WSTAR Workshop with Dr. Valentine Moghadam

Valentine M. Moghadam is  a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. Moghadam’s areas of research are globalization, transnational feminist networks, civil society and citizenship, and gender and development in the Middle East and North Africa. Events of interest include: Thursday, April 9th Campus lecture: “Explaining Divergent Outcomes …

Applied Humanities Research Group

We will hold a planning meeting for our “applied humanities” research group. The project undertaken by this group will be family history in Cambodia in the wake of the genocide there a generation ago. It’s a tremendously compelling project that will be spearheaded by Dana Bourgerie (of Asian and Near Eastern Languages). Please attend if …

WSTAR Workshop with Dr. Valentine Moghadam

Valentine M. Moghadam is  a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. Moghadam’s areas of research are globalization, transnational feminist networks, civil society and citizenship, and gender and development in the Middle East and North Africa. Events of interest include: Thursday, April 9th Campus lecture: “Explaining Divergent Outcomes …

Colloquium: David Honey

David Honey of Asian and Near Eastern Languages, a prolific scholar of, among other things, sinology, the academic study of China. Always an interesting subject, it’s becoming an increasingly important one given China’s ascending place on the global stage.

Colloquium: Michael Call

Michael Call is a professor in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters. His interests are 17th-century French art and literature, the history of the book, theories of authorship, and the cultural history of risk, chance, and determinism. His colloquium will be titled: “How Does a Game Mean?”

African Worlds: Gaurav Desai

Gaurav Desai is Professor of English and African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. While on campus he will be featured at three events. On Thursday, he will give a lecture considering Mohandas Gandhi’s formative, early career in South Africa, focusing on his conceptions of race in the context of the long cultural exchange …