Past Roundtables

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