Events
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Oct 12Catastrophic Belatedness (Celan, Darwish, Derrida)Peter Makhlouf
Ingraham 206
Peter Makhlouf (University of Notre Dame) reflects on how the poem as such possesses a relevance each time we, as readers, engage with it, actualize its demands in the present, and answer its call to refuse the catastrophic nature of temporality: the division of exterminative violence into before/during/after that renders that violence a fait accompli immune from contest.
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Oct 26An Expanded Istifada: Cochlear Implants and Regulating Communication for Deaf JordaniansTimothy Loh
Ingraham 206
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a hospital in Amman as part of a larger project on the politics of deafness, disability, and assistive technologies for deaf Jordanians, Timothy Y. Loh (Princeton University) examines a speech-centric ethos in therapeutic approaches for deaf children in Jordan who have been fitted with cochlear implants.
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Oct 26Children’s International Story Hour: “Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine”Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716
We are excited to present the children’s book: Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck (Author) and Reem Madooh (Illustrator). We will be reading the book to children, introducing basic Arabic words, teaching basic facts about Palestine, and creating an art project based on the book! This is part of a series that introduces children’s literature that celebrates the diversity …
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Feb 22To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being PalestinianZahi Zalloua
Ingraham 206
Drawing on W. E. B. Du Bois's question, "How does it feel to be a problem?", Professor Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College) examines the shared experiences of Black and Palestinian people as groups racialized as threats. He argues that anti-Blackness and anti-Palestinian racism are foundational to systems of white and settler dominance, casting Black people as criminals and Palestinians as terrorists to justify oppression.
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Mar 15Children’s International Story Hour: “These Olive Trees”Imagination Center Library, 1814 Parkside Dr Madison, WI 53704
We are excited to present the children’s book: These Olive Trees by Aya Ghanameh (Author, Illustrator). We will be reading the book to children, introducing basic Arabic words, teaching basic facts about Palestine, and creating an art project based on the book! This is part of a series that introduces children’s literature that celebrates the diversity of art, culture, food, …
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Mar 29A lecture by Yasmin MollIngraham 206
Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor of anthropology at University of Michigan. She is an anthropologist of religion and media with a focus on the Middle East as well as a practicing visual ethnographer.
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Apr 14Sharing Jerusalem: Urban Mixing and Its Limits in a Late Ottoman CityMichelle Campos
Michelle Campos is a scholar of 19th- and early 20th-century Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern history whose work focuses on three overlapping fields: the history of Palestine and Israel; the late Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern Middle East; and Sephardic Jewish studies.
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May 24Children’s International Story Hour: “Salma the Syrian Chef”Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716
We are excited to present the children’s book: Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan (Author), Anna Bron (Illustrator). We will be reading the book to children, introducing basic Arabic words, teaching basic facts about Palestine, and creating an art project based on the book! This is part of a series that introduces children’s literature that celebrates the diversity of art, culture, …