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Global Uprising

GLOBAL UPRISING

Public programing for Spring 2021!  Featuring “Digital Forays” and “Global Uprising” series, a student-organized Arabic Lecture Series co-sponsored by NYU’s Middle East and Islamic Studies department and our on-going Iranian Studies Initiative, co-sponsored by Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

January 26: GLOBAL UPRISING: Policing as Politics, Policing as War with Nadia Abu El-Haj (Columbia University), Paul Amar (UC Santa Barbara), Stuart Schrader (Johns Hopkins University) & Discussant Nikhil Pal Singh (NYU). Co-sponsored by NYU’s Gallatin Human Rights Initiative.

February 9: GLOBAL UPRISING: Insurrection and Reaction: Uprising Against the Left with Anthony Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community College & CUNY Graduate Center), Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics and Political Science), Alejandro Velasco (NYU), and Discussant Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental). Co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

February 22: الأزمة الاقتصادية في لبنان – The Economic Crisis in Lebanon with Kamal Hamdan (California State University Dominguez Hills & Consultation and Research Institute in Lebanon) and Discussant Jad Ghosn (Journalist). Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Lecture will be conducted in Arabic.

February 24: GLOBAL UPRISING: Space & Time I: Crowds, Bodies, Affect with Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University), Frances Hasso (Duke University), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University), and Discussant Gayatri Gopinath (NYU). Co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

 January 26, 2021 

Organizer:  Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies 

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