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
Speaker: Carter Malkasian
Description: Dr. Carter Malkasian was the Special Assistant for Strategy to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford from 2015 to 2019. He has extensive experience working in conflict zones. He spent nearly two years in Garmser district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, as a State Department political officer. His 2013 book, “War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier” (Oxford UP), won the 2014 silver medal for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Book Award.
Date: Thursday, March 3
Description: One of the biggest mistakes we make as writers, teachers, and storytellers is to show our audiences only perfect role models. This is off-putting to everyone, not just to young women. Research urges us again and again to show that the success achieved by role models should be attainable and replicable. That’s why the women in Wafa’ Tarnowska’s book Amazing Women of the Middle East are not perfect. They are not only queens or princesses. They come from all walks of life and from many parts of the Middle East.
Rama is a sudanese activist and writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She completed a poetry manuscript during COVID-19 quarantine in 2020. She continues to organize for democracy in Sudan, a necessary workin the wake of nine years of civil war. Rama has published two novels and a short story collection to great international acclaims. Her work has been translated to English, French, Korean, and Spanish. She is a writer-in-residence at city of asylum and chatham university.
Between February and April 2022, K-14 educators in the U.S. and around the world are invited to a three-part webinar series exploring certain current issues in the Middle East with a focus on historical context. Each 90-minute session will feature a different issue that demonstrates how understanding the past is essential for comprehending today’s Middle East. Content experts will introduce important contemporary issues before delving back into the past to explore how we arrived at our present moment.
The Consortium for Middle East Studies at Duke University-The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan.
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Lecture by Dr. Dana Moss (former Pitt faculty of Sociology)
For the 2021-22 academic year, the European Studies Center has announced its annual programmatic theme: “Recovering Europe.” Many of this year’s virtual roundtables will speak to this theme. In the Fall semester, sessions will explore economic and public health issues related to Europe’s recovery from the pandemic. In the Spring semester, sessions will consider different, and often uneven, attempts to reckon with and recover from the enduring legacies of European colonialism. The series will be bookended by sessions devoted to important elections impacting Europe.