Past Events
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Oct 29Stay in Turkey or Continue Toward Europe? Palestinians Displaced from Syria and the Instability of ExileThis presentation will highlight the cultural, political, economic, and physical factors that help explain why some Palestinians displaced by the war in Syria have stayed in Turkey instead of using the country as a transit point to Europe.
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Oct 17Film: “The New Barbarianisim”The Marquee Cinema Union South, 1308 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI 53706 United States
The New Barbarianism is an award-winning 58-minute documentary focused on the surge of deliberate targeted violence against the medical sector in multiple chronic wars, in flagrant breach of the Geneva Conventions.
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Oct 15A Clash of Civilizations? East-West Migrations, Islamophobia, and the Cosmopolitanism of Mohja Kahf and Marjane SatrapiThe lecture will explore the different responses of diasporic women writers of Muslim backgrounds as they recast East/West binaries in the context of religion and cosmopolitan ideals.
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Oct 7Demystifying Muslims and IslamUnion South
Door opens at 1:00 PM. 1:30 PM: Welcome Remarks by Masood Akhtar, Founder, We Are Many – United Against Hate 1:40 PM: National News Coverage, Muslim Father Forgives Son’s Murderer 1:45 PM: “Demystifying Muslims and Islam” by Dalia Mogahed, Director of Research, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding 2:15 PM: Q&A
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Sep 24Transitional Justice in Tunisia: The Forgotten VictimsThis lecture addresses the fate of the thousands of so-called indirect victims, i.e. individuals who were persecuted, discriminated and socially excluded because they were related to political detainees.
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Sep 22Film: In the Last Days of the CityThis reflexive drama of creative stalemate and political alienation has won comparisons to 1960s masterworks 8 1/2 and Memories of Underdevelopment, but as an immersive portrait of a city in flux, it discovers poetry entirely its own.
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Sep 15Madison World Music FestivalWilly Street Fair Williamson St. Madison, WI 53703 United States
Music and dance from unique and unexpected parts of the world. This festival is a celebration of cultures and takes place on the famous Memorial Union Terrace and the Willy Street Fair. Middle Eastern performances include:
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Sep 15Madison World Music FestivalWilly Street Fair
Music and dance from unique and unexpected parts of the world. This festival is a celebration of cultures and takes place on the famous Memorial Union Terrace and the Willy Street Fair. Middle Eastern performances include:
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Apr 30Islamic reform and print, 1880-1920The merger of the printing and reform movements gave rise to international networks of scholars striving to locate, edit, finance, and print classical works. These networks spanned and connected Europe, Turkey, the Arab lands, and India.
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Apr 24On the Politics of FashionShannon Hall
Starting with images of illegal fashion she documented in her book Tehran Streetstyle, Hoda Katebi will guide participants through an engaging conversation exploring the politics of fashion and what it reveals about contemporary structures of violence — and modes of resistance.