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The Arrighi Center for Global Studies is a transdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of urgent contemporary problems arising from processes of globalization.

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October 6, 2018

“Not in My Neighborhood” screening and panel discussion with the film’s Director

Award-winning director Kurt Orderson and co-producer Najma Nuriddin will participate in a panel discussion and Q&A along with Daniel Pasciuti (Georgia State), Alessandro Angelini (JHU Anthropology) and Ricardo Jacobs (JHU Sociology) following a screening of “Not in Our Neighborhood” (2018).– a documentary directed by Kurt Orderson. The documentary cohesively facilitates an international dialogue on gentrification and spatial apartheid by exploring the parallels among the current urban environments in […]

February 25, 2018

Arrighi Center co-sponsors Greg Asbed and Laura Germino of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers on Tuesday, April 24 at 8 pm

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 […]

May 30, 2017

Arrighi Center Co-Sponsors International Conference on Capitalist Development in Hostile Environments

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 […]