Rising Tides Lift All Boats: The Strategic Relationship Between the U.S. and Mexico
A public lecture by Arturo Sarukhán, the former Mexican ambassador to the U.S., who served in this position from 2007–2013. The grandson and son of conflict refugees to Mexico, he rose to become the youngest and longest-serving Mexican ambassador to Washington in recent history. Based on his 20-year career with the Mexican Foreign Service, Ambassador Sarukhán will share insights into trade, border policy, environmental policy, and security that affect both countries, and describe how the United States and Mexico share a deeply “inter-mestic” (international + domestic) relationship. He is currently a diplomat in residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and a distinguished visiting professor at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern Florida (USC).
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7:30pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University Street, Wooster, OH
Border Lines and Global Flows: The Future of Border Management and Security Is Not What It Used To Be
A public lecture by Alan Bersin who served from 2012-17 as Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Bersin currently serves as a senior advisor at the global law firm of Covington & Burling; as an inaugural senior fellow in the Homeland Security Project at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; as a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars; and as inaugural North America fellow at the Canada Institute and the Mexico Institute (Wilson Center). In addition to his public lecture, he will also be spending a week on campus as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020, at 7:30pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University Street, Wooster, OH
Lifeboat, Documentary film screening and director-led discussion
This documentary film screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Skye Fitzgerald a filmmaker who has explored complex issues of human rights and social justice on a global scale for nearly twenty years. Based in Portland, Oregon, Fitzgerald has collaborated with or received support from the Sundance Institute, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the State Department, and the Paul Robeson Fund. In 2006, Mr. Fitzgerald was named a Fulbright Research Scholar in order to research and produce the film Bombhunters, which provided an unsettling glimpse into the effects of unexploded ordnance on Cambodian people. His film 50 Feet from Syria was shortlisted for the 88th Academy Awards in the Documentary Short Subject category, and Lifeboat was nominated for both an Academy and an Emmy Award for a short documentary. He has been recognized by publications such as Variety, LA Weekly, Asian Reporter, and Documentary Drive for his unflinching portraits of burgeoning social issues in 20+ countries.
Wednesday, April 1, 2022, at 7:30pm
How is China Coping with the Trade War?
A public lecture by Ka Zeng, a Professor of Political Science and Director of Asian Studies at the University of Arkansas. Her research focuses on China’s role in the global economy, in particular, Chinese trade policy, China’s behavior in the World Trade Organization, and China-related trade dispute dynamics. She is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Trade Threats, Trade Wars (Michigan 2004), Greening China (Michigan 2011), and has also edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including China’s Foreign Trade Policy (Routledge 2007), China and Global Trade Governance (Routledge 2013), and Handbook on the International Political Economy of China (Edward Elgar 2019). She has published articles in scholarly journals such as Internation-al Studies Quarterly, Review of International Organizations, China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. Dr. Zeng is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations.
Thursday, April 9, 2020, at 7:30pm
Trade with your Neighbour: A Canadian Farmer’s Perspective on the USMCA (or new NAFTA)
A public lecture presented by Cherilyn Jolly Nagel, a Canadian farmer and agriculture policy advocate. In 2004, she was elected as the first female President of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers’ Association, served in that position for 6 years, and is still a director on the current board. She has also travelled internationally, representing the Western Canadian Wheat Growers at the World Trade Organizations Ministerial Meetings in Hong Kong. Ms. Jolly-Nagel has also contributed as an author for the Global Farmer Network, writing on topics including the necessity of NAFTA for farmers around the world and the importance of technology in food safety. In 2017, she was invited to represent Canada as an International Director for the Global Farmer Network and currently remains in that position, where she advocates for strong global trade relations and lobbies for farmers’ rights to technological advancements.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020, at 7:30pm
