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.
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund are hosting a panel discussion with Aslı Bâli, Professor of Law at Yale Law School and President of MESA, David Cole, Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law and former National Legal Director of ACLU, and Hassan Ahmad, principal of HMA Law Firm and Attorney for Badar Khan Suri, for a talk titled “Freedom of Speech, Trump and Campus Repression: The Case of Badar Khan Suri” on April 14 at 4pm in the HFSC Social Room.
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.
Dr. Richard D. Benson II is Associate Professor of the Black Radical Tradition in Education in the Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy. Benson received his PhD in Educational Policy Studies specializing in History of Education from the University of Illinois in 2010. As a historian of education, Benson specializes in the Black Freedom Movement, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements.
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Join CCAS for an event with scholar and author Salim Tamari, IPS senior fellow and the former director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. Salim Tamari will be discussing his most recent book he co-authored with Issam Nassar and Stephen Sheehi, Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine.
Berkley Institute for South Asia Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Historian Ali Anooshahr on his new book, Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s), that studies the life and thoughts of a sixteenth-century slave in India named Jawhar Aftabachi (d. after 1587), who served as the water-carrier for the Mughal Emperor Humayun (d. 1556), and chronicled his reign in a Persian text.
The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Rethinking Iran Initiative presents a thorough, well-documented online curriculum on the current protests in Iran for high school students: Women, Life, Freedom: Discussing #Mahsaamini and Feminist Movements in the Classroom. The curriculum is free.
