Join us on April 9th at 5pm for Our 2015 “Sushi Lecture” “Howard Zinn in Japan: Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Solidarity in Hiroshima”
Ann Sherif, Professor, East Asian Studies Program, Oberlin College April 9, 5pm 745 Commonwealth Avenue STH B19 Sushi Reception to Follow In 1966, historian Howard Zinn and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee member Ralph Featherstone were invited to participate in anti-Vietnam War teach-ins in cities all over Japan by Tsurumi Shunsuke, Oda Makoto and other antiwar […]
Join us on Thursday March 19th for “Dissidence in Turkey; Elections and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy”
Thursday, March 19, 2015 from 3:30-5:00pm 121 Bay State Road, First Floor Sinan Ciddi is an expert on Turkish domestic politics and foreign policy. He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2007 in the field of Political Science. Dr. Ciddi is also a teacher and researcher […]
“Moral Injury and Muhammed’s Cartoons” Thinking Reparatively with Eve Sedgwick on March 5
Fifth Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies with Saba Mahmood University of California, Berkeley March 5, 2015, 5:30 PM Reception to Follow in The Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary’s Street Room 206. Taking its cue from Eve Sedgwick, this talk offers a “reparative reading” of the ongoing struggle over the […]
Join Us For Wiebke Denecke’s Talk “Do We Still Need Literary History? A View From Eastern Eurasia” on March 4th
Moral Injury and Muhammed’s Cartoons: Thinking Reparatively with Eve Sedgwick on March 5th
Taking its cue from Eve Sedgwick, this talk offers a “reparative reading” of recent controversies over the proper meaning of cultural objects (cartoons, novels) in Europe and the Middle East. Rather than read these debates as a standoff between religious taboos and secular freedoms, Mahmood unpacks the distinct epistemological and interpretive stakes at the heart […]
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Internationally Acclaimed Russian Poet Vera Pavlova Visits CAS
Read about her full visit here!