Almost 80 years to the day since its outbreak, top scholars from around the world will gather at Penn State's University Park campus to explore new ways of thinking about World War II. “World War II and the Middle East,” will take place Sept. 9 and 10 at various locations on campus. All events are free and open to the public.
The Center for Global Studies recently awarded more than $131,000 to faculty and students whose work advances research, studies and projects in global studies.
Tarek El-Ariss, associate professor and chair of Middle Eastern studies at Dartmouth College, will present “Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age” at 12:15 p.m. April 15 in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
Roopika Risam, assistant professor of English and English Education and coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies at Salem State University, will present “Insurgents of Academe: Historicizing Public Humanities in the African Dispora," at 12:15 p.m. April 8, in Room 102 of the Kern Building.
David Fieni, assistant professor of French at the State University of New York, Oneonta, will present “Dreyfus in Algeria," at 12:15 p.m. on April 1 in 102 Kern Building at University Park, as part of the Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series.
Monica Popescu, associate professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literature at McGill University, will present “Mythologies of Realism and Modernism: African Literature and the Cold War” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, March 25, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
Jonathan Eburne, associate professor of comparative literature, English, and French and Francophone studies at Penn State, will present “Book Talk: Outsider Theory” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, March 18, in 102 Kern Building at University Park.
Marília Librandi, visiting assistant professor of Brazilian studies at Princeton University, will present “Writing by Ear: The Aural Novel in Brazil” at 12:15 p.m. March 11 in Room 102 of the Kern Building.
The Center for Global Studies will present a film screening of "Human Flow" at 4 p.m. on March 26 in Lewis Katz Auditorium at University Park. The film gives a powerful visual expression to massive human migration. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, assistant professor of world Anglophone literature at Johns Hopkins University, will present “Between a Stone and a Hard Place: Stanlake Samkange's Turn to Philosophy” at 12:15 p.m. on Feb. 11 in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
Annette Damayanti Lienau, assistant professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, will present “Muslim ‘Racialization’ and the Conceptual Limits of the Arabophone: Translational Disjunctures and Comparative Horizons across the Global South,” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 4, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University park campus.
The Center for Global Studies will present a film screening of "Honor Diaries" at 7 p.m. on Feb. 13 in the Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, on the University Park campus of Penn State followed by a panel discussion.
Ethan Knapp, associate professor in the Department of English at Ohio State, will present “Revisiting the Rising of 1381: Allegory and Politics in the Late 14th Century” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
The Center for Global Studies at Penn State will host Srdja Popovic, activist, global thinker, and founder and executive director of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies, on Feb. 26 at University Park. Popovic will deliver a lecture titled “Laughtivism: The Power of Humor in Nonviolent Struggle” at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Katz Auditorium.
The Center for Global Studies will continue to host the Brown Bag Lecture Series this spring on select Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in 157 Burrowes Building on the University Park campus of Penn State. The lectures highlight faculty and graduate interdisciplinary research of global studies. All are welcome to attend and enjoy complimentary cookies and coffee.
