"The few academic centers in the United States focused on combating Islamophobia are under attack by special interest groups and politicians opposed to equality of speech, knowledge production, and rights for Muslims. Experts will discuss the origins and harms arising from the Islamophobia industry's assault on academic freedom." Rutgers University
Berkley Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
This lecture is part of the series Migration, Borderlands, and Social Boundaries in Antiquity. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from September 2024 through May 2025. This lecture focuses on Shifting Boundaries, Moving People? Investigating Change in Archaic Western Anatolia.
Dr. Lisa Bhungalia Assistant Professor, Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Madison, and former UCIS Visiting Professor in Contemporary International Issues will give a book talk. Her book examines the entanglements of aid, law, and war in Palestine with attention to the surveillance and policing regimes produced through the embedding of counterterrorism laws and infrastructures into civilian aid flows.
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
*Note that this event is in PST*
Please join the Middle East Outreach Council for a discussion with Aya Khalil, author of The Great Banned-Book Bake Sale, winner of the 2024 Middle East Outreach Council Book Award for picture books, as well as the Joy for Books Award. Ms. Khalil also wrote The Arabic Quilt, a 2021 Honor Book for Young Children for the Children's Africana Book Awards and winner of a 2021 Arab American Book Award, as well as other books about and for Arab American children.
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, 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, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar, is hosting Dr. Saree Makdisi, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at UCLA, for a talk titled “The Gaza Genocide and the Question of Palestine” on Wednesday, April 23rd at Noon.
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Please note: Pacific Daylight Time
This two-day event brings together scholars, authors, translators, and students from a range of disciplines to explore Kurdish literature as a multilingual, politically resonant, and intellectually vibrant field. With its interdisciplinary focus, the conference will be of particular interest to those working in comparative literature, translation studies, Middle Eastern studies, and beyond.
