The student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium, the Arrighi Center for Global Studies, and the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association present human rights advocates Greg Asbed and Laura Germino, who co-founded in 1993 the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a human rights organization to eliminate injustice—including forced labor, sexual assault, and wage theft—in Florida’s tomato industry. In October, Asbed was one 24 individuals to be […]

This conference marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Giovanni Arrighi and Fortunata Piselli’s “Capitalist Development in Hostile Environments: Feuds, Class Struggles and Migrations in a Peripheral Region of Southern Italy.” The conference is held at the University of Calabria from June 6 to 8 2017. More information about the conference can be found […]

On April 27th, David Harvey gave the Arrighi Center for Global Studies Spring 2017 Distinguished Lecture, the inaugural event in the series. His talk, “Visualizing Capital,” was attended by hundreds of students, faculty, and community members. After the event, attendees mingled with Harvey in a reception in Hodson Hall. Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology […]