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Speakers: Lilian Ghandour, Peter Walton
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*Promoted by University of Pittsburgh* Speakers: Liora Halperin |
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*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh* Speakers: Carl Ernst, Michael Muhammad Description: Frank Herbert’s Dune is inspired by themes from the history of Islam that are both direct and subtle. Carl Ernst and Michael Muhammad Knight will discuss the new film and the book it is based on and explore how Islam is part of its foundation. The live free webinar is a fundraiser to benefit the Peck Fund for Teaching Excellence, which is devoted to supporting and recognizing teaching among graduate students in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC, Chapel Hill. |
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*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh* Speaker: Golnoosh Hakimdavar, Homeira Qaderi, Nadia Sakhi, Sahar Fetrat |
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Speaker: H.E. Tone Kajzer, H.E. Bojan Vujić |
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*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh* Topics will include Afro-futurism, Black Lives Matter, Pan-Africanism, ancient, medieval, and colonial history, cultural studies, films, and literature, environment and justice, and Covid-19 in African. Access to all other African Studies Association 2020 panels on November 19-21 is included. A certificate of attendance will be provided upon request. The optional evening session will be a showing of the documentary of BlacknBlack. |
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Join Pitt’s World History Center on Wednesday November 3 at 12:00 pm for a virtual roundtable about peripheral, contested, and extractive geographies in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Empire, moderated by University of Pittsburgh professor Gregor Thum. The roundtable features: Ana Fumurescu (Graduate Student Fellow, World History Center), Ari Şekeryan (Research Affiliate, World History Center) and Ana Sekulić, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) Postdoctoral Fellow. |
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*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh* This title will be available starting October 27 on our virtual platform. Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy’s desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a rigid bureaucracy. |
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*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh* The speaker of the week will be Dr. Hatem Bazian, Director of Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project, University of California, Berkeley, also the author of “Palestine,” on Wednesday, Oct 27, at 08:00PM (Turkey Time; UTC+03:00). His talk is titled "An Assessment and the Challenges in the Islamophobia Studies Field." |
