“Guest speaker to provide 'fresh' perspective on globalization”

Guest speaker to provide 'fresh' perspective on globalization

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 02:26 AM PDT

October 11, 2010

By Alaina Gallagher

Students with an interest in politics, history and international studies will have a chance to learn more about Africa through the perspective of a European this week.

Guest speaker Jeremy Black will visit Penn State to deliver a series of lectures pertaining to Africa and its relationship with the world. The lectures are part of the Distinguished Guest Lecture Series being presented by the African and African American Studies Department.

Since Black is an historian from England and a professor of history at the University of Exeter, he will provide students with a fresh and interesting perspective on globalization allowing students to learn how people from other countries view the United States and the rest of the world, associate African and African American Studies professor Darryl Thomas said.

Each year the department tries to host a guest speaker who is knowledgeable about issues that are important not only to Africans and African Americans, Thomas said, but to the entire university community as well.

The aim of the lectures is "to increase dialogue and intellectual discourse between the department and the rest of the Penn State community," he said.

Thomas said Monday's lecture will be about the Western world's relations with Africa, Tuesday's lecture at 4:30 p.m. in the Foster Auditorium will cover war and instability in the 21st century and Wednesday's lecture in 262 Willard Building at 4:30 p.m. will conclude with a lecture about slavery and world history.

Associate African and African American studies professor Cary Fraser said the lectures will "provide an opportunity for students to listen to someone who is writing extensively on a broad range of issues of international importance."

Fraser said the lectures will also be an opportunity to "enhance students' understanding of how an international system operates and how we can all contribute to making the world a better place."

The lectures are free and open to the public.

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