"America's Troubled Foreign Policy," by Professor John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.
CERIS, Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
CERIS and the Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh will host a workshop centered around the article written by Nathan Thrall "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama".
6 :00 PM Eastern Standard Time
Bob Ross, Professor of Social Justice Studies Point Park University will provide context of life in the West Bank in the Occupied Territories. Erin Brault long time education with Pittsburgh Public Schools is discuss ways to incorporate the content into curriculum.
The Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce the sixth iteration of Global Across the Curriculum (GXC), an interdisciplinary seminar intended to help faculty incorporate global perspectives into their undergraduate and graduate courses.
UC Berkley International Consortium of Critical Theory Program and Center for Middle Eastern Studies v
A talk by Linda Tabar, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex as part of “Thinking from Palestine: Dispossession, Liberation, and Return: Conversations on Three Recent and Forthcoming Books," a series presented by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs.
Georgetown University's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the African Studies Program, and Georgetown University Qatar are pleased to host Tareq Baconi from Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network.
The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and Arizona Center for Turkish Studies
Building on Max Weber’s sociological theory, this study proposes that value-laden and instrumentally rational predispositions can explain beliefs in conspiracy theories in Turkey. It argues that changing political contexts influencing people’s values and partisan preferences lead to fluctuations between left- and right-wing tendencies in conspiracy theorizing. The presentation discusses two studies. The first explores the significance of the Turkish government’s conspiracy theories about the Gezi Park Protests in a popular forum website, Eksisozluk.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Rumi, the Muslim poet and mystic, has become a popular spiritual icon in the contemporary era and though his poetry and personae has resulted in some critiques of our consumption and appropriation of Islam, this talk will consider how Sufi communities in Canada with deep commitments to Rumi are defining their relationship to Rumi and Sufism through ritual practices.
