Humanities Scholars Program, The Humanities Center, Carnegie Melon Sustainability Initiative, Carnegie Melon Languages Cultures and Applied Linguistics, Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic, The center for the Arts and Society
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Join us to view The Day I Lost My Shadow, engage in an in-person discussion with Soudade Kaadan, and enjoy delicious desserts catered by our friends at local Syrian restaurant Ali Baba. This event will be moderated by ASAR fellow Reem Al-Ghazzi.
Cost:
$35 members; $50 non-members; $15 students*
Description:
Ten centuries of Islamic art meet the shimmering melodies of traditional Persian and Turkish music in this collaborative event inspired by our special exhibition, Treasured Ornament.
Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic at Carnegie Mellon University Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Department of Religious Studies Jewish Studies Program European Studies Center University Center for International Studies
Kinloch Commons for Critical Pedagogy and Leadership, Center for Urban Education
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Series Description:
We invite you to join us for Palestine & Pedagogy, a series of three virtual workshops presented by the Kinloch Commons for Critical Pedagogy and Leadership and co-sponsored by the Center for Urban Education.
School of Education’s Kinloch Commons for Critical Pedagogy & Leadership and Center for Urban Education
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Basel Al-Araj’s “Live Like a Porcupine, Fight Like a Flea” will guide a workshop on what we might learn from the long history of the encampment and its liberatory struggle through practices of self-determined study. The seminar will consider how to apply these traditions to classrooms.
To register and get a pre-reading, email Sabina Vaught at svaught@pitt.edu.
Join the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies for an event on the book, Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters by Helena Cobban and Rami Khouri.
Across Western mainstream discourse, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has been subjected to intense vilification. Branding it as “terrorist” or worse, this demonization intensified after the events in Southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, Georgetown University Qatar, and the Institute for the Study of International Migration
The One State Reality argues that a one state reality already predominates in the territories controlled by the state of Israel. The One State Reality forces a reconsideration of foundational concepts such as state, sovereignty, and nation, encourages different readings of history, and provides context for confronting uncomfortable questions such as whether Israel/Palestine is an "apartheid state."
