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Professor Jackie Smith Delivers Hibbert Roberts Lecture

Professor Jackie Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, delivered "The Past, Present, and Future of Global Justice Activism" at Illinois State University's Hibbert R. Roberts Lecture in Public Policy on September 24. The event is sponsored by Illinois State's Department of Politics and Government with support from the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust Fund and was free and open to the public.

Professor Jackie Smith began her talk with a comparison of two perspectives on globalization: the mainstream view and an alternative, more skeptical view of the current direction of globalization. The latter view represents a vision of globalization that is based on cosmopolitan ideas about justice and human rights - this vision is being promoted by the global justice movement. She then traced the origins of this movement, which date back to the 1960s and 1970s, highlighting the key events, trends and developments of the past four decades that have helped shape the contemporary global justice movement, and explaining how they can inform our study and understanding of that movement.

Dr. Smith is the author of Social Movements for Global Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and a forthcoming book, Social Movements for Global Change: Transnational Organizations from Decolonization through the Neoliberal Era (Co-authored with Dawn Wiest, Russell Sage Foundation).

Dept. Chair Ali Riaz, Mrs. Sandy Roberts, Prof. Smith, and Dr. Sam Catanzaro, Executive Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences	Drs. Shawki, Wang, and Parodi Speak to Dr. Smith at Reception	Professor Speaks with Students After Presentation