Best-selling author and adventurer Bruce Feiler leads an epic journey as he travels with contemporary pilgrims on six historic pilgrimages including Hajj, and explores how these sacred landscapes and revitalized routes are reshaping faith. Materials for educators as well as video clips.
For Grades 8 - 12: The Hajj: Islamic Sacred Pilgrimage
K-16 educators are invited to attend the CERIS spring 2015 book discussion. Dr. Luke Peterson, University of Pittsburgh will facilitate discussion. Registration is required. 5:30 PM dinner (free), 6:00 PM Discussion. Educators can participate in person or via the Internet
What is ISIS and what is the impact of this radical Sunni insurgent group in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria? Can continued US involvement in the region bring sustained peace or will it propel continued inter-sectarian bloodshed?
Three experts will share their opinions along with time for Q&A.
University of Pittsburgh World History Center
East Asia, Eurasia and the World Speaker Series
Presents: Nile Green, Professor of History – UCLA Department of History
Making Mosques in America and Japan, or, How Islam Went Truly Global
Friday, November 21st, 2014
12:00 noon
3703 WW Posvar Hall
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
KEYNOTE LECTURE
PROFESSOR NOAM SHOVAL
"JERUSALEM'S GEOPOLITICAL QUESTION"
Dr. Luke Peterson will discuss his newly published book Palestine-Israel in the Print News Media: Contending Discourses in which he argues for the existence of national perspectives conditioning international events which are constructed, distributed, and reinforced in the print news media. Dr. Peterson will connect his research on representations of Palestine-Israel in recent conflict events with the ongoing news media portrayals of the Islamic State and American intervention in the Middle East throughout the course of the twenty-first century.
Jewish Voice for Peac Pittsburgh, First Unitarian Chuch of Pittsburgh
A discussion with Rabbi Arik Asherman, President, Rabbis for Human Rights, Jerusalem, Dr. Ronald Stone, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and adjunct professor of religion, University of Pittsburgh and Iman Atef Mahgoub, Imam of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh
Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Pittsburgh
Alison Weir will discuss her new book, "Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel" at three events at the University of Pittsburgh (sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine at U Pitt).
Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Pittsburgh
Alison Weir is an American journalist. She is the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization If Americans Knew (IAK) and president of another US-based non-profit, the Council for the National Interest (CNI). Both organizations are concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Alison Weir will discuss her new book, "Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel" at three events at the University of Pittsburgh
