Every October, Macalester hosts the International Roundtable, a community-wide and globally-focused forum exploring critical issues from a variety of perspectives.
Previous Roundtables have featured:
- 2021 Student Protests: Unsettling Power Relationships and Cultivating Radical Hope
- 2020 Facing Pandemic of Disease and Race: Radically Rethinking For Liberatory Futures
- 2019 Incarceration (Un)Interrupted: Reclaiming Bodies, Lands, and Communities
- 2018 Beyond Blood and Skin: The Global Production and Consequences of Race and Racisms
- 2017 Empathy and Its Discontents
- 2016 Sustainable Cities
- 2015 Educational Disparities
- 2014 Migration
- 2013 Global Health
- 2012 Feeding the World: Globalization, Food, and Agriculture in the 21st Century.
- 2011 Children of the World: The Dialectic of Promise and Vulnerability
- 2010 My Sister’s and Brother’s Keeper?: Human Rights In The Era Of Globalization
- 2009 Global Environment: The Eleventh Hour?
- 2008 Whither Development? The Struggle for Livelihood in the Time of Globalization
- 2007 The Musical Imagination in the Epoch of Globalization
- 2006 The United Nations Organization (UNO): What Future?
- 2005 Quixotic Offspring: The Global Legacy of Don Quixote
- 2004 America and Global Power: Empire or . . . ?
- 2003 Complex Contradictions: African, American, and Middle Eastern Perspectives
- 2002 Prometheus’s Bequest: Technology and Change
- 2001 The Body: Meditations on Global Health
- 2000 International Feminisms: Divergent Perspectives
- 1999 Contending Gods: Religion and the Global Moment
- 1998 Globalization and Economic Space
- 1997 Nature, People, and Globalization
- 1996 The Divided Self: Ethnicity, Identity, and Globalization
- 1995 Literature, the Creative Imagination, and Globalization
- 1994 The International Community and the Emerging World (Dis) Order