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The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University Celebrates Convocation
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, one of the nation’s newest schools of international relations and international affairs, celebrated its first convocation on May 16, 2015. Visit www.bu.edu/pardeeschool to [...]learn more.
More than 200 BA and MA degrees were awarded at the ceremony, along with multiple prizes for students and faculty members, including awards in undergraduate and graduate academic excellence.
The Pardee School is now home to Boston University’s long-established International Relations program and a range of programs and centers of area and thematic studies. These include the African Studies Center, the Latin American Studies Program, the Center for the Study of Asia, the Center for the Study of Europe, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations, the Middle East & North Africa Studies Program and the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs.
In 2014, the Pardee School opened its doors to nearly 1,000 students in nine graduate degree programs, two graduate certificates, five undergraduate majors and eight undergraduate minors. The 2015 graduating class is the first to walk under the Pardee School banner, but they join an illustrious community. The programs that are now part of the Pardee School of Global Studies have produced nearly 9,000 Pardee School alumni, who can be found around the world and are already making a global impact.
The Pardee School offers generous financial assistance and opportunities for study abroad and student-directed research. Learn more at www.bu.edu/pardeeschool.
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"Sex, Work, and the Hijab: Islamic Ideals and American Realities"-Stephen Young
SMSC resumed its doctoral candidate series with a presentation by Stephen Young of the University Professors Program. In a lecture titled "Sex, Work, and the Hijab: Islamic Ideals and American Realities," Young highlighted some of his own [...]ethnographic research conducted with American Muslims living in greater Boston.
Filmed: October 24, 2007 at 11:00am in the School of Theology, Boston University.
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An Overview of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Part of the Spring 2013 Institute for Iraqi Studies Workshop: " Learning from the Iraqi Refugee Experience in Syria," Ms. Vicky Kelberer (International Relations, Boston University) presents the current issues and figures behind a growing crisis of [...]refugees in Syria. For more information about the presentation, see the IIS web site: http://www.bu.edu/iis
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“The Arab Spring and Social Anthropology.†- Dale F. Eickelman
This presentation on February 8, 2012 explored how scholars writing in different national contexts find themselves now, as in the past, in constricted,volatile, shifting, and precarious regional and international political and economic currents. How [...]has the balance shifted today between social thought and public responsibility, and for whose public? It explored the changing craft of social anthropology in the Middle East over the last half century and suggested the likely shape that field research and the writing of anthropology will take in at least the coming decade.
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"Due Process in Islamic Criminal Law" - Sadiq Reza
(March 27, 2009) SMSC invited islamic law scholar Sadiq Reza from New York School of Law to host a talk about "Due Process in Islamic Criminal Law."
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"Three Years in Iran: A Student's Observation"-Matthew Pierce
SMSC continued its Doctoral Candidate Seminar Series with Matthew Pierce. The talk focused on experiences with the education system in Qom, Iran
Filmed: March 21, 2007
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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America after 9/11 - Geneive Abdo
The Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, together with the BU Dept. of Anthropology and the BU Humanities Foundation welcomed author, journalist, and expert Geneive Abdo to the Castle. Her talk, titled "Mecca and Main [...]Street: Muslim Life in America after 9/11," highlighted some of the findings of her study of Islam in America published in her new book of the same name.
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Lecture: "An Exploration of Muslim Humor" - Ulrich Marzolph
(November 16, 2009) Ulrich Marzolph is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Goettingen, Germany, and a senior member of the editorial committee of the "Enzyklopaedie des Maerchens". In his presentation, Dr. Marzolph presented an [...]exploration of Muslim humor.
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“Muslims Through Christian Eyes: From the Prophet to the Present†- Harvey Cox
Among the issues Prof. Cox explores are urbanization, theological developments in world Christianity, Jewish-Christian relations, and current spiritual movements in the global setting (particularly Pentecostalism). He has been a visiting professor at [...]Brandeis University, Seminario Bautista de Mexico, the Naropa institute and the University of Michigan. Dr. Cox is also a prolific author whose latest book is The Future of Faith (Harper Collins, 2009).
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