Book Talk: From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine
Book talk with authors Mike Omer-Man and Sarah Leah Whitson, Moderated by professor Lisa Anderson.
Read MoreB'Tselem 'Our Genocide'
Please join us for a discussion of the recently published report, 'Our Genocide' by The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'tselem. Speakers Yuli Novak and Kareem Jubran will be joined by Professor Diana Greenwald to discuss the research and its significance in the fight against genocide in Palestine.
Read MoreBody as Archive: Gender, Borders and Witnessing Operas
Kathryn Spellman Poots and Nadje Al-Ali will be in conversation with the Turkish-Kurdish artist Fatma Bucak as part of their series on gender, art and body politics with reference to the Middle east and its diasporas.
Read MoreCulture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora
November 6, 2025
6:15 PM
Knox Hall Room 208 and on Zoom
Amy Malek, a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in the intersections of migration, citizenship, memory, and culture in the Iranian diaspora, will discusses her new book, Culture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora. Her scholarship has been published in a wide variety of interdisciplinary journals, such as Memory Studies, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Iranian Studies. Her new book, forthcoming from New York University Press, is an ethnographic examination of the impacts of cultural policies on diasporic Iranian communities in Sweden, Canada, and the United States.
Sponsors:
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Asian Diaspora and Asian American Studies, Barnard College
