Over the past century, debates on citizenship and belonging in Iran and Iraq have shaped government practices and popular struggles. Sima Shakhsari and Sinan Antoon address how citizenship has been articulated, rearticulated, and disarticulated within this context and the broader Middle East
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
A message from City of Asylum:
As the days grow darker, Sampsonia Way is getting brighter!
We just finished our fifth “house publication”—the writer houses with artworks on their façades. This House Publication is based on texts and drawings by City of Asylum’s writer-in-residence Tuhin Das. And the bright colors represent the flag of Bangladesh, his home country.
In this virtual lecture hosted by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Patty Gerstenblith, Ph.D., J.D., will discuss the concept of the "universal" museum and its historical underpinnings. Dr. Gerstenblith will explore its origins across the arc of the 19th century, the inequities of the international legal system and its shortcomings, and the continuing justifications for the retention of looted cultural objects by European and North American museums and collectors.