The US-Israeli wars on Palestine, Lebanon and Iran: A Roundtable
Wednesday, April 1
5-7pm
340 Stephens Hall, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Join the Program for Iranian & Persianate Studies for a teach-in that asks: What might humanistic scholarship offer during a time of US imperial expansion, heightened Islamophobia and environmental catastrophe in Southwest Asia?
Organized by core faculty member Roshanak Kheshti, the event will feature Minoo Moallem (Director of Iranian & Persianate Studies, Professor of Gender & Women's Studies), Salar Mameni (Core Faculty Member of Iranian & Persianate Studies, Associate Profesor of Ethnic Studies), Lela Mire (Ph.D. Student in Performance Studies), Roshanak Kheshti (Professor and Head Graudate Advisor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies), Mazyar Loftalian (Adjust Professor of Critical Studies at CCA), and Samera Esmeir (Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Center for Middle Eastern Studies Senior Research Scholar).
Sponsored by the Program in Iranian and Persianate Studies, The Departments of Gender and Women's Studies, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and Ethnic Studies; The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, Center for Race and Gender, and the Asian American Research Center.