This event is part of the Ethics of Resistance in Global Context series organized by Lucia Rafanelli, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. The event is co-sponsored by the GW Political Science department, the Philosophy department, the Leadership, Ethics and Practice Initiative (LEAP), and the Elliott School Research team. 

The speaker, Inés Valdez, is an associate professor of political science at Ohio State University, with her work focusing on critical race, feminist theory, and migration. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina. She has published Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft, and is currently finishing a book titled Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism.