2012-2013 ASCH SEMINARS Monday 30 Jan 2012 4:15pm
"Narrative and Reconciliation in
the Karabakh Conflict"
BMC Carpenter 21
http://www.brynmawr.edu/campus/map.shtml
Dr. Rauf Garagozov
Leading Research Fellow
Center for Strategic Studies
Baku, Azerbaijan
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Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-perception in the Middle East
By Camelia Suleiman, Visiting Assistant Professor and Arabic Program Coordinator, Bryn Mawr College
The conflict between Israel and Palestine remains one of the most widely- and passionately-debated issues in the Middle East and in the field of international politics. An important part of this conflict is the dimension of self-perception of both Israelis and Palestinians caught up in its midst. Here, Camelia Suleiman, using her background in linguistic analysis, examines the interplay of language and identity, feminism and nationalism, and how the concepts of spatial and temporal boundaries affect self-perception. She does this through interviews with peace activists from a variety of backgrounds: Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, Jewish Israelis, as well as Palestinians from Ramallah, officially holders of Jordanian passports. By emphasizing the importance of these levels of official identity, Suleiman explores how self-perception is influenced, negotiated and manifested, and how place of birth and residence play a major role in this conflict.
Lots going on for Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Initiatives Jonathan Hyman.
His pictures of American reactions to 9/11 are on exhibit at Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Art Gallery in NYC. http://www.waldkimgallery.blogspot.com/
His pictures are also the focus of a show at Duke University: “Flesh & Metal, Bodies & Buildings: Works from Jonathan Hyman’s Archive of Vernacular Memorials.”
http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/hyman
And another honor: “Twin Towers Go Global is pleased to announce Jonathan Hyman as the first confirmed jury member for our ongoing open call, a competition where people imagine the Twin Towers rebuilt around the world.”
http://www.twintowersgoglobal.org/wtc/2011/08/photographer-jonathan-hyman-joins-jury-of-twin-towers-go-global-open-call/
Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko
announce their new book with Oxford University Press
Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us (click for Oxford University Press web site)
The book identifies twelve mechanisms of radicalization nested in three levels–
individuals, small groups, and mass publics–
and shows these mechanisms at work in People’s Will terrorism against the Russian czar
as well as in leftist terrorism of the 1970s and recent jihadist terrorism.
4. Sumanasiri Liyanage. (sumane_l@yahoo.com)
Post-War Challenges and Opportunities: How could diaspora community get involved? Work-in-progress paper. An earlier version presented 26 September 2010 at the School of Oriental and African studies, University of London.
Permalink Diasporas in Home Country Politics
Notice the new section of the Asch web site! “Diasporas in Home Country Politics” is the new tab at the top of the Asch home page.
Diasporas have been studied for their effects on the economics, politics, and culture of their host countries, usually Western countries. Much less attention has been given to the effects of diasporas on their countries of origin, and especially little attention has been given to diaspora effects on the politics of their countries of origin. This new section of the Asch web site has been initiated to bring together research on precisely this topic: the power of diasporas in home country politics.
Everyone is invited to submit work of this kind–your own or others’–to Clark McCauley (cmccaule@brynmawr.edu). Titles, abstracts, and author emails should be submitted for posting in the new section. The goal is to develop an interdisciplinary subculture that will forward understanding of the power of diasporas, for good and for ill, in home country politics.
The impetus for this new initiative is recent work by Maria Koinova; her three papers already posted provide a fast start for the new section!
Ethnopolitical conflict often begins with a social movement challenging state policies. Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are the largest component of the pro-life movement, yet they are the least understood by scholars and the public alike. I will discuss new data on the number and scope of CPCs in the United States, and analyze how their growth stands to dramatically change the terms of the abortion debate.
Dr. Ziad Munson
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Lehigh University
Monday 1 November 2010
Carpenter 21
4:15pm
Bryn Mawr College
Directions: http://www.brynmawr.edu/campus/visiting.shtml
An interview with Boris Berezovsky explores the political uses of ethnopolitical conflict in Russia. The dynamics referred to in the interview are interesting whatever you think about its accuracy. The interview was translated from Russian by Sophia Moskalenko; translator’s notes appear in brackets. Freedom Radio is a private non-profit news media financed by the U.S. Congress. It transmits to over twenty countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucus, and Central Asia.
Continue reading Jujitsu Politics in Putin’s Russia?
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CONFLICT AND VISUAL CULTURE PROJECT Click on any link to visit the artist's online gallery.
Kudos: Asch Visual Culture Site exhibitor KELLY CREEDON was named Creative Activist of the Year for her work on the documentary project, "We Shall Not Be Moved", by the organization ArtCorps. (ArtCorps fosters innovation and creativity in order to mobilize communities to improve their environmental, health and social conditions.)
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