The Pardee School’s Centers, Institutes, and Initiatives aim to both develop and share knowledge of specific regions and their states, societies, cultures, languages, peoples, and environment. They foster rigorous, transformative scholarship that crosses existing national, regional, and disciplinary boundaries.

 

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Center & Institute Events

Speaking in Code: Youth Poetry and the Politics of Possibility in Urban Uganda

Day: Friday Jan 23rd Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)

Teacher Workshop: Teaching Hard History for Elementary Learners with Primary Source

Day: Wednesday Feb 4th Time: 8:30am - 3:00pm LaCava Center at Bentley University

Desiring Sex, Desiring Piety: Sexual Moralities, Islam, and the Good (Gay) Muslim in Amman, Jordan

Day: Friday Feb 6th Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)

African Literature Book Group Discussion: Discussing Dream Count by Chimamanda Adichie

Day: Wednesday Feb 25th Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom

Trump, Christian Nationalism, and Migration

Day: Friday Mar 20th Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)

The Politics of Sanctity and Human Rights

Day: Friday Apr 3rd Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)

Through and Beyond the State: Collaborative Finance and Cosmologies of Solidarity in East Africa

Day: Friday Apr 17th Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)