2023
- Fatima Rahman, PhD (SUA), “State Adoption of Islamic Doctrine and Women’s Economic Rights” (14 March 2023), Student Center 405
- Ambassador Frank O. Mara (US Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States), “US-Latin American Relations” Athenaeum Dining Room
- Bruno Andrade (UCLA Professor), “Brazilian Capoeira and the Black Atlantic” (7 March 2023), Dance Studio
- Ron Plate (Journalist), “International Journalism, Cybermedia, and American Media on China: An Informal Chat” (21 February 2023), Maathai 207
2022
- Evan Chan (film critic and director), “The Umbrella Movement and Martin Luther King: A Filmmaker’s Reflection” (2 December 2022), virtual event
- US Ambassador Todd Chapman and Professor Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr., “Is Democracy at Stake? Brazil’s Electoral Battles” (3 November 2022), Anthenaeum
- Dr. Okezi T. Otovo (Florida International University) and Dr. Jonathan M. Weber (independent scholar), “Public Health Histories in Brazil and Mexico” (26 October 2022), virtual event
- Spencer Louis Potiker (Doctoral Candidate in Global and International Studies at UC Irvine and Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego), “Understanding the Cross-Border Supply Chain: Transnational Migration, Urban Development, and Labor in San-Diego” (4 October 2022), Maathai 207
- TJ Peterson (OC Human Trafficking Task Force), “Human Trafficking in Our Community” (09 May 2022), virtual event
- Jeannie Shinozuka (Soka University of America), “Book Launch: Biotic Borders” (02 May 2022), Curie 200
- Wai-Ting Yen (Franklin and Marshall College), “Fighting the Virus: The Politics of COVID-19 Response in Taiwan and Beyond” (26 April 2022), virtual event. See the entire talk here
- Fatima Rahman (Soka University of America), “Muslim American Women’s Attitudes towards Islamic Law: Support or Rejection?” (18 April 2022), Maathai 207
2021
- Rose J. Spalding (DePaul University), “Political Determination and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua” (03 November 2021), virtual event.
- Ariel Ahram
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), “A Decade of War, Fragmentation, and Integration in the Middle East, 2011-2021” (15 April 2021), virtual event. See the entire talk here. - Andrés Arauz (Presidential Candidate, Ecuador), “Ecuador’s Political, Social, and Economic Prospects”, Discussion with Dr. Max Cameron (University of British Columbia), Chaired by Melissa Rogers (Claremont Graduate University) (01 April 2021), virtual event. See the entire talk here.
- Elizabeth Oglesby (University of Arizona, Tucson), “Whose “Border Crisis?” Migration and Human Rights on the US Southern Border” (17 March 2021), virtual event
- Jasmine Mitchell (State University of New York- Old Westbury), “Fearing and Desiring of Black Women: A Book Talk on Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media” (03 March 2021), virtual event
2020
- Catherine Ceniza Choy (UC Berkeley), “Filipino Nurses on the Frontlines: How and Why We Need To Care For Caregivers Now” (19 November 2020), virtual event
Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading UK), “UN Peacekeeping: Evolution and Contemporary Challenges” (03 November 2020), virtual event- Urmi Engineer Willoughby (Huntington Library) and Christopher Willoughby (Pennsylvania State University), “Medical Histories of Culture and Environment” (09 March 2020), MAA 207
- Andrea Bartoli, “The Community of Sant’Egidio and the Insight of Approach: The Challenge of Understanding Peace-Work” (10 February 2020), Pauling 216
2019
- Ben Rhodes, “The World As It Is: An Evening with Ben Rhodes” (22 October 2019). Organized in partnership with the World Affairs Council
- Ambassador Mohammad Reza Amirkhizi, “Dynamics of Multilateral Negotiations: The Iran Nuclear Deal” (16 October 2019), Pauling 216
- Jeannie Shinozuka, “U.S. Biological Nativism and Japanese Invasions: Japanese Plant, Insect, and Human Immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s” (11 September 2019), MAA 207
2018
- Jessica Graham (UC San Diego) “Black Internationalism in Brazil in the 1930s” (31 October 2018)
- Mark C. Baldwin (Film Producer, Los Angeles) screened his new documentary “Tropical Iron: The Saga Of Minor Keith” followed by Q&A (27 October 2018), Pauling 216
- iDebate Rwanda, “What Rwanda Teaches us about the Dangers of Polarization: Building Discourse in a Post-Genocidal Generation” (14 September 2018)
- Martin Nekola (Democracy 2.1), “Czechoslovak Exile After 1948: Activities, Problems and International Cooperation” (19 April 2018), MAA 207
- José Juan Pérez Meléndez (UC Davis), “Amazon Incorporated: How One Company Pried Open the World’s Lung to Extractive Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Brazil” (09 February 2018), MAA 207
2017
- Nabil Al-Tikriti, “MSF and Humanitarian Health Policy,” (02 December 2017), Ikeda Grand Reading Room. Organized in partnership with the Humanities Concentration
- Conference: “Disease and Disease Control in Eras of Globalization” (September 22-23 2917), Athenaeum. Organized by Ian Read and Michael Weiner, and featuring several experts from SUA and other universities
- Sallama Shaker (Claremont Graduate University), “The Challenges of Diplomacy in a Global Era” (21 April 2017), Pauling 216
- Ana Muniz (UC Irvine), “Sanctuary in an Age of Crimmigation: Gang Databases and Joint Immigration Enforcement” (08 March 2017)
- Michael Jerryson (Youngstown State University), “Humanity’s Penchant for Violence: Patterns of Religious Expressions” (06 March 2017) (co-sponsored with the Pacific Basin Research Center)
- Dee Aker (UC San Diego), “Strategic Peacebuilding Perspectives Illustrated through Stories of Nepal’s Conflict Transformations” (27 February 2017)
2016
- Heidi Hardt (UC Irvine), “NATO & Institutional Learning” (16 November 2016)
- The Roots Awaken, Directed by Jennifer Hayashi SUA Class of 2014 (06 October 2016)
- Nichlas Onuf (Florida International University), “The Value of Theoretical Thinking” (05 October 2016)
2015
- Linh Tran (Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force), “Human Trafficking in Orange County: Domestic and International Factors” (01 December 2015)
- Ronald H. Chilcote (University of California Riverside), “Trends in Latin America’s Political Economy: The Case of Intellectual Discourse in Brazil” (08 October 2015)
- Elli Kim (University of Southern California), “North Korean Postcolonial Ambition: Travel Ocherk as Anti-Imperialist Praxis” (co-sponsored with Humanities) (06 May 2015)
- Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California), “Writing on the Left in Colonial Korea: New Perspectives and Future Directions” (co-sponsored with Humanities) (08 April 2015)
- Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois), “Surveillance and Sickness in 18th Century Jamaica” (25 March 2015)
2014
- Fredy Peccerrelli (Fundacion de Antropologia Forense de Guatemala), “The Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala and its Search for the Disappeared” (23 September 2014)
- David A Shirk (University of San Diego), “The Drug War in Mexico” (10 September 2014)
- Ya-Chung Chuang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), “Talking Democracy: From Normalized Political Process to Politicized Everyday Life in Post-Authoritarian Taiwan” (16 April 2014)
- Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar College), “Africa Uprising! Popular Politics and Unarmed Resistance” (11 March 2014)
2013
- V. Spike Peterson (University of Arizona), “Intersections and Inequalities of Global Politics Economy” (15 November 2013)
- Marisa C. Cianciarulo (Chapman University), “Immigration Reform: Hopes, Dreams, and Realities” (19 September 2013)
- Michael Jerryson (Youngstown State University), “Buddhism and Violence: The State of Exception” (25 March 2013)
- Event: “Screening of How to Survive a Plague by Charles Stallard”
2012
- John Hall (Chapman University), “Genocide, Cambodia, and Criminal Accountability” (29 March 2012)
- Jonathan Lipman (Mount Holyoke College), “Muslims in the People’s Republic of China: Identification and Identity” (16 February 2012)
- Tova Norlen (The George Washington University), “A Changing Middle East: US and European Perspectives on Israel and its Neighbors”
- Event: “16th Annual Southern California Brazilian Studies Conference”
- Event: “Nuclear Disarmament Conference”
2011
Joshua Goldstein (American University), “Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide“- Jan Luedert (University of British Columbia), “Inventing the Indigenous: The International Labour Organization and Indigenous Peoples” (07 November 2011)
- Daniel Sharp (Central American Resource Center), “Can Law Ensure Social Justice for Latin Americans?” (co-sponsored with Student Affairs) (05 October 2011)
- Sam Silberberg, “Surviving the Holocaust”
Event: “Screening of A Small Act by Jennifer Arnold” - Event: “Nightwind: A Theatrical Performance by Hector Aristizabal” (co-sponsored by SBS)
- Event: “Screening of Little Town of Bethlehem” (co-sponsored with Student Affairs)
2010
- Luis Argueta: “Screening of Abused: The Postville Raid by Luis Argueta” (co-sponsored with SBS)
- John Hall (Chapman University), “The Khmer Rouge Tribunals: A First-Person Perspective“
- Miriam Miranda (Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras), Andres Pavon (Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras), Angel Antonio Jiminez (Peasant Communities and Cooperatives), and Marcelino Borjas (Universidad Pedagogica Nacional), “Understanding the Social and Political
Impact of the 2009 Honduran Coup D’Etat” (co-sponsored with SBS) - Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School), “Is Brazil Taking Off?”
- Nicholas Onuf (Florida International University), “Why Theory is Easy, Fun, and Even Sometimes Important”
- Lise Sedrez (California State University Long Beach), “Local Bay, Global Politics: A History of the Failure to Clean Up Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro”
- Nayereh Tohidi (California State, Northridge), “Women’s Rights in Islamic Societies” (08 March 2010)
2009
- Arturo Albizures and Boris Hernandez (Asociacion Comunicarte Guatemala), “Twenty Years of Documenting Community Activism and Historical Memory in Brazil” (co-sponsored with SBS)
- Event: “International Day of Peace Commemoration: A Screening of Pray the Devil Back to Hell by Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker”