Aaron James, professor of philosophy at University of California-Irvine, works on rationalism and the foundations of moral and practical judgment, with a focus on constructivism (what it is, how it might explain objectivity, and whether it could provide a foundational theory). He is author of Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy (Oxford, 2012), and is planning a book on the morality and political economy of distribution for a world of increasing ecological scarcity and lower growth rates (at least in the advanced world). In this talk, James will discuss the potential consequences of Modern Money Theory (MMT) for trade partner countries. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/jamesa

Ludivine Bantigny is assistant professor of history at University of Rouen Normandy. In recent years, her research has been devoted to the 1968 event and the various mobilizations that followed (feminisms, "sexual revolution", political cultures). She is the author of 1968, de grands soirs en petits matins (Seuil, 2018); La France à l'heure du monde. De 1981 à nos jours (Seuil, 2013, 2019); and «Prolétaires de tous les pays, qui lave vos chaussettes ?». Le genre de l'engagement dans les années 1968 (PUR, 2017, with Fanny Bugnon and Fanny Gallot). In this talk she will discuss the projects that were forged by the protagonists of the social and political movement in 1968. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/bantignyl

Erik Voeten is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department. He has completed research on the United Nations, the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and broader issues of international law and cooperation. He is also editor of the academic journal International Organization. In this event, Voeten will discuss evidence that the European Court of Human Rights is responding to backlash from consolidated liberal democracies. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/voetene

Sally Haslanger is a professor of linguistics and philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published on topics in metaphysics, epistemology and feminist theory, with a recent emphasis on accounts of the social construction of race and gender. In this event, Haslanger will argue that laws and institutions depend on social meanings embedded in a system of power relations, internalizing an ideology that distorts, obscures, and occludes important facts and results in a failure to recognize the interests of subordinated groups. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/haslangers

Professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Rouen, Raphaëlle Branche has worked extensively on colonial violence, focusing on French Algeria. She examines issues of illegal violence such as rape, torture, summary executions mainly from the point of view of the perpetrators. She has also addressed more specifically the issue of prisoners during the French-Algerian war (1954-1962) and acts of violence committed by the Algerian civilians and combatants during the war of independence as well as during the 1871 uprising. In this event, Branche will discuss amnesty laws passed in the 1960s to quell violence. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/brancher

Few today are aware that in 1948-1949 the United States played the decisive role in securing Indonesia's independence from the Dutch. This year's 70th anniversary of US-Indonesia diplomatic relations is thus a fitting time for Indonesians and Americans to learn more about the U.S. role in Indonesia's independence and the foundations of the U.S.-Indonesia relationship, valuable for us now and for the decades ahead. Robert McMahon, Ralph D. Mershon Professor Emeritus at Ohio State, will speak at the U.S.-Indonesia Society in Jakarta. The event will be livestreamed at http://atamerica.or.id/video, then a recording will be uploaded on the society's website and YouTube channel.  Register here

What does it mean to speak of a global Africa and how does it help to move conversations regarding nature conservation and rangeland management in new directions? Mara Goldman, associate professor of geography at University of Colorado-Boulder, will focus on one part of Africa (the semi-arid rangelands of Tanzania and Kenya), and one group of people who live there (Maasai pastoralists / agropastoralists), who are piecing together different ways of knowing and being with nature in conjunction with Western enforced management schemes, to make sense of changing social and physical environments. Read more (pdf)

Zara Anishanslin (left) is associate professor of history and art history at University of Delaware. She will speak on art and material culture in the American Revolution. John Lear is professor of history at University of Puget Sound, where he specializes in Modern Latin America. His talk will focus on Diego Rivera as an artist/political figure in the Mexican Revolution and the Cold War. Byron Hamann, associate professor of history of art at Ohio State will provide commentary. Co-sponsored by History of Art and the Center for Latin American Studies.