The Graduate School of Education will present its annual Johnstone Distinguished Lecture Series at 4 p.m. March 7 in 106 O’Brian Hall, North Campus.

The speaker will be Fazal Rizvi, emeritus professor of global studies in education at the University of Melbourne and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His talk, “Imperatives of International Research in Negotiating Local Issues in Higher Education,” is free and open to all.

Rizvi has written extensively on issues of identity and culture in transnational contexts, globalization and education policy, internationalization of higher education and Australia-Asia relations. A sequel to his widely acclaimed book, “Globalizing Education Policy” (Routledge 2010), was recently published under the title “Reimagining Globalization and Education” (Routledge 2022).

Rizvi serves as editor-in-chief of the fourth edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education (Elsevier 2022) and is currently conducting research on educational reform in Bhutan. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences, a former editor of the journal Discourse: Studies in Cultural Politics of Education, and a former president of the Australian Association of Research in Education.

The Johnstone Distinguished Lecture Series was established with the support of former SUNY Chancellor D. Bruce Johnstone, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Higher and Comparative Education, and his late wife, Gail E. Johnstone.