Government

2024 Mar 22

A Live Conversation with Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian Photojournalist

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

To be announced

Harvard Law School's Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory is hosting Palestinian journalist Motaz Azaiza in his first-ever live conversation in the United States.

He will be the keynote speaker for their 5th Annual conference entitled Censorship and Consciousness.

Check out the full conference and register for tickets now before they sell out: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/thebellcollective/censorship-consciousness-2024/... Read more about A Live Conversation with Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian Photojournalist

2024 Mar 06

India Votes 2024: The World’s Largest Democracy?

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

This spring, the The Lakshmi Mittal and Family Institute will host a series of events focused on the Indian elections, from how they are covered to what it means regionally and globally. This is the launch of the series, focusing on

How should we assess India’s standing as the “world’s largest democracy,” in theory and practice?

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/CNhT5CU1YCtqrpjL6... Read more about India Votes 2024: The World’s Largest Democracy?

Derek Penslar

Derek Penslar

William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History

Derek Penslar was educated at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Indiana University between 1987 and 1998,...

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2024 Jan 22

Turkey and the West: Autonomy and Contestation in a Changing Global Order

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Lower Level conference room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies presents

Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Professor of International Relations, Sabancı University; Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinatorlicy Center, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University

Atila Eralp, Professor Emeritus in the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Member of the Mercator-Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) International Advisory Council (2019-2023), International Advisory Council

Fuat Keyman, Professor of International Relations, Sabancı University; Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Social Impact, Sabanci University; Director, Istanbul Policy Center, and

Andrew O'Donohue, Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

ChairLenore Martin, Professor of Political Science, Emmanuel College; Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Turkey and the West: Autonomy and Contestation in a Changing Global Order

2024 Mar 28

The Making of the Modern Muslim State. Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Making of the Modern Muslim State coverThe WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Malika Zeghal discusses her new book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (Princeton University Press, 2024)... Read more about The Making of the Modern Muslim State. Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

2024 Feb 08

Israel’s Third Transformation: Electoral Politics and the Future of the State

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University, and

Shaul Magid, Dartmouth College Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies and Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Harvard Divinity School

**Open to Harvard ID holders only**... Read more about Israel’s Third Transformation: Electoral Politics and the Future of the State

2023 Oct 30

Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

12:15pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

with

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (occupied Palestinian territories)
Moderator: Chris Williams, Clinical Instructor, HLS

Registration required: https://bit.ly/3S8NZdn
 
Description: The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Ms. Francesca Albanese, will be discussing the current situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and the international legal implications of the events that unfolded since October 7.... Read more about Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

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