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Global Affairs Major Info Session Oct. 6

All students interested in the Global Affairs major and Global Affairs courses are invited to an info session with faculty, staff, and students to learn more about the major and the application process. The Global Affairs major is designed to give students the social science research tools necessary to solve today’s most pressing global problems.

Light refreshments will be served.

Mariachi Herencia de México

¡Viva el mariachi! A new generation takes mariachi to whole new heights—Latin Grammy-nominee Mariachi Herencia de México presents Herederos (the “Heirs”). Simultaneously honoring the past, celebrating the present, and creating the future of mariachi music.

Celebrate Día de los Muertos with an unforgettable night of Mexican music and culture at Shubert Theatre!

Thea Riofrancos: Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

The core of the Agrarian Studies Program’s activities is a weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. Invited specialists send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium.

This topic embraces, inter alia, the study of mutual perceptions between countryside and city, and patterns of cultural and material exchange, extraction, migration, credit, legal systems, and political order that link them.

Dan Saladino: Seedbanks: necessary but not sufficient. We need to save entire food landscapes

In Eating to Extinction, the distinguished BBC food journalist Dan Saladino travels the world to experience and document our most at-risk foods before it’s too late. From an Indigenous American chef refining precolonial recipes to farmers tending Geechee red peas on the Sea Islands of Georgia, the individuals profiled in Eating to Extinction are essential guides to treasured foods the rest of us have forgotten or didn’t know existed.

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