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  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
  • Environment
  • Agriculture & Food Systems

Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series
 

About the speaker

Fonna Forman is Professor of Political Theory at UC San Diego and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego, focused on community-based solutions to poverty and environmental crisis. The Center recently built Santuario Frontera, the largest migrant shelter in the US-Mexico border region, located at the western periphery of Tijuana.

Forman regularly serves on local and international advisory bodies on human rights, climate justice and climate migration. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the UC Global Climate Leadership Council, advising the University of California Office of the President on climate and sustainability policy, research and education, and leads climate education initiatives across the 10-campus system. From 2013-2017, she served on the Global Citizenship Commission, advising United Nations policy on human rights in the 21st century.

Forman and Cruz recently published: Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks (MIT Press 2022); and Socializing Architecture: Top-Down / Bottom-Up (MIT Press 2023). Unwalling Citizenship: The Political Equator is forthcoming with Verso. Their work has has been profiled widely in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the LA Times, Bloomberg, CNN International, among others; and has been exhibited in cultural venues across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco); the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum (New York); Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin); and the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

About the seminar series

The Harry ’51 & Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series showcases innovative approaches to development with experts from around the globe. Each year, the series attracts online registrants from over 45 countries and more than 350 organizations. 

Seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:20-1:10 p.m. eastern time during the semester in 101 Bradfield Hall. Students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend in-person or via Zoom.

The series is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Development, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, and the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management as part of courses GDEV 4961, AEM 4961, NTRES 4961, GDEV 6960, AEM 6960, and NTRES 6960.
 

Date & Time

April 30, 2025
12:20 pm - 1:10 pm

Fonna Forman headshot

More information about this event.

Contact Information

Mariah Doyle-Stephenson

  • md2237 [at] cornell.edu

Speaker

Fonna Forman, Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego

Departments

Department of Global Development

Natural Resources and the Environment

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

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