Description:

Please join us for the second event of Global Governance in the Age of COVID, an iniative of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern. This webinar will feature a dialogue with Northwestern faculty members Beth Redbird and Helen Tilley.

about the speakers

Beth Redbird is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern and a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR). She studies the impact of group structure on inequality. Her primary research interests are racial inequality (particularly Native American inequality); group interactions; occupations and work; social class; and survey methodology. In particular, she studies the consequences of human movement and interaction on inequality. Her research focuses on the simple proposition that boundaries both create inequality by generating rent and alter the relationships within and between bounded groups.

Helen Tilley is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern. Her work examines medical, environmental, and human sciences in colonial and post-colonial Africa, emphasizing intersections with environmental history, development studies, legal history, and global history. She is the author of Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge (2011). Her current project focuses on the history of African decolonization, global governance, and the ethnoscientific projects that accompanied state building in the colonial and Cold War era. She is affiliated with the Science in Human Culture Program, the Program of African Studies, the Environmental Policy and Culture Program, and the Global Health Studies Program.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required:

https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpcOyqrTouGN0Mx6Ep3y464sx6HL9aZUn2

After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the meeting.