Smith To Deliver Hibbert R. Roberts Lecture Sept. 24

Jackie Smith, associate professor of sociology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver Illinois State University's 2009 Hibbert R. Roberts Lecture in Public Policy at 7p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, in the Bone Student Center Old Main Room.  Smith will speak on "Past, Present, and Futures of Transnational Global Justice Activism."  The event is free and open to the public.

Smith's research examines how global economic and political changes affect transnational organization and politics. She 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). She co-authored The World Social Forums and the Challenge of Global Democracy (Paradigm Publishers, 2008), and has co-edited three books and more than 30 articles on transnational activism, including Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest in a Neoliberal Era (with Joe Bandy), which explores transnational alliances among people of widely varying cultural, political, and economic backgrounds.

The Hibbert R. Roberts lecture, established in memory of the late department chair, brings leading academics and activists to speak about their work.  The event is sponsored by Illinois State's Department of Politics and Government with support from the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust Fund.