As part of the International Institute's mission to grow the knowledge and exposure of global events, opportunities, cultures, and challenges, funding is made available to faculty, staff, and departments to host visiting scholars. The goal of this funding is to inspire our students to engage at a global level and allow our Faculty and Staff to facilitate global relationships. Each year the topic will change with current events and as opportunities arise.
From the Archive: Showcasing the 2019-2020 Global Engagement Lecture Series
The Theme: Displaced Persons
The International Institute previously sparked dialogue by facilitating a lecture series around the theme of Displaced Persons.
| Representative | Lecture / Exhibit |
| Dr. Elizabeth Wirtz, Purdue University |
Banning Traditional Birth Attendants: Obstetric Violence and Maternal Health in Kakuma Refugee Camp Information found HERE |
| Mohamad Hafez, Syrian-born Artist and Architect |
Art Exhibit and Conversations on Immigrants and Refugees and Outside of the Middle East Information found HERE |
| Daniel Gustafson, Deputy Director General for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization |
International Community Response for Crisis Response and Resilience focusing on 3 themes: The first theme is sustaining the livelihoods of rural families in crisis situations to mitigate the necessity to migrate and stabilize domestic production. The second theme is the incorporation of large-scale refugees into recipient societies. The third theme is the work FAO and others are doing in refugee camps to provide jobs, necessary resources, and increase security. |
| John Halaka, visiting artist talk |
"As an artist of Palestinian descent I investigate through my drawings, photographs, films and paintings, cycles of repression and displacement, as well as the personal and political relationships between desire, denial and instability. One of the objectives of my creative practice, is to firmly place the experiences of Palestinian displacement in the international discourse on human rights, forced migration and the right of return of indigenous refugees." - John Halaka |