]1 Last weekend Macalester hosted the 23rd International Roundtable on urban sustainability. The plenary speakers (from left to right: Chris Ward ’76, Seitu Kenneth Jones, Sarah Dooling, Julian Agyeman) and student Isabella Soparkar ’18 discussed strategies for individual and collective actions to create more sustainable cities last Friday. Photo by Maddie Jaffe ’17.
In this year’s installment of Macalester’s International Roundtable, sustainability stood front and center. Through this event, plenary speakers, panelists and student discussion leaders explored the meaning of “sustainability” and its connotations. On Friday, September 30, students Isaac Gamoran ’18 and Hannah Mira Friedland ’17 invited Minnesota artists to discuss a type of sustainability that is…
This year, the Roundtable features a long-term photography installation, 17 student-led workshops and five plenary speakers who work around the theme of educational disparities on the local, national and international levels.
I attended my first International Roundtable this year, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. My International Studies professor raved about the event, saying that the the theme of migration was sure to make for a riveting group of discussions. I was required by my class to go to at least four events, but I’d…
Update: 4:41 PM ; 10/10/14 Provost Kathy Murray announced this afternoon that the administration will not attempt to relocate the mock border wall from Old Main Lawn, after a group of students relocated it from the courtyard behind Janet Wallace earlier this morning. Students have maintained a physical presence at the wall all day, distributing…
On Wednesday night, a group of over 40 students congregated in the courtyard of the Theatre Building for an open forum regarding the courtyard’s newest installation: a mock border chainlink fence that had originally been slated to bisect Old Main Lawn during this week’s migration-focused International Roundtable. However, in a last-minute decision, Macalester’s administration opted…
On a hot afternoon last February, I found myself lugging several gallons of water across an isolated ridge in the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness, southwest of Tucson, Arizona. When my companions and I arrived at our destination – an unexpectedly shady tree with some empty plastic jugs and discarded bean cans – we met four men…
Macalester will host its annual International Roundtable next weekend. The Roundtable is a community-wide and globally-focused forum exploring critical issues from a variety of perspectives. This year’s Roundtable will focus on Human Migration, and it boasts growing student involvement. Migration is a dynamic and powerful social force shaping societies, past and present. Geography professor Holly…
A few weeks ago I decided last-minute to attend Farah Haddad’s talk about the Syria conflict. It meant cancelling lunch plans and skipping my daily run along the Mississippi even though I never “tuned in” to the politics of the Middle East.
