Harvard University's Davis Center For Russian and Eurasian Studies
Fyodor Lukyanov, one of Russia’s leading analysts of foreign affairs, believes the messy American withdrawal from Afghanistan indicates that the United States intends to focus more narrowly—and more strategically—on national interests worth defending. Join us for a conversation between Lukyanov and Alexandra Vacroux to hear how the Russians are interpreting the U.S. exit from Kabul and the opportunities it may create for Russia. Is the American withdrawal good for Russia? Could more contained American foreign policy goals allow for better U.S.-Russia bilateral relations?
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University
Pope Francis inspires global leadership and readily encourages bonds of friendship with other leaders like him. In early 2019, he and Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayyeb (signing for a committee of Sunni religious leaders) issued a “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together.”
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University
The twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks prompted sustained reflection on the relationship between religion and violence, the place of religion and society, and the connections between memory, reconciliation, and peace. The Berkley Center has been grappling with these questions since its founding in 2006.
International Islamophobia Studies and Research Association
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
NOTE THE TIME IS Pacific Standard Time
Featured speakers:
Salman Sayyid, University of Leeds
Munir Jawa Graduate Theological Union
Jasmin Zine Wilfrid Lourier University
Rabab Adelhadi San Francisco State
Farid Hafez University of Saltsburg
Hatem Bazian, University of California Berkeley
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS: submission of proposals October 15, 2021. Notifications of acceptances November 15, 2021, Submission of Full Papers: Feburary 15, 2022
March 23 - 25, 2022
CERIS,African Studies Center and the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and Chatham University
Participate in person in the Conover Room (Basement Floor of the) Mellon Administrative Building on the Chatham University Campus, Woodland Road, Pittsburgh PA 15232-2899, or online.
Facilitated by Dr. Jean-Jacque Ngor Sène, Associate Professor of History and Cultural Studies, Chatham University
Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Presents: Ayad Akhtar
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced, comes Homeland Elegies blending fact and fiction to tell the story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made—of an immigrant father, an American son, and the country they both call home.
