International Islamophobia Studies and Research Association
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
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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.
Far too often, the Middle East appears as doubly alien: out of place and out of time. A century of popular culture caricatures, at least two centuries of Orientalist representations, and decades of American military interventions, have all fed into the notion of the Middle East as a turmoil-laden, sectarian, and tribal premodern region. In this course, we will go beyond these stereotypes to look at the historical forces that shaped the region across the twentieth century to understand the complexities of its peoples and societies.
The National Center for Humanities, Medieval Academy of America
The National Center for Humanities has several online courses for educators.
In the current political and cultural moment, the Medieval Academy of America is working to redress the historical limitations of Medieval Studies and expand its focus to the “Global Middle Ages.”
6. The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University,
The 2021 Summer Institute will engage with current scholarship that spans 1400 years of cultural histories connecting the Arabic-speaking and Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. These eras range from the Arab-Umayyad era in the 7th century, through the Hispano-Arabic period, encompassing the Golden Age of Spain and Iberia, and continuing to contemporary Latin America. Scholars in literature, language, theater, the arts, and other fields in the humanities have looked at particular aspects of this interwoven, centuries-long, transcultural tradition.
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Join the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University for a conversation with Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch moderated by CCAS professor Dr. Fida Adely.
Shakir will discuss the recent HRW report he was the lead author on, "A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution."
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Iraq and Georgetown University announce the upcoming launch of a new website showcasing Access to Durable Solutions Among IDPs in Iraq, a joint panel study tracking the same IDP households over five years to assess their access to durable solutions according to the IASC Framework.
