Farhad Varahram (Tehran University & Iranian Documentary Guild)

This event commences with the film ‘Black people of Iran’, followed by a Q&A session with the director Farhad Varahram.

Professor Joseph Wong (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto)

In this webinar, Professor Wong argues the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should consider democratizing sooner rather than later, to usher in democratic reform in China, and importantly, for the regime to maintain political power

Kelsey Norman (Baker Institute, Rice University)

Seeking to understand why host states treat migrants and refugees inclusively, exclusively, or without any direct engagement, Kelsey Norman offers this original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa.

Will Gardner (Swarthmore)

Will Gardner will discuss the confluence between architecture and science fiction in postwar Japan, exploring how architects and SF authors developed such shared themes as futurity, ruins, and apocalypse.

Awelani Sadiki and Bongani Ncube (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa)

Amy Mitchell-Bell

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