Gilberto Rosas, associate professor of anthropology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will lead the next International Seminar Series at noon Wednesday, October 3, in the Prairie Room of the Bone Student Center. Rosas will present “Making Dead to Let Live: On Drug War Refugees and Late Liberal Exhaustions.” The event is free and open to the public.

The International Seminar Series offers the Illinois State campus and Bloomington-Normal communities weekly opportunities to learn about a wide range of international topics. Guest speakers are usually experts in their fields across a range of disciplines who cover a wide array of cultural, historical, political, and social topics.

International Seminar Series events are free and open to the public, and occur every Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. in the Bone Student Center. The fall 2018 series will focus on immigration. For a full schedule, see the Office of International Studies website.