Lectures & Seminars
Past Lectures
Yves Gonzalez-Quijano
Blogs in the Arab World
May 13
3:40-5:00
Watkins 1350
Yves Gonzalez-Quijano is the director of the Gremmo (Groupe de recherches et d’études sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient). He also teaches at the University Lyon II. He founded the « Arab Worlds » collection for the Actes Sud publisher, and he has translated many contemporary Arab authors, including Hanan el-Cheikh, Sonallah Ibrahim, Mahmoud Darwich and Rachid el-Daïf. He has carried out research in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and the Arab Gulf region. He is the author of several books and many articles on topics ranging from publishing to the media, as well as contemporary literature and culture. He writes a weekly blog on contemporary cultural issues. (http://culturepolitiquearabe.blogspot.com/ and http://arabpoliticsofculture.blogspot.com/).
Past Events
Zacarias Moussaoui:
Moroccan Muslim? French Terrorist? Benighted Zealot?
War Criminal? Serial Migrant? All of the Above?
Susan Terrio, Georgetown University
March 4
11 am
INTS 1121
Susan Terrio is a cultural anthropologist and teaches at Georgetown University where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and French. She has written widely on minority youth, juvenile justice systems, children's rights, race and ethnicity, and global penality. Her latest book is entitled, Judging Muhammad. Juvenile delinquency, Immigration and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice, due to appear in early 2008 from Stanford University Press.