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The Society of Global Scholars (SGS) cordially invites you to the 2nd Annual SGS Conference, Alter-Globalizations: Another World is (Still) Possible. This graduate student-organized conference will be held from Friday, March 2 to Saturday, March 3, 2018 at the Mosher Alumni House.

The Society of Global Scholars (SGS) cordially invites you to the 2^nd Annual SGS Conference, Alter-Globalizations: Another World is (Still) Possible. This graduate student-organized conference will be held from Friday, March 2 to Saturday, March 3, 2018 at the Mosher Alumni House.

This year's conference will serve as a forum for the sharing, discussion, and actualization of alternative globalization possibilities formulated by diverse political perspectives, marginalized communities, and grassroots movements that challenge the false binary between "globalization" and "anti-globalization."

It will bring together scholars from around the world to highlight and discuss:

Indigenous peoples, philosophies, and movements;
Critical political ecologies;
Intersectional coalition- and community-building;
Subversive performativities and dissident spaces;
Heterodox political economies and embodied resistance;
Wide-ranging radical theories and praxes;

and many other interconnected ideas and strategies deployed by the ever-growing global alter-globalization movement of movements.

This conference will feature keynote presentations by renowned activist-scholars Dr. Jackie Smith (author of Social Movements in the World-System) and Dr. William I. Robinson (author of We Will Not Be Silenced), as well as a book fair with tabling by local community organizations, a roundtable on global intersectional solidarity, and a film screening. More information on Dr. Smith's talk can be found here, and more information for Dr. Robinson's talk can accessed here.

The SGS is coordinating with the UCSB American Indigenous & Indigenous Collective, who will be hosting their fifth annual symposium, Cross Currents: Navigating Translation, from Friday, March 2 to Sunday, March 4 at UCSB's Student Resource Building. âThey strongly urge you to support this imperative companion conference, the themes of which resonate with âtheir own on numerous levels. For more information, visit âtheir information page and Facebook event page.

To register, go to here.