2016 Fall The “War on Terror,” 15 Years Later
Student Workshop – Lina Sergie Attar
When Conflict Hits Home: Processing Loss while Building Hope for Syria Syria is the largest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime. The unprecedented scale of destruction and displacement has created a […]
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A Discussion with Human Rights Attorney Michael Deutsch from the People’s Law Firm Michael Deutsch is a renowned human rights attorney with the Chicago “People’s Law Office,” and a past […]
Read MorePublic Lecture – Zareena Grewal
The Quran in the American Imagination The Quran is one of the most iconic objects in American debates about racial and religious tolerance.聽Is the Quran a “good book”? Is it […]
Read MoreTuesday Noon Academy – Sumita Pahwa
How Islamist Intellectuals, Activists and Militants Have Responded Differently to the West Islamist activists in the Middle East have been fundamentally shaped by the political, intellectual and religious challenges that […]
Read MorePublic Lecture – Lisa Hajjar
Owning Up to American Torture Within days of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, some officials in the Bush聽administration began contemplating the notion that captured suspects聽might need to be tortured in order […]
Read MoreTuesday Noon Academy – Pardis Mahdavi
From Trafficking to Terror: Connecting Two Global Wars The “war on terror” and the “war on trafficking”, two seemingly separate initiatives, have become interwoven in recent years and conspire to […]
Read MorePublic Lecture – Vijay Prashad
The Global War on Terror from the Standpoint of its Victims Seen from a village in Waziristan, in the upper reaches of Pakistan, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) appears […]
Read MorePublic Event – Molly Crabapple
Drawing Blood: Molly Crabapple “A punk Joan Didion, a young Patti Smith with paint on her hands, a twenty-first century Sylvia Plath.” 鈥擝ooklist Art, sex, politics, and survival in […]
Read MoreStudent Workshop – Steve Negus
Reporting Conflict in the Arab World The U.S invasion of Iraq in 2003 triggered a new era in international reporting on the Middle East, with new technologies, practices and opportunities. […]
Read MorePublic Talk – Michael Deutsch
Representing and Defending Political Activists in U.S. Courts in the Age of Terrorism Mr. Deutsch will discuss the emergence of Federal and State “terrorism” laws, including sentencing enhancements, special court […]
Read MorePublic Lecture- Joseph Masco
Anticipatory States and Planetary Peril What are the emerging impacts of “pre-emption” as a key policy of the post-9/11 counter-terror state in the United States? In this lecture, Joseph Masco […]
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