University of Pittsburgh

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

Dante and Arabic Philosophy - A Columbia University and UC Berkeley Joint Seminar organized by Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia, Italian) and Akash Kumar (UC Berkeley, Italian Studies)

Session 1: L’Ordine dell’Universo nella “Commedia”

Presenter: Sebastiano Italia (University of Catania)

Respondent: Susanna Barsella (Fordham University)

Via Zoom and in Italian

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

Join us for a virtual book discussion of "The Night Will Have Its Say", a novel by Ibrahim al-Koni, the International Booker Prize finalist and “one of the Arab world’s most innovative novelists” (Roger Allen). The book discussion will be with the book translator Nancy Roberts (free-lance Arabic-to-English translator) and in conversation with Emily Drumsta (Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and French & Italian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin).

MODERATOR:

Juliet Johnson
Professor of Political Science, McGill University
President, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

SPEAKERS:
Ilya Gerasimov
Executive Director, Ab Imperio Quarterly
University of Illinois, Chicago

Ararat Osipian
Founding Fellow
New University in Exile Consortium, New York

Serhy Yekelchyk
Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Victoria

Panel VI. The Future of SEEES Expertise: How Can We Anticipate Tomorrow’s Differences?

MODERATOR:

Caress Schenk
Associate Professor of Political Science
Nazarbayev University

SPEAKERS:

Shoshana Keller
Chair and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History
Hamilton College

Irina Roldugina
UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pittsburgh

Louis Porter
Assistant Professor of History
Texas State University

Panel V. Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently?

MODERATOR:

Douglas Rogers
Professor and Chair of Anthropology
Yale University

SPEAKERS:
Anna Arays
Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies
Yale University

Fatima Tlis
Journalist
Voice of America

Erica Marat
Associate Professor and Chair, Regional and Analytical Studies Department
National Defense University

Panel IV. Impact Beyond the Ivory Tower?

MODERATOR:

Jessica Pisano
Associate Professor
The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College

SPEAKERS:

Amanda Zadorian
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
Oberlin College

Mariia Shynkarenko
Ph.D. Candidate
New School for Social Research

Karolina Koziura
Ph.D. Candidate
New School for Social Research

Emerging Scholars on the State of the Field, Activism, and Advocacy is the third panel in the Decolonization in focus Series.

Panel II:

MODERATOR:

Vitaly Chernetsky
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
President-Elect, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

SPEAKERS:

Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska
Associate Professor of Economics
Warsaw School of Economics

Botakoz Kassymbekova
Assistant Professor of History
University of Basel

Iryna Sklokina
Historian and Researcher
Lviv Center for Urban History

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