Events
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Oct 12A lecture by Peter MakhloufIngraham 206
Peter Makhlouf's (postdoctoral fellow at University of Notre Dame) research spans topics ancient, medieval, and modern, and focuses primarily on the German, Arabic, and classical (Latin and Greek) traditions. Recent essays and talks have been devoted to the intersection of Palestinian literature and thought and the German-Jewish tradition.
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Oct 26An Expanded Istifada: Cochlear Implants and Regulating Communication for Deaf JordaniansTimothy Loh
Ingraham 206
Timothy Y. Loh is an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University. Bringing together medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and science and technology studies, his ethnographic research examines sociality, language, and religion in deaf and signing worlds spanning Jordan, Singapore, and the United States.
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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 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.