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2024 May 01

Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism and Islamophobia

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; and online

This in-person event is part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Civil Discourse Initiative and is open to Harvard ID holders. It will be livestreamed and available for viewing on the WCFIA YouTube Channel.

The panel will focus on how leading social scientists conceptualize, measure, and study key forms of prejudice in the US context, focusing specifically on antisemitism and Islamophobia. The event will bring together top scholars who are at the forefront of studying these important and pernicious phenomena using rigorous, evidence-based data, methods, and sources. 

Speakers
Jeffrey Kopstein, Director, Center for Jewish Studies; Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine. 

Nazita Lajevardi, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University.

Kassra A.R. Oskooii, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware. 

Sabine von Mering, Director, Center for German and European Studies; Professor of German and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University. 

Chair
Eric Beerbohm, Professor of Government; Director, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.

Moderator
Melani Cammett, Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.... Read more about Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism and Islamophobia

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