marilyn grell-brisk

May 2024. Local Manifestations of Colonial Continuities: CBI and Dominica. The investment migration industry: for-profit actors in the commodification of citizenship and residence. Research Workshop. University of Essex.

February 2024. Ecology for a social revolution: Re-defining the role of ecologists and their responsibilities toward society. ANDINA Workshop. Conguillío National Park, Chile.

May 2023. Coloniality, Parasitism, and Regimes of Disposability in the Academy: How we come to know what we know and do what we do. UC, Irvine. Black Studies Cluster (Graduate Student Colloquium).

November 2021. Regimes of Disposability, Coloniality and COVID19 on the African Continent. UC, Irvine. Global Forum.

March 2021. Multipolarity and World Order: Semiperipheral Alignment. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series.

November 2020. Global Structures of Inequality and Climate Change. UC, Riverside. Biology Department Senior Seminar.

November 2020. Power and Hierarchy: African Underdevelopment in World Historical Perspective. UC, Riverside. Department of Sociology Colloquium Series.

March 2019. Creolization of Religions in the Diaspora. UC, Riverside. Invited Lecture. Global Studies.

March 2018. African Religions in Haiti and the Diaspora. UC, Riverside. Invited Lecture. Global Studies.

May 2017. La Stagnation du Développement Économique: Une analyse comparative de l’Afrique Subsaharienne dans la système-monde 1965-2015. Université de Neuchâtel. Invited Lecture. Graduate Seminar on Comparative Analysis in Sociology.

August 2016. The Evolving China-Africa Relationship: Eastern Promises, Western Fears. Invited Session at 111^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA.

November 2015. Plus ça change plus c’est pareil? China in Sub-Saharan Africa. UC, Riverside. Department of Sociology Colloquium Series.

International Studies Association (ISA) Conference Presentations

March 2025. Roundtable Panelist: Cities as Global Solutionaries: Rethinking Conceptual and Policy Boundaries. 66th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.

March 2025. Fusion Session Panelist: Universities in the global political & moral economy: Responsibilities of scholars in today’s social and environmental/climate crises. 66th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.

March 2025. Roundtable Panelist: Strategizing to cultivate a community of activist scholars within and beyond ISA: A Participatory Roundtable organized by the IPE’s Outstanding Activist Scholar Award Committee. 66th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.

July 2024. Regular Paper Session. Coloniality, Parasitism, and Regimes of Disposability in the Academy. International Studies Association CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference. Rijeka.

April 2024. Roundtable Panelist: Caring Activist Scholars, Not Extractivist Scholars – What You Didn’t Learn in Graduate School: ISA Activists & Scholars Share What’s Gone Right and Wrong in Their Research with Community and Social Movements … With Audience Participation. 65th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.

March 2022. Roundtable Panelist: A better world in the making locally? Lessons in collaborative, trans-disciplinary efforts for self-determination through food, anti-mining, environmental and other struggles against corporate globalization.63^rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Virtual.

March 2022. Roundtable Panel Chair: Earth Defenders and Pathways away from Extractivism toward Buen Vivir: Global and Local Struggles toward Ecosystem-based Laws and Policies. 63^rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Virtual.

March 2022. Regular Paper Session. Outer edges, logical boundaries and other unresolved issues in the spatio-temporal bounding of whole systemic interpolity systems. 63^rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.

April 2021. Discussant. Ethnicity Beyond State Borders in Africa.62^nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Virtual.

April 2021. Roundtable Panelist: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacies. 62^nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Virtual.

April 2021. Roundtable Panel Chair: Undoing Extractivist Globalization to Build a New International Order Focused on Buen Vivir: Theory and Case-Studies on the Interplay Among Nature Defenders, Social Movements, Governments, and Corporations in Local, National, and International Contexts. 62^nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Virtual.

April 2021. Roundtable Panelist: Local and global reactions to covid: the dialectics of contending efforts by LIO defenders, populist nationalists, and localization proponents to interpret the environmental, social, and economic lessons of covid to their advantage. 62^nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Virtual.

March 2019. Regular Paper Session. Grappling with the concept of nationalism from a sociological/world-systems perspective. 60^th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Toronto.

July 2018. Regular Paper Session. Global Systemic Crisis and Semiperipheral Countries. FLACSO-ISA Joint International Conference – Power Reconfigurations: Regional and Global Responses in an Age of Uncertainty. Quito, Ecuador.

April 2018. Round Table Panelist: Is ‘Environmentalism’ Failing The Global South? Assessing the Rise of Buen-Vivir Environmentalism versus Neoliberal-Extractive Environmentalism. 59^th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA.

February 2017. Regular Paper Session. Exploring Global Governance and State Formation Through Sea Piracy. 58^th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Baltimore, MD.

August 2025. Telling Stories, Developing Theory: How we come to know what we know. New Directions in Critical Theory: Racial Capitalism, Du Boisian Sociology, and Decolonial Perspectives, Paper Session. 120^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL.

August 2021. Coloniality, Regimes of Disposability and COVID19 on the African Continent. Political Economy of the World System, Regular Session. 116^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Virtual Meeting.

August 2019. Small Island Developing States and Climate Change: The Case of Dominica. Environmental Sociology, Regular Session. 114^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, NY.

August 2018. Racism and the Evolution of Distant Othering (with Christopher Chase-Dunn and Eugene N. Anderson). Special Session. 113^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA.

August 2018. Eluding National Boundaries: Commodified Citizenship and the Transnational Capitalist Class. Sociology of Development, Regular Session. 113^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA.

August 2018. Global Governance and State Formation.  Peace and Conflict, Regular Session. 113^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA.

August 2017. Arrested Development? Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World Economy: 1965 to 2015. Political Economy of the World System, Roundtable paper. 112^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montréal, Québec, Canada.

August 2016. The Evolving China-Africa Relationship: Eastern Promises, Western Fears. Invited Session. 111^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA.

August 2016. China and Global Economic Stratification in an Interdependent World. Sociology of Development, Regular Session. 111^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA.

August 2016. Movements in the Periphery/Semi-periphery: An Exploration of China’s Influence on Stratification in the World Economy. Political Economy of the World System, Roundtable paper. 111^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA.

August 2015. China in the Global South: Something New or Borrowed? Political Economy of the World System, Regular Session. 110^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL.

May 2024. Commodified Citizenship In The Age of Climate Change/La commodification de la citoyenneté et développement à l’ère du changement climatique. Paper. 49th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference.

May 2024. Coloniality, Parasitism, and Regimes of Disposability in the Academy: How we come to know what we know and do what we do. Paper. 49th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference.

May 2021. Small Island Development in the Age of Global Climate Change. Paper. 46^th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference. Virtual.

November 2019. Contemporary Africa in the World-System. Paper. Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association. Sacramento, CA.

July 2018. Global Systemic Crisis and Semiperipheral Countries. Paper. FLACSO-ISA Joint International Conference – Power Reconfigurations: Regional and Global Responses in an Age of Uncertainty. Quito, Ecuador.

May 2017. Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World Economy. Paper. Development in the Face of Global Inequalities Conference. Barcelona.

March 2017. Historical Migration, Geopolitical Relation, and Accumulation Regimes: Chinese Investments in Philippine and Zambian Mining with Alvin A. Camba. Paper. Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Toronto, ON.

March/April 2016. Foreign Aid and Development: A GWR Approach.Paper.  41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, IL. November 2016.Toward a Multipolar World. High Finance, China and the Global South. Paper. 87^th Pacific Sociological Association. Oakland, CA.

April 2016. Global Economic Stratification: The China Effect and Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper.Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. San Francisco, CA.

March 2016. China in the Capitalist World-Economy: Development of the Global South. Paper. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, MA.

December 2015. Movements in the Stratified World Economy: The China Effect and Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper. PROWEL Workshop on Vulnerability, Deprivation, Poverty and Inequalities. Murten, Switzerland. Workshop.

November 2015. Periphery/Semiperiphery in Motion: An Exploration of China’s Influence on Stratification in the World Economy. Paper. Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association. Sacramento, CA.

October 2014. Examining the Impact of Chinese Foreign Aid and Investment on Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper. Conference on the Evolution of Economic and Social Inequalities in Switzerland and Beyond. Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

October 2014. The Case of China in Sub-Saharan Africa: Redefining Subversion in the Long Twentieth Century to the Twenty-first. The Long Twentieth Century Conference. Paper. Twenty-first. Binghamton, NY.