Event Type: Faculty

Showing 33 “Faculty” posts

  • Freedom is a Place: The Struggle for Urban Land in South Africa

    This presentation examines Fanon’s thinking about collective movement, of being in a shared political movement.

    picture of richard pithouse with a khaki jacket and light blue shirt. Standing in from of green trees
  • Book Launch: Universal Basic Income by Karl Widerquist

    An accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.

    A book titled Universal Basic Income by Karl Widerquist, featuring a red hot air balloon with a dollar sign on its black cover. The book is part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.
  • Qatar’s Key Contribution: Upholding International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law in Times of Crisis

    His Excellency Dr. Turki bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud is the Director of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Qatar.

    Headshot for Dr. Turki Al Mahmoud
  • Safeguarding the Laws of War: The Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross

    What role do international organizations have in upholding international humanitarian law?

    Event poster with photos of two women, Basma Tabaja and Yara Khawaja, for a talk titled Safeguarding the Laws of War: The Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross at Georgetown University Qatar, April 24, 1–2 PM.
  • Latinx (Literary) Imaginings and Our (Un-)Knowable Futures or, Are We Post-Latinx Yet?

    With Professor Ricardo Ortiz.

    A man with short gray hair smiles with arms crossed, wearing a navy blue Georgetown University T-shirt and sunglasses hanging from the collar, standing in front of large tan rocks.
  • Untouchability as Global

    This talk explores the historical making of this little-known transnational world of untouchable groups, focusing on the experiences of Korea’s Baekjeong.

    A wooden theatrical mask with black accents and cord ties rests on a cracked, textured surface, lit by warm, dramatic light from the side.
  • Women and the Sikh Diaspora

    This talk will chart the alternative transoceanic history in the South Asian diaspora among Sikh women through their speech and songs across the twentieth century.

    Two women wearing embroidered veils, one in red facing away from the camera and one in purple, stand among a blurred crowd in colorful attire, possibly at a cultural or religious event.
  • Rethinking the Global Autocracy Paradigm

    Daniel Brumberg is Senior Advisor to the Democracy and Governance program at Georgetown University and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Center.

    A man with dark hair and a navy shirt speaks into a microphone at a press conference, with a partial web address and social media icons visible on the background banner.
  • Understanding the failure of Tunisia’s Arab Spring

    Daniel Brumberg is Senior Advisor to the Democracy and Governance program at Georgetown University and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Center.

    A man with dark hair and a navy shirt speaks into a microphone at a press conference, with a partial web address and social media icons visible on the background banner.
  • Social Crises and Reparative Responsibilities in French Noir Fiction

    A faculty seminar on social crises and reparative possibilities in French noir fiction.

    A woman with wavy dark brown hair smiles at the camera. She is wearing a dark top and stands in front of a blurred brick background.