The Diaspora and the Cemetery: Migration and the Development of Berber Consciousness from North Africa to Europe and Back

Date: 

Friday, February 24, 2012, 2:15pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

The Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA

Video of this event coming soon.

Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France. Photo by Paul Silverstein.The Center for European Studies & the Center for Middle Eastern Studies are pleased to present
 

Paul Silverstein
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Reed College

Paul A. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College. A 2008 Carnegie scholar, he is author of Algeria in France:Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (Indiana, 2004) and co-editor of Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments (Nebraska, 2009). His current research focuses on land rights, secularism, and the Berber/Amazigh movement in southeastern Morocco.  He chairs the board of directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

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Contact: Liz Flanagan
Sponsor(s): Center for European Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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