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RCGA Annual Conference: From Scroll to Scrolling: Shifting Cultures of Language and Identities

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Session II: Shifting Genealogies of Sacred Languages • Hebrew Language and Inquisition Censorship: The crisis of post-Tridentine Spanish humanism Francisco Javier Perea Siller, University of Córdoba, Spain • Neo-Aramaic Enriched Biblical Narratives Oz Aloni, Middlebury College • There’s an App for That: The democratization of texts and Qur’anic healing in Morocco James Riggan, Florida State University

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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RAJCON Gallery Opening and Reception

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
The Rohatyn Center is hosting a gallery opening and reception to celebrate a new photography exhibit. Come view the work of Sarah Corsico ’18 and Hannah Blackburn ’17, who spent last summer in Rwanda documenting the Faces of GHI (Gardens for Health International). Snacks will be served.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Racism in International Development

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, and Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
“Racism in International Development” panel with Emma Crewe, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SOAS, University of London; William Michael Cunningham, founder, Creative Investment Research; and Conor Shapiro ‘03, president and CEO, St. Boniface Haiti Foundation. Cosponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and the Center for Creativity, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship.

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

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Daughter of the Bedouin’s Chief : Writing Female Identity in the Land of Prohibitions

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Arabic, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, and Comparative Literature
Dr. Miral Mahgoub, an Egyptian novelist and Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Middle East/Islamic Studies at the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, will speak about her novel, The Tent (1996), a dream-like portrayal of rural Bedouin life in Egypt. Dr. Mahgoub was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2010 for her novel Brooklyn Heights and was recently profiled by the New York Times: “Making the Life of a Modern Nomad into Literature” (1/4/2012).

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Normalizing US-Cuban Relations: The Obama Legacy

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Int'l Politics & Economics, Political Science, Spanish Department, and Latin American Studies
Lecture “Normalizing US-Cuban Relations: The Obama Legacy” by Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst at the National Security Archives. Kornbluh currently directs the Archive’s Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects, and formerly was co-director of the Iran-contra documentation project and director of the Archive’s project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University. He has authored numerous articles and four books, including his latest —”Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana” (UNC Press, 2014).

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public