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April 22, 2012 Abdelmajid Hannoum, Associate Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence Harraga, "those who burn" in Arabic, refers to North Africans who attempt to illegally migrate to Europe via the Straits of Gibraltar. Hannoum's talk is based on a 2009 ethnography he conducted with young Harragas. Hannoum is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is the author of…
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April 16, 2012 Arab Spring: Unfoldings Refoldings Laila Lalami, novelist, journalist Ahmed El Shamsy, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Using Egypt and Morocco as grounding for a discussion about Arab Spring, these two scholars will compare notes about events in these two countries as they continue to unfold—Egypt on the eve of presidential elections and Morocco as an example of liberalized authoritarianism. El Shamsy is Assistant Professor…
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April 15, 2012 Globalization on the Margins, Tangiers’ Socio-Spatial Fabric William Kutz, PhD candidate, Clark University Over the past several years Kutz has conducted extensive fieldwork in Tangiers, documenting development of the city’s megaprojects, using it as a case study to understand the agents and effects of urban globalization. Kutz is a PhD candidate in geography at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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February 16, 2003 McKean is the author of Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement (University of Chicago Press, 1996). She was a research associate in the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and former managing editor of Public Culture. McKean was recently called upon to testify before the Senate regarding the surge in Hindu nationalism. This will serve as the backdrop for her reflections on Kanwar's films.
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January 30, 2003 Lal is a professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles. He writes on a wide variety of subjects for periodicals in the U.S., India and Britain. Some of his recent essays have been collected in The Poetics and Politics of Dissent: Essays on Indian History and Culture. Other publications include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in a New Global Economy and the forthcoming History of History: The Career and…
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