Thursday, February 08, 2024 - 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Memorial Union Building Theater I
We are excited to kick off our Spring 2024 New Hampshire International Seminar (NHIS) lecture series with Dr. Carolyn Biltoft on Thursday, February 8 at 12:40-2pm in MUB Theater I.
Dr. Biltoft is an Associate Professor of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her works fuses the tools of world history, intellectual history, cultural studies and critical theory. She is interested broadly in the dynamic interactions between globalising structures and infrastructures and diverse beliefs, emotions, concepts and human life-worlds.
In her talk, "Global Projections: Maps, Minds, and Movies," Dr. Biltoft argues, that any effort to think with the concepts of globalization or
global modernity, requires looking at the “globe” itself as a conceptual screen
onto which we project many heterogenous versions of the past and many divergent
visions of the future. In other words, ideas about the “globe” need to be
historicized and theorized as part and parcel of the condition we seek to
describe and explain.
The New Hampshire International Seminar (NHIS) is a series of talks organized by the International Affairs Program at UNH to cultivate community-wide dialogue on critical global issues.
Join us on this intellectual journey, where UNH faculty, staff, students, and community members come together to explore the pivotal facets of international affairs that shape our world!
This event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and International Affairs with generous support from the Center for the Humanities, the Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project (RGSCP), Department of Anthropology, Department of History, and the COLA Office of the Dean.
