Please join poet Erik Rosen for a reading from the poetry of Rumi. This event is part of the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys series at Monroeville Public Library. The goal of this series is to familiarize public audiences with the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims in the United States and around the world.
As part of the "Idea of France" international and interdisciplinary conference being held November 10-12 on Pitt's campus, two global studies colloquia will be held. The first will be a discussion with John Bowen (Anthropology, Wash U) of his 2010 book Can Islam be French?, to be held Friday November 11, 8:30-10:00 a.m. at the Holiday Inn in Oakland (Schenley Room III/IV), 100 Lytton Street. The suggested reading is chaps. 1-3, and 9. A second colloquium will be held on Susan Suleiman and Christie McDonald’s edited volume French Global (2010) on Saturday November 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
