Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
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Sep 21Drawing (Geographies of) Disaster in the Lebanese Graphic Novel
Carla Calargé, Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida Atlantic University, examines how contemporary Lebanese graphic novels mobilize Beirut’s urban landscape to engage with war, memory, neoliberal reconstruction, and the succession of national disasters that have marked Lebanon’s recent history.
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Sep 24The Middle East in the Global Economy and Global Security
This program will examine the fallout of the Iran War: fuel prices, inflation, commodity prices and shortages, and the security and political consequences for the region’s people, the United States, and the wider world.
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Oct 12Catastrophic Belatedness (Celan, Darwish, Derrida)
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 Jordanians
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”
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 …