Events

Mar

4

Lecture

Made to Move: Placemaking and Accumulated Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria with Matthew DeMaio

Location:

Linderman Library, Room 200

March 4, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

For the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who had long lived in Syria as refugees, the advent of civil war in 2011 occasioned not a first experience of displacement but rather another iteration of enforced migration, necessitating encounters with new places of refuge…

Apr

1

Lecture

Academic Freedom in Times of Crisis with Maura Finkelstein

Location:

STEPS 101

April 1, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Recently, talk of “academic freedom” and “student safety” have become all consuming on college and university campuses across the US. But what do we mean by “academic freedom”? And what do we mean by “student safety”? This talk will consider these questions within the context of…

Apr

2

Lecture

Warzone Ecology: What Birding in Iraq Tells Us About Environmental Justice with Bridget Guarasci

Location:

STEPS 101

April 2, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

This talk develops the conceptual framework “warzone ecology” to analyze how war and the biosphere have been forged in inextricable relation in Iraq, thereby rejecting any facile distinctions between nature and culture in order to emphasize mutuality, intra-activity, and…

Apr

23

Lecture

Waste as Horizon: Infrastructure and Palestine’s Future with Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

Location:

STEPS 101

April 23, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

How does waste mediate social and political life? Stamatopoulou-Robbins traces Palestinians’ experiences of waste in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Her talk offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it begins with the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic…

College of
Arts and Sciences

Global Islamic Studies

Events

Mar

4

Made to Move: Placemaking and Accumulated Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria with Matthew DeMaio

Apr

1

Academic Freedom in Times of Crisis with Maura Finkelstein

Apr

2

Warzone Ecology: What Birding in Iraq Tells Us About Environmental Justice with Bridget Guarasci

Apr

23

Waste as Horizon: Infrastructure and Palestine’s Future with Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins