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Event Date: March 17th, 2025
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM PT
Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba
Please join us on March 17 from 4pm-5:30pm for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book "Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba," by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Professor Sabbagh-Khoury will be joined in conversation by Zeus Leonardo, Professor in the School of Education at UC Berkeley; and Keith Feldman, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chair for the new Palestinian and Arab Studies Program at UC Berkeley, will moderate.
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2020 Advanced Workshop in Climate Change Economics
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Alexandra Gillies, “Crude Intentions”
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Immigration and the American Ethos
A panel discussion on the book Immigration and the American Ethos, by Morris Levy, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California, and Matthew Wright, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.
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Election Manipulation
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Published March 10, 2020
Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial
Recorded on February 27, 2020, this “Authors Meet Critics” discussion focused on Professor Laura Eliza Pérez's book Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial (Duke University Press). Pérez, Professor of Ethnic Studies and and Chair of the Latinx Research Center, was joined by Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson.
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