International Roundtable
Every October, Macalester hosts the International Roundtable, a community-wide and globally-focused forum exploring critical issues from a variety of perspectives. Macalester invites speakers, academics, practitioners, community members and performers to offer their work and experiences to galvanize student engagement and prompt global thinking through plenary sessions, student-led workshops, and campus-wide activities.
Past Roundtable Themes
1994 Roundtable: The International Community and the Emerging World (Dis) Order
1995 Roundtable: Literature, the Creative Imagination, and Globalization
1996 Roundtable: The Divided Self: Ethnicity, Identity, and Globalization
1997 Roundtable: Nature, People, and Globalization
1998 Roundtable: Globalization and Economic Space
1999 Roundtable: Contending Gods: Religion and the Global Moment
2000 Roundtable: International Feminisms: Divergent Perspectives
2001 Roundtable: The Body: Meditations on Global Health
2002 Roundtable: Prometheus’s Bequest: Technology and Change
2003 Roundtable: Complex Contradictions: African, American, and Middle Eastern Perspectives
2004 Roundtable: America and Global Power: Empire or . . . ?
2005 Roundtable: Quixotic Offspring: The Global Legacy of Don Quixote
2006 Roundtable: The United Nations Organization
2007 Roundtable: Music Imagination
2008 Roundtable: Whither Development? The Struggle for Livelihood in the Time of Globalization
2009 Roundtable: Global Environment
2010 Roundtable: “My Sister’s and Brother’s Keeper? Human Rights in the Era of Globalization
2011 Roundtable: “Children of the World: The Dialectic of Promise and Vulnerability”
2012 Roundtable: Globalization, Food, and Agriculture
2013 Roundtable: Global Health
2014 Roundtable: Migration
2015 Roundtable: Education
2016 Roundtable: Sustainable Cities
2017 Roundtable: Empathy
2018 Roundtable: Race