Special international speaker, Gertrude Goh, from Ghana, will share the popular food culture phenomenon of Jollof Rice and the digital, and in person "war" across the African diaspora. Which Jollof Rice reigns supreme: Senegalese, Ghanaian, or Nigerian?
Event open to all students, faculty, staff, and Puget Sound community members.
Professor Rini holds the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition at York University in Toronto. Previously, she was Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Bioethics, and an affiliate faculty member in the Medical Ethics division of the NYU Department of Population Health.
Join us for a special guest lecture by Dr. Jing Xu, an anthropologist at the University of Washington, as she presents insights from her latest book, Unruly Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village (Cambridge University Press, 2024). This talk explores unpublished fieldnotes from the late anthropologist Arthur Wolf, focusing on children's moral development, disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics in a Taiwan village from 1958 to 1960.
Henryk Szadziewski is Director of Research at the Uyghur Human Rights Project. He also holds a Ph.D. from University of Hawai'i.
Amartya Kanjilal is a New Delhi based human rights lawyer and researcher. He has worked extensively on the rights of prisoners sentenced to death, providing legal representation to several death row prisoners in the courts. He is an advocate with the Centre on the Death Penalty at the National Law University, Delhi. Amartya has also researched and written extensively on issues of carcerality, criminal law reform and constitutional law in the Indian context.
Come join us for a talk with Dan Galpern, General Counsel and Executive Director at The Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative. This is the part of The Environmental Justice Speakers Series.
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