tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797742009153395482.post-81885934055832374282008-03-08T17:07:00.000-08:002008-03-09T20:25:06.187-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-size:180%;">SCHEDULE</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Monday, March 17</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >On Empire and (Re)Colonization in the Middle East</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">5 pm, Austin Hall, West Classroom</span><a href="http://hamiddabashi.com/"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Hamid Dabashi</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Professor of Iranian Studies, Columbia University, and <span>Author</span><span> of </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire </span><span>(forthcoming)</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><a href="http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ehistory/facultyPage.cgi?id=32">Roger Owen</a><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University, and Author, <span style="font-style: italic;">State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Moderator: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Duncan Kennedy</span><span style="font-family:arial;">, Harvard Law School</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">[Refreshments served before second panel]</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Resisting Empire</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">7 pm, Austin Hall, West Classroom</span><br /><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/faculty/lutz.shtml"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Catherine Lutz</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, and Author, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century</span><br /><a href="http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/staff.asp?action=show&amp;person=59"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Karma Nabulsi</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />University Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford University, and Author, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Tuesday, March 18</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Accumulation through Crisis: Global Stagflation and the New Wars</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">3 pm, Pound Hall, Room 107</span><br /><a href="http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Jonathan Nitzan</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Professor of Political Economy, York University, and Co-Author, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >The Global Political Economy of Israel</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Discussant: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Talha Syed</span><span style="font-family:arial;">, Harvard Law School </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Empire and Nation-Building</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">5 pm, Pound Hall, Room 107</span><br /><a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/nfeldman/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Noah Feldman</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Author, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation-Building</span><br /><a href="http://duncankennedy.net/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Duncan Kennedy</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School, and Author, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >A Critique of Adjudication</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Wednesday, March 19</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >US Foreign Policy and Intervention in the Middle East</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">12 pm, Austin Hall, North Classroom</span><br /><a href="http://www.bu.edu/polisci/people/faculty/gendzier/gendzier.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Irene Gendzier</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Professor of Political Science, Boston University, and Author, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East</span><br /><a href="http://howardzinn.org/default/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=11&amp;Itemid=35"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Howard Zinn</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Historian and Author, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >A People's History of the United States</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >[2:30-6:30 -- Rally in Harvard Yard, march to rally on Boston Common]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Film: Iraq in Fragments</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">7 pm, Langdell Hall, South Classroom</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Screening of James Longley's</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > <a href="http://www.iraqinfragments.com/">Iraq in Fragments</a>,</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> 2007 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature<br />Discussant: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Faras Adel</span>, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Brought to you by: Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left / HLS Peace / Justice for Palestine at HLS / National Lawyers' Guild at HLS</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Co-Sponsored by Association for Justice in the Middle East and the KSG Arab Caucus</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/797742009153395482-8188593405583237428?l=www.confrontingempire.com'/></div>Natenate.ela@gmail.com1