Join us for a free screening of the Academy Award-nominated film The Voice of Hind Rajab, followed by a panel discussion with Professors Farha Abbasi, Waseem El-Rayes, and Salah Hassan.

This powerful cinematic portrait is based on real call recordings of five-year-old Hind Rajab to the Palestine Red Crescent during the bombing in Gaza.

Join PeaceWorks on Campus for a powerful conversation with Israeli and Palestinian peace builders who are challenging the status quo and working toward a better future. Bringing firsthand experience and deep insight from the ground, these peace builders will share their vision for coexistence and discuss how emerging leaders in America can help uplift and support their efforts. This is a unique opportunity to hear personal stories, ask questions, and explore meaningful ways to engage in dialogue on this topic.

Join us for a talk by Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis University) on the lives and poetry of Yanagawa Seigan and Koran, two influential nineteenth-century Japanese poets who wrote in literary Sinitic. The talk explores their travels, poetic networks, and engagement with a Japan facing major political and cultural change at the end of the Tokugawa period.

The event will also feature a virtual appearance by Jonathan Chaves, distinguished translator of Chinese poetry, who will read selections from both poets.

This workshop is led by Asian and Asian American researchers, youth, and educators who conducted a community-based participatory project that focused on co-designing and co-leading an intergenerational learning space with Asian American youth for immigrant children and families. Presenters will showcase their work through a video and discuss their research article and experiences leading workshops. This workshop invites attendees to reimagine education and educational research in ways that center the voice, knowledge, and multilingual assets of Asian and Asian American families.   

Join us for an exclusive Zoom talk with Jeff Albright, President of YANMAR USA and MSU alumnus (Japanese & Finance)! Hear how Jeff built an international career across Asia and now leads large-scale operations in North America, and gain insights into global business, leadership, and international career pathways. 

Free and open to anyone interested in global careers!

Registration required.

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This talk examines the ways that the 20th century cookbook, The Way to a Man's Heart: The Settlement Cook Book, became a beloved Jewish icon. Filled with non-kosher recipes, the cookbook has been called "unabashedly Jewish" and "a Jewish Joy of Cooking" by generations of reviewers and cooks, yet dismissed as Jewish "by association only" by some historians. Nevertheless, the heirloom quality of this book transcended generations leading to the perception of the book as a Jewish, albeit not Judaic, standard. Rubel will analyze the ways in which a cookbook can be coded as Jewish, despite having no direct references to Jews or Judaism.

Nora Rubel, Chair of the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester, teaches and writes on a wide variety of topics related to gender, race, and ethnicity in American religion, particularly in relation to food and popular culture. She is the author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Columbia University Press 2009), co-editor of Religion, Food and Eating in North America (CUP 2014) and Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family (Rutgers University Press 2024). Her latest book, Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of The Settlement Cook Book is due out from Columbia University Press in Spring of 2026.

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Does Islam Have a Liberation Theology?", with multiple panels and keynote presentations by Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame) and Sylvia Chan-Malik (Rutgers University). Webinar registration.

Rhea Rahman (Assistant Professor of Anthropology Brooklyn College (CUNY). An ethnography of Islamic Relief (IR), the largest Islamic NGO based in the West, Racializing the Ummah explores how a Muslim organization can do good in a world that defines Muslimness as less than human. Rooted in more than a decade of international research, her study on the organizations projects, methods, and limitations reveals how racial capitalism permeates all aspects of humanitarianism and paints a frank, nuanced portrait of the constraints Islamic aid entities face in the effort to disentangle themselves from neocolonialism and Western hegemony.