In this final installment of Spring 2021 Wednesdays at the Center series, University Paris Dauphine researcher Malcom Ferdinand discussed how Anthropocene is an inadequate response to ecological crises and how environmentalism often obscures the practices of colonized people.

This second UN75 Anniversary Series event welcomed Ms. Joyce Msuya, Deputy Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Assistant Secretary-General, for a dialogue on the highest long-term priorities identified by UNEP’s recently published blueprint report Making Peace with Nature .

Speaking at Duke’s Biddle Lecture on International Studies, Ambassador Nicholas Burns urged the U.S. to restore its diplomatic power on the global stage in service of big ideas.

In a Wednesdays at the Center virtual event, Rasul Miller, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California Irvine, spoke about the lives and legacies of Shaykh Daoud Faisal and Mother Khadijah Faisal, the founders of the Islamic Mission of America, one of New York City’s oldest mosques.