Directed by Shabari Rao. the theatre company is currently on tour from Bangalore, India.

A devised theater piece about childhood sexual abuse, its enduring effects into adulthood,and the social complicity that perpetuates it.

 

Sponsored by The Residential College in the Arts and Humanities

Book discussion on the book by Khaled A. Beydoun, led by Dr. Nazita Lajevardi (MSU Political Science).

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.

 

Muslim Journeys Book Club: American Islamophobia by Khaled Beydoun.

Discussion with Nazita Lajevardi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science

The term "Islamophobia" may be fairly new, but irrational fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims is anything but. Though many speak of Islamophobia's roots in racism, have we considered how anti-Muslim rhetoric is rooted in our legal system?

Using his unique lens as a critical race theorist and law professor, Khaled A. Beydoun captures the many ways in which law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the frightening resurgence of Islamophobia in the United States. Beydoun charts its long and terrible history, from the plight of enslaved African Muslims in the antebellum South and the laws prohibiting Muslim immigrants from becoming citizens to the ways the war on terror assigns blame for any terrorist act to Islam and the myriad trials Muslim Americans face in the Trump era. He passionately argues that by failing to frame Islamophobia as a system of bigotry endorsed and emboldened by law and carried out by government actors, U.S. society ignores the injury it inflicts on both Muslims and non-Muslims. Through the stories of Muslim Americans who have experienced Islamophobia across various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines, Beydoun shares how U.S. laws shatter lives, whether directly or inadvertently. And with an eye toward benefiting society as a whole, he recommends ways for Muslim Americans and their allies to build coalitions with other groups. Like no book before it, American Islamophobia offers a robust and genuine portrait of Muslim America then and now.

 

By Kyle Greenwalt is an associate professor in the MSU Department of Teacher Education

This brownbag session will explore continuities in Confucian and Deweyan political and ethical sensibilities—as well as inviting dialogue around the future of Chinese-Western relationships.

May of 2019 will mark the 100th anniversary of John Dewey's trip to China—a trip where Dewey spent nearly two years travelling, lecturing, and learning in a country then undergoing a profound process of cultural upheaval. It was within this context that Cai Yuanpei, the president of Beijing University, referred to Dewey as a "second Confucius." Now, one hundred years later, intercultural dialogue about the meaning and limits of the democratic ethos has emerged as a new generation of Confucian scholars survey the international cultural and political landscape.
 

Presenter: Jennifer L. Fluri is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

This presentation provides an overview of the US-led economic development projects and programs in Afghanistan that focused on increasing
women's education, political and economic participation in society. This overview includes a critical examination of the challenges, opportunities,
and failures of these interventions, and the limited opportunities for women in Taliban controlled contemporary Afghanistan.
Jennifer L. Fluri is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is a political geographer interested in gender, geopolitics, international assistance, economic development, and conflict in Afghanistan. She has published over thirty peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her publications also include three co-authored books and one co-edited book. She is the co-author of The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and
other American-Afghan Entanglements, published in 2017 by University of Georgia Press as part of the Geographies of Social Justice series. She is one of four co-authors of the 2017 book Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context published by Routledge, and co-author of Engendering Development: Capitalism and Inequality in the Global Economy. She is also a co-editor of Critical Geographies of Migration Handbook published in 2019 by
Edward Elgar Press. Her current research project examines gender, security, and development in Afghanistan with a focus on Afghan women's leadership. This  project has been funded by the National Science Foundation. She is the co-editor of the Gender, Feminisms and Geography book series at West Virginia University Press, and she serves on the editorial board for the journal of Political Geography and the journal of Cultural Geography. She received a Fulbright
Fellowship in 2020 to examine the experiences of young Afghans seeking higher education in India, and will begin this project in 2022. In Colorado, she codirects the CU-Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative (www.colorado.edu/bahri), a community-based service-research project that provides information for individuals and organizations seeking, living in, or caring about affordable housing.

This Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG) event is co-sponsored by the Department of
Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, College of Social Science, the Visiting
International Professional Program (VIPP), and the Asian Studies Center at MSU.
Special thanks to the support from the Center of Gender in Global Context and the Muslim

Discrimination against Muslim Americans has soared over the last two decades with hostility growing especially acute since 2016 - in no small part due to targeted attacks by policymakers and media. Outsiders at Home offers the first systematic, empirically driven examination of status of Muslim Americans in US democracy, evaluating the topic from a variety of perspectives. To what extent do Muslim Americans face discrimination by legislators, the media, and the general public? What trends do we see over time, and how have conditions shifted? What, if anything, can be done to reverse course? Answering each of these questions, Nazita Lajevardi shows that the rampant, mostly negative discussion of Muslims in media and national discourse has yielded devastating political and social consequences.

Please register in advance at the Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia registration page. 

 

Sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program and MSU Library

the original film that launched the Japanese horror film boom of the 2000's! Watch a certain spooky video and you will die in seven days... This is the film that Hollywood remade as The Ring!

Bring your lunch and get familiar with the traditions, cuisin and sighseeing of Uzbekistan

Bring your lunch and get familiar with the traditions, cuisin and sighseeing of Uzbekistan.

Bring your lunch and get familiar with the traditions, cuisin and sighseeing of Uzbekistan