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Dr. Ussama Makdisi
The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions. For calendar year 2025, our spotlight is on Palestine in the world today.
The events in this series are being sponsored by the following: Center for Advanced Study; Center for African Studies; Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies; Center for Global Studies; Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies; Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies; Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity; European Union Center; Illinois Global Institute; LAS Global Studies; Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies; The Program in Arms Control & Domestic & International Security; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
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Co-sponsoring units house diverse perspectives, but all hold that a healthy university atmosphere requires discussion, debate, and dialogue.
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Title: "Why is Palestine Important?"
Speaker: Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies at UC Berkeley
Date: February 25, 2025
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana
Film Screening: Lyd
Date: March 27, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: 112 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana
Description: A story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world--what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become. A discussion led by Professor Laura Goffman, Department of History, will follow.
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Lyd
Title: Book Talk: Transnational Palestine with Nadim Bawalsa
Speaker: Dr. Nadim Bawalsa, an historian of modern Palestine. He holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from New York University.
Date: April 1, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual. To register for the talk, click here: https://tinyurl.com/yc85wda9
Description: Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936, an estimated 40,000 Palestinians lived outside geographic Palestine. Transnational Palestine is the first book to explore the history of Palestinian immigration to Latin America, the struggles Palestinian migrants faced to secure Palestinian citizenship in the interwar period, and the ways in which these challenges contributed to the formation of a Palestinian diaspora and to the emergence of Palestinian national consciousness.
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Nadim Bawalsa
Title: Exhibit, "The Art of Recreating Transnational Solidarity Against Global Apartheids”
Date: April 10-May 3, 2025
Time and date of Opening Reception: April 10, 2025; 5:30-7:30 pm
Title: "Turmoil and Solidarity: Being Palestinian in Champaign-Urbana in a time of genocide"
Date: April 11, 2025
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
Location: Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana
Speakers: Dua Aldasouqi, Muslim Action Committee (and others TBD)
Title: “Unmixing the Holy City: Religion, Politics, and Neighborhood Segregation in 19th-20th Century Jerusalem”
Speakers: Michelle Campos and Charles Anderson
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Michelle Campos
Michelle Campos is an associate professor of History and Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University. The author of Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth Century Palestine, Campos is currently completing a book on neighborhood life and intercommunal relations in 19th and early 20th century Jerusalem. She co-edited the translated memoirs of a Sephardi Jewish public figure in Palestine (Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870–1930: A Memoir by Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche, forthcoming with Brandeis University Press) and is co-editing a collaborative volume on “Reimagining Jewish Life in the Modern Middle East.”
Date: May 2, 2025
Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign
This event is co-sponsored by the Dept. of History and The Program in Jewish Culture & Society.