Fall 2025 MESALC SPEAKER SERIES
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Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Olin Whitney Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and codirector of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia. She is the author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society; The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology; and most recently Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post–9/11 America. There will be ample time for audience Q&A. This free event is open to the public event, and all are welcome to attend.
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Peter Beinart is editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, professor of journalism and political science at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and author of The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter. In this talk, Beinart will be in conversation with Jeffrey Grossman, Associate Professor of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. There will be ample time for audience Q&A.
Nau Hall is located at 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue. Free street parking is available nearby. Additional paid parking is available in the Central Grounds Garage, a ten-minute walk from Nau Hall.
This event is open to the public event, and all are welcome to attend.
The talk is hosted by the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, with co-sponsorships from the Jewish Studies Program, the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures, the Islamic Worlds Initiative, and the Forum on Religion & Democracy.