A panel discussion:
Carter Wilson, moderator
Panelists:
Jonathan Allen
Petra Hendrickson
Steven Nystrom
Vonda Burnsting will lecture on ways of creating a just transition in climate change policy. She is the director of Harvard University's Initiative for Responsible Investment. She specializes in innovative ways of using responsible investments to promote progressive climate change policies.
This live, in person lecture will be livestreamed through YouTube and Zoom. It is sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan and presented in cooperation with NMU's Department of Political Science and Public Administration. It is an hour and 15 minutes lecture.
Rick Rossow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, will discuss the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (or Quad Alliance among Australia, India, Japan and the U.S.), with a special focus on India and escalating tensions between the Quad Alliance and China.
Dr. Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center, will discuss the social, economic, political and environmental consequences of demographic and immigration trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Fiona Hill, former senior director, National Security Council and current senior scholar at the Brookings Institute, will discuss Russia and U.S. relations. No doubt she will cover the current tensions over Russia's threat to invade the Ukraine.
Dr. Carter Wilson will share his research on critical theory, critical race theory and constitutional law. He will begin his discussion by illustrating how Justice Anthony Kennedy used critical theory in the same sex marriage decision (Obergefell v Hodges, 2015) and changed the meaning of originalism and textualism. Dr. Wilson will trace the origins of critical race theory back to Charles Sumner, who used this approach in his arguments against the separate but equal principle adjudicated by the Massachusetts Supreme Court (Roberts v City of Boston, 1849). Dr. Wilson will summarize the vision and intent of the authors of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. He will draw parallels between the attack on critical race theory during the 1850s and today and persistent efforts to undermine the intent of these amendments.