November 2015
Contemporary Iraq: Walls and Circuits
Global Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies will be hosting an event titled, “CONTEMPORARY IRAQ: WALLS AND CIRCUITS.” Mona Damluji, Stanford University: “Baghdad’s Deep Dilemma: Urban Segregation Under Occupation” Paulo Hilu Pinto, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil): “Remaking Transnational Shiism in Contemporary Iraq: Economic and Religious Geographies on the Pilgrim’s Road to Karbala” Paul Amar, Global Studies: Moderator
Find out more »February 2016
Probing “Presence”: Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa
TALK: Lorena Rizzo (University of Bielefeld & Harvard University) Probing “Presence” – Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa The presentation starts from research conducted in the Western Cape Archives in 2012/3. While working on a collection of photographic albums produced in a Cape Town convict station in the late 19th and early 20th century, I came across a pair of photographs portraying a convict who bore my surname. I use this archival coincidence or curiosity as an entry point…
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