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The Death of Globalization? You Won’t Find It in New Orleans

person looking up at stack of shipping containers
January 20, 2023

Eswar Prasad, SAP

“Corporations do seem convinced still of the benefits of globalization, but what they’re trying to do is mitigate some of the risks,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy. “What you’re really looking at is changes in the pattern of globalization, rather than overall volumes of global trade or financial flows.”

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The U.S.-China Rift Is Only Growing Wider

Great Wall of China (aerial view) with mountains in background
March 9, 2023

Jessica Chen Weiss, EAP

"Efforts to reduce Beijing’s sense of urgency over Taiwan could help limit the degree of China-Russia alignment, strengthening the overall U.S. strategic position,” says A&S and Brooks School Professor Jessica Chen Weiss. “And Taiwan needs more time to muster the resources and political will to develop an asymmetric, whole-of-society defense.”

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Laid-Off H-1B Workers May Get 6-Month Reprieve

People inside World Trade Center transporation hub
March 16, 2023

Stephen Yale-Loehr, Migrations

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says if the USCIS were to extend the grace period from 60 to 180 days, it would be a lengthy multi-step process and suggests “laid-off H-1B workers should not get their hopes up yet. ”

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Lost in Translation

international students studying at US university
March 15, 2023

Eli Friedman, EAP

“We have a long history of scapegoating Chinese Americans in this country, going back to the 19th century,” said Eli Friedman, associate professor at the Industrial and Labor Relations School. “These are currents in American society that I would have thought we had a consensus on, and we see them sort of reemerging in some really unfortunate ways.” 

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Human-ing Out Loud: Ontologies of Disorder in a Musically Exemplified Trans-Caribbean-Thought

April 19, 2023

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Jouvay, the midnight jamboree heralding the start of carnival on West Indian islands transposed to the Neerlandophone world, presents an ongoing conversation about how to human in singular-multiple ways which are sensitive to relations between so-called species, spirits, saints, mythical characters, and devils.

Another ecosystem, boundless and disenchanted by difference, is imagined and temporarily created in daaance. With three aaa’s, daaance rather than dance encompasses movement, singing, drumming, reverence, language, food, sacrifice, ritual, politics, politricks, and passion. This other ecosystem, perpetually negating systematicity, is a space and a short-offered time where inter- and intra-subjective play, sounding out, and daaance allow for different futures to be imagined and new forms of human-ing that embraces relations with non-human animals and life and death to be practiced. It is a refusal of exclusion and a move towards making inequity inexact.

In introducing Trans-Caribbean-Thought a queer cousin of decoloniality, critical race studies, postcoloniality, Marxism, and Feminism an extra option is offered for keepers of nonconformity to remain transmitters of one-pluriversal Love.

Dr. Francio Guadeloupe is senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean studies and Associate Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is author of Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2009) and Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology (University Press of Mississippi, 2022).

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Keywords: Trans-Caribbean-Thought; Neerlandophone; humanocentrism; music; human-ing; relationality

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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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