Feb 2025

24 Feb 2025

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The Palestine Exception: Film Screening & Discussion

Monday, February 24, 2025 - 4:00pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

The Palestine Exception tells the story of the largest anti-war movement since the 1970s as students, faculty and staff demand divestment from companies doing business with Israel and an end to the war in Gaza. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways.

25 Feb 2025

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Righting Wrongs: Reflections on Battling Abusive Governments

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar is hosting Kenneth Roth, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs, for a talk titled “Righting Wrongs: Reflections on Battling Abusive Governments”.

25 Feb 2025

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Righting Wrongs: Reflections on Battling Abusive Governments

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 12:00pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar is hosting Kenneth Roth, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs, for a talk titled “Righting Wrongs: Reflections on Battling Abusive Governments” on February 25th at Noon in the Copley Formal Lounge.

25 Feb 2025

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Just Films: Naila and the Uprising

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Eddy Theater, Pittsburgh
Sponsored By: 
Black Women's Policy Agenda, Chatham Art & Design and the Women's Institute, MomsWork of NCJW, Women and Girls Foundation, Women's Law Project, and YWCA Greater Pittsburgh

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

26 Feb 2025

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The New ‘Contemporary’ Arab Thought

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 12:30pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies invites you to a lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

26 Feb 2025

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From Durban to Dar es Salaam: Black Radicalism, Decolonization and the Racial Capitalism

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm
4130 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored By: 
Center for Arican Studies

Dr. Al-Bulushi is an Assocaite professor and undergraduate Director in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His research engages questions of political geography, racial capitalism, political theory and social movements in Africa.

Contact: 
Center for African Studies

26 Feb 2025

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Memory and Monuments Across the Contemporary Middle East: Empires, Nations, and Environments

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
The George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies and National Council for Geographic Education

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

26 Feb 2025

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Memory and Monuments Across the Contemporary Middle East: Empires, Nations, and Environments

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
The George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies and National Council for Geographic Education

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

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