Jayantha Jayman is a teacher-scholar-practitioner with life experiences in the social democratic and free-market era of Ceylon/Sri Lanka, in the imperial and revolutionary Ethiopia, and also in the pre- and post- Reagan era in the USA, among other places. Being a witness to insurgency, famine and a pogrom, he is fortunate to have survived these and other experiences. He looks forward to sharing them with those who attend this talk. Jayman is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Global Studies Department at SLU.