All students and staff of Ghent University and members of the public are invited to the lecture series ‘Critical perspectives on a globalizing world’, from February to May 2014. Following up on the Academic Session on the social and political relevance of Global Studies, with which we launched the GCGS on 28 October 2013, we have the honour of hosting 4 public lectures by renowned international scholars, who will offer the most recent, innovative perspectives on  globalization processes, allowing for a more critical and profound understanding of some of the most burning global issues of today, including the financial and economic crisis, uneven development, global governance and global justice.

Exposing the exclusive offshore/onshore world of the global super-rich.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 13h-14h.

Loaction: Room Rector Vermeylen, Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent (2nd floor)

Peer Vries, Professor of Global Economic History, University of Vienna:

How did global economic inequality emerge?

Monday 10 March 2014, 13h-14h.

Location: Room Rector Vermeylen, Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent (2nd floor)

Heikki Patömaki, Professor of World Politics, University of Helsinki:

On the dialectics of global governance models: a Polanyian double movement? 

Monday 31 March 2014, 13h-14h.

CHANGE OF VENUE: Filmzaal Plateau, Paddenhoek 3, 9000 Gent

Simon Caney, Professor of Political Theory, Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Justice, University of Oxford:

Global injustice and the rights of the disadvantaged. 

Tuesday 6 May, 13h-14h.

Location: Room Rector Vermeylen, Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent (2nd floor)

All lectures are in English.

Admission is free.