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Film Screening: Beyond the Frontlines
none This film (2017, by Alexandra Dols) takes us on a journey both within our own minds and on the roads of Palestine, led by Palestinian psychiatrist and writer Dr. Samah Jabr. An heir to anticolonial psychiatrist Dr. Frantz Fanon, she exposes the psych ...
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The UN and the Question of Palestine
none Professor Ardi Imseis, Associate Professor of Law at Queen’s University will present and discuss his book: "The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity' (Cambridge Univ ...
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Guest Lecture with Ibrahim Salama
none The Schaeffer Center warmly welcomed Ibrahim Salama, former Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch at the Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), to give a lecture on the "Faith for Rights" framework ...
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Zoë Skoulding Poetry Reading
none Poetry reading and conversation with Zoë Skoulding. Zoë Skoulding is a poet and literary critic interested in translation, sound and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her latest collection of poems is A Ma ...
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“Edge of Catastrophe” Guest Lecture by Roger Frie
none What does it mean to be both a social critic and a practicing psychologist? In view of the social and political crises we face today, this is surely one of the profession's most pressing challenges. This talk will draw on the early work of Erich ...
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Angela Tate on James Baldwin
none In the context of the First Year Success Common Read, we are delighted to be hosting a talk on James Baldwin by Angela Tate, writer, artist, scholar, and curator. Angela serves as the chief curator and director of collections at the Museum of Afric ...
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Palestine and Lebanon: A Discussion with Professor Ziad Majed
none "Students for Justice in Palestine" invites you to a discussion with AUP Professor Ziad Majed on the situation in Palestine and Lebanon today, after a year of war, destruction and what many legal experts, UN officials and international orga ...
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THE CONVOY: A CONVERSATION WITH BEATA UMUBEYI MAIRESSE
none Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The Convoy reflects on the act of bearing witness and the ...
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An Evening with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
none Please join us on the 22nd of January for a reading by poet, literary translator, and musician Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Lorrain writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese and is the author of several poetry collections and most recently a novel ...
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Discussing the Current Situation in Syria with Professor Ziad Majed
none After 54 years of brutal dictatorship and 14 years of revolution and war, the Assad regime in Syria has fallen. How did this happen and what is the situation today? What are the political challenges in this devastated country and what kind of transit ...