October 2, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

Researching Silence: Landscapes and Archives

Munira Khayyat is a Clinical Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.
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October 1, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

Istanbul as a Multicultural Imperial Capital

Mostafa Minawi is an Associate Professor of History and the Founder of the Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies initiative at Cornell University.
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September 26, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

When NGOs Refuse Money Towards a Typology and Developing a Database

Logan Cochrane is an Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy.
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September 24, 2024
1:30 AM – 2:00 AM
Faculty Seminar Series

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.
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April 24, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

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.
April 23, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar 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.
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April 3, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

Latinx (Literary) Imaginings and Our (Un-)Knowable Futures or, Are We Post-Latinx Yet?

With Professor Ricardo Ortiz.
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April 2, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

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.
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March 25, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

From Revolution to Fragmented Authoritarianism: The Proxification of the Syrian Uprising

1A16 (Executive Program Suite) Speakers Bassam Haddad Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of…
Poster for a Georgetown University in Qatar lecture titled “From Revolution to Fragmented Authoritarianism: The Proxification of the Syrian Uprising” with speaker Bassam Haddad, date Monday, March 25, and an image of a protest with Syrian flags.
March 18, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

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.
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