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UFV students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to attend a guest speaker event on Feb. 25, 2026, in B101, from 2:30-4 pm. Dr. Ajay Parasram, an associate professor in International Development Studies and History from Dalhousie University (unceded Kjipuktuk), will be speaking on pluriversal sovereignty, imperial political economy, and decolonial development. Ajay is a transnational, multigenerational byproduct of the British empire, with roots in South Asia, the southern Caribbean, and across Turtle Island. He is the author of the award-winning 2023 book, Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka<\/em>. On Feb. 25, Ajay will speak about his current work, which includes an alternative radical reframing of \u201cdevelopment studies.\u201d<\/p>\n Wed, Feb 25 Abby B101<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more information, contact GEETANJALI GILL at geetanjali.gill@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 02\/25\/2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UFV students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to attend a guest speaker event on Feb. 25, 2026, in B101, from 2:30-4 pm. Dr. Ajay Parasram, an associate professor in International Development Studies and History from Dalhousie University (unceded Kjipuktuk), will be speaking on pluriversal sovereignty, imperial political economy, and decolonial development. Ajay is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":36951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-myufv","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36955,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950\/revisions\/36955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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