OCMES, Baldwin Wallace Univer- sity, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University
International news media called Ahmet Yildiz’s murder the "first Turkish gay honor killing." The crime and the discourses that unfolded in its aftermath speak to racializing narratives within Turkey, as well as across transnational queer circuits, and to the imagined transnational division of labor between the domestic and the public, where the relationship between sex and violence is used to shore up the West as the place of stranger danger by establishing the so-called "East" as the location of family violence.
The Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue invites local faculty, students, and members of the general public to the “Religion & Society Lecture Series” of monthly talks. The series has been organized in collaboration with the Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh, which will provide refreshments.
Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace
Bassem Tamimi is an internationally recognized Palestinian human rights activist from the West Bank farming village of Nabi Selah, where weekly nonviolent demonstrations are held in opposition to illegal Israeli settlement construction and military occupation. Bassem has been detained by the Israeli authorities over a dozen times, at one point spending three years in administrative detention without trial. In 1993, as a result of interrogation by the Israeli Shin Bet, Bassem was left unconscious for eight days and partially paralyzed for months to follow.
Christian–Muslim Dialogue Committee of Duquesne University in collaboration with the Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh
Nicholas Cafardi, Dean Emeritus and Professor in the Duquesne University School of Law, will give the inaugural lecture in the Religion & Society Lecture Series, a project of the Christian–Muslim Dialogue Committee of Duquesne University and the Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh.
Professor Cafardi will speak on “Religious Freedom & its Intersection with the 14th Amendment,” in 719 Fisher Hall on Wednesday, 16 September at 4:30.
The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.
Art History Class:
Historical Perspectives on Persian and Iranian Art and Culture
4 sessions, Wednesdays or Saturdays
Starting July 22 or 25, 10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
$80 ($64, Carnegie Museums members)
Explore Iran’s rich cultural and artistic history with Soude Dadras, visiting scholar in the department of history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Each session will focus on one of four art forms deeply rooted in Persian history—carpets, ceramics, architecture, and calligraphy and painting.
Department of Religous Studies, Dietrich School of Arts and Sceinces, University of Pittsburgh
Ismail Fajrie Alatas, to present on the Muslim pilgrims on pious journeys to visit the tombs of Muslim saints scattered around Java. Mr. Alatas will present his research on the process of history-making that enable sites to become popular pilgrimage destinations. Comprehending these dynamics in turn provides a contextual glimpse into the various negotiations that constitute the formation of Islamic spiritual authority. Ismail Fajrie Alatas is in the joint doctoral program in Anthropology & History, University of Michigan
K-16 educators are invited to attend the CERIS spring 2015 book discussion. Dr. Luke Peterson, University of Pittsburgh will facilitate discussion. Registration is required. 5:30 PM dinner (free), 6:00 PM Discussion. Educators can participate in person or via the Internet
