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Pine Crest Upper School Instructor Invited to Lecture at University of Miami
February 22nd 2021
Pine Crest Upper School Social Science instructor Mr. Tyler Miller was recently invited to hold a lecture for SPA 310: Global Media: Reading Across Borders, an undergraduate course in Digital Humanities and Latin American Studies at the University of Miami.
With his current role as an AP and Honors World History instructor and his love of geography and anthropology, Mr. Miller applied his perspective and expertise to teach students about globalization and its lineage within the context of Latin America.
The presentation was titled, Globalization and Its Crooked Lineages.
“My talk examined the intellectual lineage and major debates around "globalization" as a scholarly concept and the term's utility for better understanding interconnections of capital, peoples, goods, media, and ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries,” said Mr. Miller.
“Global interconnectedness is a fact of life.” Mr. Miller went on to explore why the concept of globalization is so critical to growth and how global interconnection can advance markets and industries. Still, especially in regions like portions of Latin America and Africa, globalization can deepen social and economic inequalities when "development" is not tempered with attention to those communities whose way of life has been upended by globalizing forces. The questions raised by globalization as a concept must be attuned to regional, economic, and historical disparities of power.
The 45-minute lecture, presented via Zoom to a class of undergraduate students, ended with a question and answer session. Students asked thought-provoking questions and drew correlations about the lineage of globalization and the current global economies and international commodities markets which were affected by the pandemic.
“The experience was great,” said Mr. Miller. “I enjoyed the dialogue that followed the presentation and the students’ natural curiosity.”
