Online Event

Educators are invited to participate in the spring 2021 book discussion Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet Of Islam from the Middle Ages To Today by John V. Tolan (Princeton University Press, 2019). The event will take place at 6 PM Eastern Standard Time

Dr. Patrick Hughes (Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh) will lead the discussion.

Historical scholarship on the Black Death, inaugurated in the 1830s by European historians and medical authors, has since developed into one of the most prolific industries serving both the academy and the general public. That body of scholarship—an artifact of nineteenth-century Eurocentric and colonialist historiography—resulted in a virtual consensus, still in force, as to the temporospatial definition of past pandemics, as well as their causes and effects on societies that experienced them.

The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for Latin American Studies is offering a 2-part webinar series "Pandemics and Health Crises in the Middle East and Latin America.

Wednesday, October 28, is "Responses to Modern-Day Health Crises in the Middle East and Latin America" by UA faculty Stefanie Graeter and Laura Goffman. Both take place from 4:30-6:00 pm Arizona Time, which is 7:30-9:00 pm Eastern Time.

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Associate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College, Oxford. From 2011-2013, he was Assistant Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Dominic currently serves on the Editorial Board of Middle Eastern Literatures and, for a decade (2004-2014), he was Assistant Editor for Iranian Studies. He is a former member of both the Board of the International Society for Iranian Studies, and the Governing Council of the British Institute of Persian Studies.

Afshin Marashi is the Farzaneh Family Professor of Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Iranian Studies. He is the author of Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran, which was published by the University of Texas in 2020. His previous work includes Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940 (University of Washington, 2008), and a co-edited volume titled Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity (University of Texas, 2014).

Please register here: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvc-uvqj8oHte1iTfYbpFMNZ4LVYFAV4md
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 2 PM – 3 PM

Register for the webinar: https://bit.ly/iransolidarity

Speakers:
Max Ajl
Nina Farnia
Vida Samiian
Micol Savia

Join the open classrooms of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi (AMED Studies) and Professor Tomomi Kinukawa (Women and Gender Studies) for a historic roundtable conversation with Palestinian feminist, militant, and leader Leila Khaled, followed by Q&A discussion with students, activists, and scholars at 12:30-2:30 pm PST (3:30-5:30 pm New York, and 10:30pm-12:30 am in Palestine and Jordan).

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ycpMqzqcReO3HCQJKShi5g

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh.

Join City of Bridges Foundation, Carlow University and Peace Island Institute for panel discussion on human rights with voices from religious figures, human rights activists and grassroots organizers.

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
ZOOM LINK TO ENTER EVENT: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98477645498

Join the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania for an important conversation on blackness in the Middle East. Panelists will address themes including the greater history of blackness in the region, anti-Black sentiments that persist to this day, the question of identity and race in the region, and more.