceral Communities in Latin America. Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century (Palgrave, 2021).

This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world. In ten virtual monthly sessions, different scholars will introduce attendees to several alternative experiences in prisons. The sessions will be an hour and a half long, and each session will end with Q&A. English-Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be available in all the sessions. 

The BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series runs until June 2023.

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