Events

On March 27th, 2018, Dr. Pardis Mahdavi visited her alma mater, Occidental College, and lectured at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs about Human Trafficking and Terror: Questioning the Construction of a Global Social Problem. She discussed her third book called Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai where she discusses the narratives around sex work and the...

Shalmali Guttal is the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, an activist think tank in Asia providing analysis and building alternatives for just social, economic and political change.

Mary Thompson-Jones is the Chair of Women in National Security and Diplomacy at the U.S. Naval War College.

Diane Amann, chair of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, visited Occidental College to deliver a lecture at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs on January 31, 2018. Amann discussed Trump and the United States’ relationship with human rights and how the importance of human rights has changed at home and abroad.

Partnership will help City collect data and track progress on broad range of economic, environmental, and other targets adopted by United Nations members.

Partnership will help City collect data and track progress on broad range of economic, environmental, and other targets adopted by United Nations members.

Celeste Wallander is the President and CEO of the non-profit U.S.-Russia Foundation.

Paul Divakar, General Secretary of the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) and a transnational voice for peoples affected by Discrimination based on Work or Descent (DWD) spoke about the struggles faced by these communities and the growing power of international groups that link these communities outside their countries. 

David Goldblatt is one of the leading experts on sports and soccer and has written numerous books including the ball is round a global history of soccer.  He spoke at Oxy about the crisis facing sports right now.  Despite sports enjoying a historical high point in terms of popularity it also faces a growing number of scandals and crises.

Glen Fukushima returned to his native California and visited Occidental College to deliver a lecture at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs on October 24, 2017. Mr. Fukushima discussed the United States’ past relations with Japan under the Obama administration as well as the current relations with Japan under the Trump administration.