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March 26, 2019

The Collecting Practices of Mariana Williamson de Coronel

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Part of the Global Race, Ethnicity & Migration (Global REM) Lecture Series "The Collecting Practices of Mariana Williamson de Coronel: tensions in the 19th century and 21st-century...

March 26, 2019

How One Collector Built History's Most Remarkable Jewish Library: David...

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"How One Collector Built History's Most Remarkable Jewish Library: David Oppenheim (1664-1736), Chief Rabbi of Prague" Joshua Teplitsky, History, Stony Brook University This is the story of...

March 29, 2019

Teach for Arabia: A Book Talk by Dr. Neha Vora

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Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in...

April 1, 2019

Presencing an Absence: Accountability and Memory in the Aftermath of the Armenian...

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Presented by Armen T. Marsoobian Cultural destruction is an integral component of the concept of genocide as first formulated by the legal scholar Raphael Lemkin. The erasure of most signs...

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