Global Lecture Series and Speakers

Award-winning author, environmentalist and climate advocate Amitav Ghosh explored the opium trade’s rich and complex history that intertwines with globalism in “The Poppy Flower and the Butterfly Effect: History of the Opium Trade and Contemporary Globalism.” Craig Carson, PhD, associate dean for Academic Affairs for Adelphi University’s Honors College delved into this fascinating topic further in a talk with Ghosh.

In 2024, the Bhisé Center for Global Understanding sponsored the Scholarship and Creative Works Conference keynote, Facts vs. News: Navigating Truth in Today’s Media: A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Nicholas Kristof and a panel discussion in which sharing grant-funded research on the impact of colonialism on our past, present and future.

Students who traveled to India with the Bhisé Global Learning Experience also presented their research conducted as part of the trip.

Adelphi student Anna Varveris presented their research “How India Became Binary: Hijras in Text and Images from Colonial to Contemporary Society” at our annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference.

The untold history of colonialism in Kenya was the subject of the inaugural lecture of the Bhisé Center for Global Understanding’s Global Lecture Series. “A Global Reckoning: Colonialism and the Quest for Justice,” featured Caroline Elkins, PhD, a Harvard University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Joanne Corbin, PhD, dean of the School of Social Work, moderated the talk.