Choi Auditorium

In our technologically sophisticated, highly global economy, broadly-shared economic growth has been elusive. Decades of increasing economic inequality and wage stagnation have left many policy-makers struggling with the ideal response. The Trump administration was elected on a wave of populist sentiment, yet their signature policy achievements are tax legislation that clearly prioritizes business tax cuts, coupled with trade and immigration policies that purport to put “America first” but are far more likely to harm US workers due to large collateral damage.

Dr. Momin Rahman is a professor of sociology at Trent University. His scholarship focuses on LGBT citizenship and its role in Muslim culture, politics, and identity. Prof. Rahman's multiple publications, such as  "Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures, and Modernity" (2014) and expertise in Identity and Queer Politics turned him into an internationally recognized scholar on LGBTQ Rights.

Welcome, Neighbor is led by Miry Whitehill, founder and executive director of Miry’s List. Miry started Miry's List in Eagle Rock in July 2016 when a friend introduced her to a family of new arrival Syrian refugees resettling in Los Angeles with kids the same age as her own.

Join the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, the Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy for a discussion on Refugees resettlement on September 20, at 1:55 pm in Choi Auditorium.

You can register for recruitment at: https://forms.gle/YLifZfgGQRX8YwQWA 

Registration closes Tues Sept 10 at 11:59pm. 

Come learn more about Greek Life at Oxy and the recruitment process at the events below. Hope to see you there!

Steven L. B. Jensen, a lead researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, will present a fundamental reinterpretation of the history of international human rights after 1945. Jensen focuses on the agency of the global south and their role in advancing human rights around the world. Jensen won the 2017 Best Book on Human Rights for his paradigm-shifting research. Join us for a fresh look at the making of human rights!

Alison Brysk is Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Brysk has been named both an International Studies Association and an American Political Science Association Distinguished Scholar of Human Rights. Her wide-ranging research draws both on global theorizing as well as fieldwork on human rights in Latin America and Asia.

In lieu of flowers, we ask that gifts in George's memory be made to Occidental College for physics undergraduate research (see below).

The event will be livestreamed below, Friday at 3 p.m. PST.

Join Boundless Brilliance in this can't-miss program. There will be light refreshments and a book signing. Get in free with a student ID or $5 for staff and community members.

$100 Amazon gift card to the winning team. Refreshments will be served! 

Email mcifuentes@oxy.edu to sign up.

We have wild survivor dreams. In them, we are free. Join  disability/ transformative justice/ femme of color activist and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for a poetic keynote exploring how survivor brilliance is dreaming a work beyond sexual abuse, prisons and white supremacist ableist cissexist patriarchy.

Choi Auditorium is a wheelchair-accessible space. Please refrain from wearing fragranced products at the event.