Global Week 2020 - Archive

Check out Global Week Videos for recordings of select events listed below.

This year, all events and activities took place virtually. See the links on the Global Week at UVA main page for other ways to engage.

Archived Event Schedule

Global Journeys Events

Monday, Oct. 26

Careers in International Business and Law

1:00 – 2:00pm

In the Careers in International Business and Law panel, UVA alumni panelists will share insights about incorporating global interests and perspectives into their careers both within and outside the U.S. These alumni panelists are eager to encourage students with global interests to find ways to chart their career paths and can offer their own experience and advice. Panelists include senior client advisor at Deutsche Bank in Geneva, Switzerland; leaders of companies in the aerospace, high tech, and financial industries; and an attorney who practices immigration and nationality law.

The panelists are:

Karen Aaslestad-Aubouy (CLAS ’86): Karen is a Director and Senior Client Advisor at Deutsche Bank in Geneva, Switzerland with over 30 years of experience in the financial markets. After graduating from UVA, she started her career at Shearson Lehman Bros in New York working on the Eurobond Desk before moving to Paris, where she pursued her career with Merrill Lynch and AIG, covering both institutional investors and private clients. She held a senior position at Rothschilds in Paris before relocating to Geneva in 2000 to build and manage the structured product offering within the international division of Barclays Wealth Management, a role that required much travel throughout Europe and Asia. In 2007 she joined Credit Suisse and focused on the delivery of investment banking solutions for the UHNW and Family Office segment. Karen joined the Swiss Coverage team at Deutsche Bank Wealth Management in early 2018 to continue to service the needs of UHNW and Family Office clients based in French speaking Switzerland. Karen is of Norwegian-American background and is fluent in French and English. Karen’s husband is French and they have three daughters.

Jeff Bae (COMM ’95): Jeff provides valuation consulting services for business owners, attorneys, accountants, and other professional services providers, for gift and estate tax reporting, income tax reporting, reorganizations, buy/sell agreements, marital dissolution, litigation support, IRC §409A (deferred compensation), financial reporting (i.e., ASC 805/350 and SFAS 123R), ESOPs, and financing purposes. Jeff’s main expertise is in the valuation of ownership interests in operating businesses and closely-held, private entities that own real properties, marketable securities, private equity/hedge funds, and other investments. Jeff has been involved in over 6,000 valuation engagements and has been with Valuation Services, Inc. since 2002. Jeff began his career as an international tax associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their National Tax Office. He graduated from Emory University with a BA in Sociology, University of Virginia with an MS in Accounting and University of Miami School of Law. His wife, Kristen, is a graduate of UVA’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Patricia Cooper (CLAS ’05, LAW ’10): Patricia is an attorney at the law firm of Robert M Bell, PA in Hollywood, Florida and is dedicated solely to the practice of immigration and nationality law. She represents foreign nationals before the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the asylum offices, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and U.S. consulates abroad. Patricia has been a speaker on removal defense and immigration law panels hosted by the Broward County Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She is currently a board member of the South Florida Chapter of AILA. Prior to entering private practice, Patricia was an attorney advisor at the Miami Immigration Court. She advised the immigration judges on legal issues in deportation cases and drafted written decisions. Patricia’s interest in immigration law stems from her experiences traveling internationally, studying foreign languages abroad, and working with asylum seekers in Ecuador. She is a member of the District of Columbia bar and is fluent in Spanish.

Victoria Gilchrist (CLAS ’95): Victoria is a native of Newport News, VA and considers herself a citizen of the world. She currently resides in Phoenix, AZ but she has lived on four continents and traveled extensively in between. She also has an MBA from the University of Southern California and a Master’s in Sustainability Leadership from Arizona State University. Victoria is a Sustainability Program Manager for Intel Corp.

Maria Gutierrez (Norin) (CLAS ’90): Maria has more than 20 years of corporate law experience in commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, securities and governance matters for large international manufacturing companies such as the Genicom, Comsat, and Andrew corporations and most recently The Boeing Company, which supports airlines and customers in 150 countries. She is a native Spanish speaker and served as Director of Legal Affairs for Gilat Latin America, Inc., the US subsidiary of an Israeli satellite equipment manufacturer, a position that initially brought her to Florida. Maria has travelled extensively for business throughout North America, Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. She has led staff in the U.K., Hong Kong, France and Australia as well as worked with outside counsel in many foreign jurisdictions. As a former Lawn Resident, Maria is especially proud of her work with the University of Virginia, both in the development and fundraising activities for the historic Jeffersonian Grounds Initiative (JGI) as well as in new student recruitment and community relations in both South Florida and Southern California for the local UVA Clubs.

The conversation will be moderated by Ann Joseph, president of the Global Business and Cultural Club at the Darden School of Business. Before joining Darden, Ann managed a social venture in South India and was an investment banking trade settlement analyst at Goldman Sachs where she worked with clients in Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Ann’s husband, Ryan graduated from Darden in 2018 and is also a big UVA and Charlottesville fan.

Sponsored by: University Advancement, UVA Global, and International Studies Office

Tuesday, Oct. 27

Careers in International Diplomacy and Public Policy

1:00 – 2:30p

Global Journeys is a series of panels with distinguished UVA alumni and current students. In each panel, the guests will share their global experiences and career paths. Students will hear firsthand about various industries, how to prepare for them, and how they can make the most of their UVA experience.

In the Careers in International Diplomacy and Public Policy panel, UVA alumni panelists will share insights about how the experiences they pursued at UVA prepared them for careers in the international public policy sphere and the U.S. Department of State. These alumni panelists are eager to encourage UVA students to pursue their interests in international public policy and foreign service careers. Two panelists are working in public policy in the UK and Chile, respectively. Three of our panelists have had careers in the U.S. foreign service working around the world. Of these three, one is also a Marine reservist and two are classmates who didn’t know each other at UVA but connected while serving the U.S. Department of State abroad.

The panelists are:

Catalina Cecchi (CLAS ‘09, GSAS ’10): Catalina has more than 10 years of professional experience, Master in Sustainable Development Economics (Ecole Polytechnique of Paris) and a double major in Anthropology and Environmental Sciences at UVA. She recently worked in the teams of the UN Climate Conference (COP25) Presidency and the Climate Champions, managing climate action contents and raising ambition of various stakeholder groups, supporting discussion on the use of Article 6 in Chile and promoting the country's green hydrogen strategy. She has managed a range of portfolios in the energy industry including the Energy Commune Program at the Ministry of Energy of Chile, BHP (mining), and Deloitte in France.

H. Alexander Henegar (CLAS ’97): Alex was commissioned as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State in 2005. He has advanced U.S. political and economic interests on assignments in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, the Dominican Republic, and Croatia, where he currently serves as Chief of Political and Economic Affairs at U.S. Embassy Zagreb. In Washington D.C., he focused on conflict issues in the Middle East and North Africa and was a Senior Watch Officer in the State Department Operations Center. Alex began his public service as a Marine Corps Officer on active duty, and he remains a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve. He has commanded up to the battalion level and has served in combat and on training and security cooperation missions in the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and throughout Europe. In addition to a B.A. from UVA, Alex has a M.A. from Georgetown University and speaks Croatian, Spanish, Dari, and limited French. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Marine Corps Association Foundation. A native of Tennessee, Alex is married with three daughters.

Jessica Housden (CLAS ‘09, MPP ’10): Jessica is currently Deputy Head of Unit for the Digital Strategy team in the United Kingdom government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, where she has also worked on digital trade and COVID-19 economic response policy. Prior to that, she served in the Department for Exiting the European Union for two and a half years to deliver on the UK’s Brexit referendum to leave the EU. She began her public service career in the Office for Gas and Electricity Markets working on European and renewable energy policy. Jessica is a proud graduate of UVA’s College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the second graduating class of the Batten School. She is a British citizen who attended UVA as an international student and is always delighted to reconnect with the UVA community.

Stephen Thompson (CLAS ’71): During his Foreign Service career of 30 years, Stephen focused primarily on international finance and trade issues at posts in South America and the Middle East. His other assignments included positions in the bureaus of Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) and Economic and Business Affairs (EB) as well as advisor to the Board of the Export – Import Bank of the United States. Following his State Department retirement in 2002, Stephen had a second career in financial services with firms in Washington, D.C. and Phoenix, Arizona. He serves on the Board of Governors of the DACOR Bacon House Foundation, an international affairs organization in Washington, D.C. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also has degrees in economics and finance from Stanford University, and Georgetown University.

Amb. Ashley Wills (CLAS ’71): Raised in Mississippi and Georgia, Ashley matriculated at UVa in 1967. He graduated in 1971 with a major in Government and Foreign Affairs, and joined the Foreign Service in 1972. He served successively in Romania, South Africa, Iran, Barbados, Yugoslavia, Belgium, India and Sri Lanka. In his last two posts, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi and Ambassador in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. His Washington assignments included an academic year, studying economics at Johns Hopkins, three years as Officer-in-Charge of the South Africa Desk, and three years as Assistant USTR for South and Central Asia. He retired from State in 2006 and worked for several years for an international law firm, WilmerHale, and then as a business consultant. He was married for 46 years to Gina, a Sweet Briar grad, who passed away in 2019. They have two children, Zachary and Olivia.

This panel will be moderated by Ankita Satpathy (CLAS ’19), a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. She graduated from the University of Virginia's Politics Honors program in 2019 with a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Government. She then completed an. M.A. in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she was a Schwarzman Scholar focused on U.S.-China relations. Ankita has interned with the U.S. Department of State, the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and IDInsight, a global development organization.

Sponsored by: University Advancement, UVA Global, and International Studies Office

Wednesday, October 28

Careers after Education Abroad

1:00-2:00pm

The Careers after Study Abroad panel will feature UVA alumni panelists working in a variety of business and legal fields. Each of them studied abroad in UVA’s Valencia, Spain study abroad program. They will share insights about how the Valencia program and other experiences they pursued at UVA prepared them for careers and lifelong international interests. These alumni panelists are eager to encourage students with global interests to find ways to chart their career paths and can offer their own experience and advice.

The panelists are:

Stewart Brown (CLAS ’95): Stewart is Senior Vice President of Operations for Dart Interests, the US real estate investment arm of an offshore family office. Previously, he was responsible for growing and running the asset management business line in the Caribbean and Latin America for JLL’s Hotels and Hospitality Group. His early career included positions abroad in investment banking, internal audit and hotel management. Stewart holds a Master of International Business from the University of South Carolina and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Rudene Mercer Haynes (CLAS ’97): Rudene’s fascination with numbers and problem solving has led her to a fulfilling career in structured finance and securitization. For most of her practice, she has focused on residential mortgage financing and has acted on behalf of issuers, lenders, servicers and underwriters/placement agents of a myriad of financial assets, including mortgage-related assets, trade receivables and other payment intangibles. On a personal note, Rudene is exceptionally committed to increasing diversity in the legal profession. She is very active in bar, civic and community initiatives that advance equity in our society. She earned a JD from The University of Texas School of Law in 1999 and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Virginia, with distinction, in 1996.

Kevin Moure (CLAS ’88): During his university years at UVA, Kevin was involved as an RA and Program Coordinator in the First-Year dorms and studied abroad in a summer session in Valencia, Spain. He graduated in 1988 with a BA in Political and Social Thought, with honors. After school, he worked as a management consultant, including three years in Madrid, and then returned to the States to earn an MA in International Studies and a Masters in Business Administration. Since then he has held various senior management positions with multinational firms and entrepreneurial start-ups in strategic planning, finance, acquisitions, franchising, real estate development, operations, training, and systems development. Kevin has done business in over 30 countries and has lived in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Hong Kong, and most recently Mexico City, where he is the CEO of a financial services company. Kevin and his spouse Roy, a Singapore native, have four children and currently reside in south Florida.

The panel will be moderated by Liz Wellbeloved (CLAS ’88), Senior Education Abroad Advisor and Program Manager for UVA in Valencia, Spain & Portugal, Latin America & the Caribbean. Liz serves as the Assistant Director of the UVA in Valencia program since May 2000. She is also an alum of the Valencia program, having spent her third year there from 1985-86.

Sponsored by: University Advancement, UVA Global, and International Studies Office

Thursday, October 29

Global Experiences on Grounds

7:00-8:00pm,

The Global Experiences on Grounds panel includes UVA alumni and a current student talking about the various opportunities available to engage with Global on Grounds. We will hear from an alumnus who is a Senior Research Assistant at Duke and coordinates the Center’s work on value-based care delivery and payment reform efforts in global health, an alumnus who served as a conversation partner for visiting Chinese students and now teaches English in China, and a current student who participates in ISO's Global Greeters program, serves as an international student representative on the Student Council Representative Body, and is a facilitator within the Multicultural Student Services' Asian Pacific American Leadership Training Institute (APALTI).

The panelists are:

Mohamed Ihsan (CLAS ’19): During his time at UVA, Mohamed worked as a Trueland Conversation Partner. This, along with his involvement in cross-cultural events and dialogues at Hereford Residential College, inspired his drive to be more globally-minded and globally-involved. He graduated in 2019 with a degree in Interdisciplinary Computer Science. Since Mohamed’s graduation from UVA, he has been teaching English at a college in Hunan, China, an experience which has further allowed him to fulfill this drive and immerse himself in cross-cultural and global exchange.

Adrian Mamaril (CLAS ’23): Adrian is a second-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, currently majoring in Foreign Affairs. He moved here from Manila, Philippines and is hoping to work in the field of international development and development economics after his graduation. He is currently taking Chinese and is hoping to study or work abroad in China, Taiwan, or Singapore. He is involved in the ISO's Global Greeters program, serves as an international student representative on the Student Council Representative Body, and is a facilitator within the Multicultural Student Services' Asian Pacific American Leadership Training Institute (APALTI). He is also a member of the Organization of Young Filipino Americans (OYFA), the Filipino organization on Grounds.

Yolande Pokam Tchuisseu (CLAS ’17): Yolande is a Senior Research Assistant at Duke University’s Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy where she coordinates the Center’s work on value-based care delivery and payment reform efforts in global health. She earned her MSc in Global Health from Duke University in 2019 and a B.A. in Cognitive Science with concentrations in Neuroscience & Linguistics from UVA in 2017. During her time at UVA, Yolande lived at the International Residential College (IRC) for four consecutive years, worked as a Program Assistant at the Lorna Sundberg International Center, volunteered with VISAS and the Global Greeters Program, and engaged in various global health projects in St. Kitts and Nevis, Nicaragua and Uganda. Yolande was also the recipient of the UVA Class of 2017 Cultural Fluency Award. Yolande has also spent a semester at Duke Kunshan University as an exchange student and completed her graduate fieldwork research in Brazil.

The panel will be moderated by Quynh Nguyen (CLAS ’10), International Student and Scholar Services Coordinator. In her role, she oversees cultural programs at the Lorna Sundberg International Center, the Global Greeters program and works closely with several units to support international students and scholars.

Sponsored by: University Advancement, UVA Global, and International Studies Office

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

American Academy of Diplomacy Annual Conference

10am-1:30pm

Interested in a deep dive into U.S. diplomacy in Europe? If so, attend the American Academy of Diplomacy's annual conference which will focus on the topic, "Does Europe still matter to America?" This event is virtual and free of charge.

Sponsored by: American Academy of Diplomacy, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, UVA Center for Politics

Evening of Music and Poetry

5-6pm

Join the International Center for a virtual evening of music and poetry from different parts of the world. Indigenous songs, poems and performances will be presented virtually by various student groups including the South Asian Medical Students Association, Bangladeshi Student Association and others.

We will explore the different genres of music and styles of poetry writing, with a discussion of their influences and impacts on other art forms.

Sponsored by: Lorna Sundberg International Center

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26

Darden Art Project Virtual Photo Reveal

DART 2020 photos have been revealed! Click here to access the Gallery for photos and a PowerPoint with photographer bios and photo descriptions.

The Darden Art Project (DART) is a joint effort launched by Darden students, staff and faculty and is sponsored by the Darden Center for Global Initiatives. DART is an initiative that highlights the Darden community’s global experiences. We invite Darden students, alumni, faculty and staff to submit photographs of places and people in the United States and around the world. The photographs may be of landscapes, buildings and people (including Darden students, staff, faculty and alumni).

Submitted photographs are reviewed by a selection committee composed of Darden students, staff and faculty. Selected photos will be printed, framed and hung in the Darden Classroom building and in Café 67. After display in the Darden Classroom building and Café 67 for one year, the photographs are sold. Proceeds are donated to a charity chosen by the Graduate Women in Business (GWIB), whose members manage the sale process. DART continues annually with a new set of photographs solicited, hung and sold each winter. Visit the Galleries to view past winning photographs.

Sponsored by: Darden Center for Global Initiatives

Immigration, Asylum, and National Security: A Comparative Perspective

10am

The 2020 Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy explores one of the defining issues of our day, immigration, and how the US and other countries are using agreements with third countries to prevent migrants and asylum-seekers from crossing their borders.

Sponsored by: Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Batten Global Policy Center at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

Global Journeys: Careers in International Business and Law

1-2pm

Global Journeys is a series of panels with distinguished UVA alumni and current students who will share their global experiences and career paths. Students will hear firsthand about various industries, how to prepare for them, and how they can make the most of their UVA experience. See above for bios.

Sponsored by: University Advancement, UVA Global, and International Studies Office

Year of the Nurse & Midwife

2pm

A lecture by School of Nursing Dean Pam Cipriano, as part of the School of Nursing's Global Week 2020 programming.

International Trivia Night

7-8pm

Test your knowledge of the world at our online trivia night during Global Week at UVA. The winner will receive a t-shirt and tote from the International Center! They can be picked up at the Center or mailed domestically.

Missed the event and want to play with your friends? Get our Kahoot trivia game here. The prize is only offered during the live event.

Sponsored by: Lorna Sundberg International Center

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

Global Journeys: Careers in International Diplomacy and Public Policy

1-2:30pm

Sponsored by: University Advancement, UVA Global, and International Studies Office

Crisis at the US/Mexico Border: A New Film and Panel Discussion

5-6pm

With election day less than a month away, we must not forget the ongoing immigration crisis. Join us on October 27th for a virtual event highlighting the inhumane policies in place at the US-Mexico border. We will screen a preview of the film, Oh Mercy, by Worldwide Documentaries that follows asylum-seekers battling unsafe conditions at the border due to policies implemented by the current administration. The preview will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Lucy Bassett, Professor of Practice and co-founder of Project Adelante, and featuring Academy-award nominated director, Robert Bilheimer; Dr. Susan Bissell, the former Chief of Child Protection at UNICEF; Sister Norma Pimentel, a longstanding advocate for migrants along the border honored as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020; and Ned Flanagan, from the Global Development Organization at UVA.

Sponsored by: The Humanitarian Collaborative, UndocUVA, Batten LatinX, Global Development Organization, Global Programs Council, Project Adelante

Teaching Careers Abroad

6pm

Interested in working abroad after graduation? Considering teaching abroad? Attend this panel to hear from experts who have taught outside of the U.S.

Don't miss this great opportunity to meet virtually and network with alumni and representatives who taught abroad working in organizations such as Fulbright, Japanese Exchange and Teaching (JET) program, Peace Corps, and Association of American Schools in South America. This event is part of Global Week at UVA.

The Zoom link for each event will be shared with all registered students.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

Batten Expert Chats: "The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy"

12pm

Refugee and immigration policy has been one of the most pressing policy issues across the developed world, and with the U.S. presidential election on the horizon, it’s also the subject of renewed attention and debate. In honor of Global Week at the University of Virginia, the next installment of Batten Expert Chats will feature David Leblang, director of Batten’s Global Policy Center, and Anne Richard, who served as assistant secretary of state for population, migration, and refugees under President Obama. Leblang and Richard will speak and take questions on our country’s refugee and immigration policies, where we stand today, and where we might be headed after November. Find more information here.

Sponsored by: Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy

Sustained Global Nursing Partnerships: Climate changes & disaster preparedness in Nicaragua

12pm

A discussion led by co-director and associate professor Emma Mitchell, UVA's Nicaraguan partners, and medical Spanish professor Michelet McLean. This event is part of the School of Nursing's Global Week 2020 programming.

Global Journeys: Careers After Education Abroad – Valencia

1-2pm

Sponsored by: University Advancement, UVA Global, and International Studies Office

Peace Corps Drop-in Hours

2-4pm

Virtually drop in to talk to UVA's Peace Corps Recruiter Maria Mahone to learn about the Peace Corps, get help with the application process, fine tune your resume, learn about building relevant experience, and or ask any questions you have about the Peace Corps!

Sponsored by: Peace Corps @ UVA Career Center

Her Excellency Rosemary Banks, Ambassador of New Zealand to the U.S.

4pm

Her Excellency Rosemary Banks, Ambassador of New Zealand to the U.S., will speak virtually on the relationship between New Zealand and the U.S., New Zealand’s response to COVID-19, and other topics with time reserved for Q&A.

Sponsored by: UVA Center for Politics in partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs

Securing a Global Internship

5pm

Interested in doing something meaningful abroad, like an internship or research? Join us for a panel event with current and former students who pursued applied learning experiences in international contexts. Panelists will discuss how they were able to secure positions for themselves and what they learned through their cross-cultural experiences of work. Student panelists will represent a variety of academic backgrounds, professional fields, and modes of international collaboration (both in-person and virtual)! It is never too early or late to consider how a global learning experience can be incorporated into your time at UVA and what value it will hold for your development.

Sponsored by: UVA Career Center and UVA Global Internships/Education Abroad

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

Education Abroad: Sustainable Programs

11am

This virtual event is a collaboration between UVA and William & Mary's Education Abroad Offices. The presenters will highlight education abroad programs with a sustainability focus and share a framework to evaluate programs from a sustainability perspective as students conduct their program research.

Sponsored by: International Studies Office: Education Abroad in partnership with William & Mary's Global Education Office

Taking Your Engineering Education Global: UVA Engineering Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs

5pm

This one-hour event will host UVA Engineering faculty, who lead summer study abroad programs. Each will talk about what their program offers and be available to answer questions. Programs include those in Guatemala, Lithuania/Prague, China, Sweden, Argentina, Greece, and Germany. Some programs are sustainability-focused.

Sponsored by: School of Engineering - Engineering International Programs

Global Journeys: Experiences on Grounds

7-8pm

Sponsored by: University Advancement, UVA Global, and International Studies Office

VISAS Café

8pm

VISAS Cafe is a weekly discussion group for anyone interested in connecting, talking, and sharing stories with UVA students and international participants on Grounds and around the world. VISAS Cafe is sponsored by the Center for American English Language and Culture (CAELC) at UVA.

Sponsored by: VISAS (Volunteers with International Student, Staff, and Scholars), a program of CAELC

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

Global Research: a Two-Part Event

9:30am-12pm

Part 1: 9:30am-10:45am: Addressing Foreign Influence Concerns

First in a series of Scientific Integrity Workshops, this webinar will provide insight on NSF and NIH concerns and ongoing initiatives to prevent undue foreign influence on the research enterprise as well as best practices for researchers to avoid real or apparent compliance issues. Featured speakers will be Michael Lauer, Deputy Director, Extramural Research, NIH, and Rebecca Spyke Keiser, Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy, NSF; following the presentations, the speakers will take questions and engage in a general discussion with attendees.

Part 2: 11am-12pm: UVA Global Research Town Hall

We want to hear from UVA’s research community about the challenges that scholars and students are facing in the global pandemic, and creative solutions they have come up with over the past few months. We will also answer questions from researchers and scholars.

Sponsored by: Vice President for Research and Vice Provost for Global Affairs

Mellon Fellows Seminar: Allison Bigelow, “Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, And Colonial Metallurgy In The Early Modern Iberian World”

10am-12pm

Indigenous and mixed-race miners represent the overwhelming majority of the workforce in colonial Latin America, but the structures of colonial power, violence, and racism eradicated evidence of their intellectual contributions to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century mining and metallurgical sciences. This talk, drawn from Professor Bigelow's new book (April 2020), outlines some of the language-centered methods that historians of science and technology can use to document Indigenous knowledge production, even--and especially--when we do not have the Native-language documents to do so. Find more information here.

Sponsored by: Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures

Study Abroad and Global Research Opportunities for Nursing Students

12pm

A discussion led by associate professor Emma Mitchell and professor Anita Heisterman, Global Initiatives' co-director. This event is part of the School of Nursing's Global Week 2020 programming.

Global Development and Humanitarian Aid Career Series Part 1: Breaking Into the Field Alumni Panel

12:30 PM

Students interested in careers in global development and humanitarianism: this virtual event is for you! Come learn from alumni in the field of global development about career paths, important skills needed in this field, and how to "break in" to a career in global development. There will be multiple opportunities to learn and network virtually with alumni, faculty and fellow students. Don't miss this great opportunity to meet virtually with alumni working in organizations such as USAID, DAI, Millennium Partners, Peace Corps, International Rescue Committee and more! Register now for more information. The zoom link for each event will be shared with all registered students.

Confirmed alumni participating including:

Minahil Amin | Director of Investment | Leadership Now Project (formerly Dahlberg Global Development Advisors)
Mish Batbayar | Business Development Coordinator | IREX and formerly DevTech
Sean Callahan | Program Manager | Abt Associates/USAID-funded Sustaining Health Outcomes Program
Rachel Schmidtke | Advocate for Latin America | Refugees International
Jane Wilkinson| Associate | DAI
Monika Young | Recruitment Coordinator | Creative Associates International
Brooke Ray, Panel Moderator | Operations Manager at the Global Policy Center in the Frank Batten School for Leadership and Public Policy formerly Intentional Rescue Committee

This is part one in a three part series:

Session 1 | Oct 30: Panel - The State of the Field and Getting Your First Opportunity
Session 2 | Nov 6: Small Group Mentoring Conversations with Alumni in the Field
Session 3 | Nov 13: Peace Corps Panel with UVA Alumni

Sponsored by: Global Development Studies, Center for Global Health, Batten Career Services and Global Policy Center, Economics Career Office & The Public Service & Government Career Community in the UVA Career Center

Peace Corps Drop-in Hours

2-4pm

Sponsored by: Peace Corps @ UVA Career Center

Amitav Ghosh: "Future or Past? Climate Change as seen from the Global North & South", and "Indian Ocean Worlds & the Anthropocene"

3-5pm

Future or Past: 3-4pm

In the West, no matter whether in economics, science or indeed, fiction, climate change is almost always imagined in relation to the future. In the global south the imagining of climate change is markedly different. This talk will examine some of the differences between the two perspectives.

Indian Ocean Worlds & the Anthropocene: 4-5pm

As the impact of climate change intensifies, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Indian Ocean region, with its fast-accelerating economies, its innumerable oil and gas producers, its collapsing ecosystems, its vulnerable yet rapidly-increasing populations, and its swiftly-expanding carbon footprint, will be the theatre in which the future of the world will be decided. How will the ongoing changes affect the material and cultural lives of the region’s peoples, who are simultaneously drivers and victims of climate change? Many of the world’s major zones of conflict are already clustered around the Indian Ocean, and the region is also the theater of many accelerating arms races. How will these developments affect the global balance of power? What lessons might past climatic shifts offer for the future? These are some of the issues that will be discussed. This is the first of a multi-day workshop.

Sponsored by: Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures