The Social Justice Institutes and the Atkins Center for Ethics
Announced by University of Pittsburgh
On April 19, 1989, a young woman in the prime of her life was brutally raped and left for dead in New York City's Central Park. Five boys - four Black and one Latino - were tried and conviceted of the crime in a frenzied case that rocked the city. They became collectively known as "The Central Park Five."
Contact:
Ryan Scott, Director, Social Justice Institutes: rsscott@carlow.edu, 412.578.2043
Pitt Muslim Student Association, The Office of Interfaith Dialogue
Join the Muslim Student Association and the Office of Interfaith Dialogue at Pitt with the our Interfaith Open Mic Night next Thursday October 17th at 8:30 PM in Nordy's! This event will allow Pitt students from different religious, cultural backgrounds and world views to come together and showcase talents, poems, spoken word, musical pieces, dance etc that relate to their religious/cultural identity. This is a great opportunity for Pitt students to learn from each other's backgrounds, meet people, and create a sense of community throughout campus.
This presentation will feature exiled writers who are part of City of Asylum's Exiled Writer Residency Program, which is a long-term residency for literary writers who are in exile from their home countries and under threat of persecution because of their writing. The goal of this sanctuary program, which is operated on the Northside in Pittsburgh, is to enable each writer-in-residence to continue to write while transitioning to a stable, independent life in exile.
Middle East Studies Center (MESC) at Portland State University, Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Announced by University of Pittsburgh
Middle East Reads: Educator Book Club
The Middle East Studies Center (MESC) at Portland State University and the Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are starting an online book club through Goodreads.com.
We welcome all educators, K-12 teachers, community college professors, and librarians to join us online from any location. Pre-service teachers are also encouraged to join.
FUNDED program for full-time community college/university faculty is the Palestinian American Research Center’s Faculty Development Seminar on Palestine. It will be held in Jerusalem and the West Bank, from June 3-16. Applications are due Jan. 15. For a lot more information and an application, go to: http://parc-us-pal.org/facultyDevSem.htm
Book Talk
The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies
Thursday, October 24, 4:30-6 PM
2432 Posvar Hall
How does labor migration facilitate authoritarianism? Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas examines how migration and political power are inextricably linked, identifying the ways through which authoritarian regimes rely on the export of human capital across the Middle East and the Global South. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
Monday, October 7, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. in Wesley W. Posvar Hall Room 3431 to meet H.E. Asad Majeed Khan, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States. Ambassador Khan will be discussing the intricacies of the relationship between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, as well as Pakistan’s status and role in 21st century Asia.