Ralph Bunche Institute

“From Ancient Seaport to Medieval Crossroads: One Era Passes, Another Begins”
2022-10-27 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Segal Theater, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
October 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Free

CIRCLE FOR LATE ANTIQUE AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES PRESENTS:
“From Ancient Seaport to Medieval Crossroads: One Era Passes, Another Begins”
A lecture by:
Richard Bulliet
Professor Emeritus, Middle Eastern History
Columbia University
This is the inaugural lecture for the Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, which seeks to engage scholars working on the late antique and medieval periods of Eurasia and Afro-Asia in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue.
Prof. Bulliet’s lecture will focus on the degree of continuity between late antique and the medieval period and across geographies. The transportation infrastructure of the southern portion of the antique world shifted from maritime trade and liquid cargoes to camel caravans and dry cargoes. This shift signaled the passage from Late Antiquity to Medieval times. The chronology of the shift correlates with the geographic spread of one-humped camel herding, which accelerated after the Arab conquests.
Richard W. Bulliet is Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University. His publications concentrate on the history of Islam (Islam: The View from the Edge and Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran) and the history of premodern transportation (The Camel and the Wheel and The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions). He is also the lead author of the eighth edition of a world history textbook (The Earth and Its Peoples) now in preparation. During his career at Columbia, he directed The Middle East Institute for twelve years and taught Middle East History, History of Technology, and History of Domestic Animals.
John Torpey, Presidential Professor of History and Sociology and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, will give a short introduction.
The Circle is convened by Parvaneh Pourshariati, Associate Professor of History at the New York City of College of Technology, CUNY.
The Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies is based out of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The Circle gratefully acknowledges the co-sponsorship by the History, Classics and Archeology Programs and the Middle East and Middle Eastern Americans Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Register the Zoom webinar: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XUYYU9O2RsudaQiTq95gBg
RSVP for the in person event to: circleforlateantiquemedieval@gmail.com

“Post-Roe America: Women and Human Rights”
2022-10-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual, bit.ly/3QVelvP, New York
The historical record is marked by voids: elided events; disappeared people; erased accounts; marginalized communities. So is our own era.

The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (The Graduate Center—City University of New York), in association with the School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Stockton University), and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (New York University), offers a year-long virtual series, The Marginalized and the Erased, to tackle a number of those blank spots.

Please join us for the second of the series:

27 October 2022
“Post-Roe America: Women and Human Rights”

A challenging conversation about the loss of bodily autonomy and human rights

With the extinction of abortion access as a constitutional right, obstetric care has become a legal labyrinth and cybersecurity for individuals has emerged as a serious concern. Frontline expert Dr Lisa Harris will address the thorny question of how the SCOTUS decision shapes medical practice. And cybersecurity experts Eva Galperin and Jennifer Granick will plumb the weaponization by law enforcement and ordinary citizen bounty hunters of women’s telephone call histories, browser histories, text messages, emails, location data, and payment records. Lisa Harris is Associate Chair of Ob/Gyn at the University of Michigan Medical School; her research sits at the intersection of clinical obstetrical and gynecological care and law, policy, and politics. Eva Galperin, at the forefront of cybersecurity research, policy, and practice, is dedicated to providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world; Galperin serves as Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Jennifer Granick is a lawyer and prize-winning author. As the Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel with the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, Granick litigates, speaks, and writes about privacy, security, technology, and constitutional rights.
Chair: Marion Kaplan

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The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, The Graduate Center—City University of New York
In association with:
The School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

Agential Power and Structural Power, Causal and Non-Causal
2022-10-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Political Science Lounge, GC Room 5200, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Agential Power and Structural Power, Causal and Non-Causal Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)Thursday, October 13, 6:30 p.m. (ET)Political Science Lounge, GC Room 5200 And online via ZoomCo-sponsored by the GC Political Theory Colloquium
We are excited to welcome political philosopher Arash Abizadeh as our second colloquium speaker of Fall 2022, in collaboration with the GC Political Theory Colloquium. The talk will be followed by a Q&A with the speaker.This is an in-person event that will allow for virtual participation via Zoom. The in-person talk will be followed by a reception with wine and light snacks.If you plan to attend virtually, please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining.Members of the public who wish to attend should email us. They may enter the GC if they show proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 7 days prior to the visit.

Abstract
Many theorists of social power assume that agents’ power operates only by way of their intentional actions and their causal role in effecting outcomes. The former assumption is true of agential power, the latter of causal power, but neither is true of the social power of agents in general. Distinguishing between agential and structural power, I defend a notion of structural power as a type of non-intentional, passive power agents have in virtue of their position in a social structure and independently of their intentional actions. Distinguishing between causal and non-causal power, I also defend a non-causal type of power by which agents effect or elicit outcomes without causing them. Agential and structural power, moreover, are internally related: structural power is in certain contexts latently agential.
Speaker Bio

Arash Abizadeh is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. His research focusses on democratic theory; democracy’s relation to identity, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism; immigration and border control; social and political power; and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, particularly Hobbes and Rousseau.

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Must the Subaltern Speak Publicly? Political Liberalism and the Ethics of Fighting Severe Injustice
2022-09-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual, bit.ly/3QVelvP, New York
Must the Subaltern Speak Publicly?Political Liberalism and the Ethics of Fighting Severe InjusticeAlasia Nuti (University of York)Friday, September 30, 12:00 p.m. (ET)Online via Zoom
We are excited to welcome political theorist Alasia Nuti as our first colloquium speaker of Fall 222. The talk will be followed by a Q&A with the speaker.This is an online event. Please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining. Follow this link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrduyorzMjH9cPZBtY09mMIT_fHloHNkgd

Abstract
The victims of severe injustice, but no other group in society, are allowed to employ disruption and violence to seek political change. This article argues for this conclusion from within Rawlsian political liberalism, which, however, has been criticised for allegedly imposing public reason’s suffocating norms of civility on the oppressed. It develops a novel view of the applicability of public reason in non-ideal circumstances – the ‘no self-sacrificed view’ – that is focused on the excessive costs of following public reason when suffering from severe injustice. On this view, those treated in what Rawls describes as less than a reasonably just way are relieved of the duty of public reason and therefore entitled to employ disruption and violence. Turning to the requirements that actually apply to the oppressed, the article also shows that, when properly developed, political liberalism offers original and nuanced normative guidance on how to fight severe injustice uncivilly.
Speaker Bio
Alasia Nuti is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Theory at the University of York. She received her PhD, which was awarded the Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for the Study of Inequality and Social Justice from the Political Studies Association, from the University of Cambridge. Her first book “Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Injustice, Gender, and Redress” (Cambridge University Press, 2019) received the Honourable Mention from the ECPR Prize in Political Theory in 2021. In 2022, Alasia was awarded the Early Career Prize from the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought. She is currently working on a monograph (Oxford University Press, under contract) on a revised account of political liberalism and the task of containment, which is co-authored with Gabriele Badano.

You are also welcome to attend an upcoming event at the Graduate Center that was co-organized by some of our CGEP fellows: Feminism in Crisis? Philosophical Interventions, CUNY Graduate Student Conference, Oct. 1, 2022, 9am-6pm, Room 5414, and online. Robin Dembroff (Yale University) will keynote. Register to attend here.

Visit our YouTube page to watch videos of past events, like our Facebook page,and follow our twitter @global_ethics. CGEP Director: Carol C. Gould. Distinguished Professor, Philosophy and Political Science,The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNYThe Center for Global Ethics and Politics is part of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Fall Events Center for Global Ethics and Politics
2022-09-30 12:00 - 13:00
As the Fall 2022 semester begins, the Center for Global Ethics and Politics would like to update everyone on our schedule and invite you to participate in the Center’s ongoing activities. This fall, the Center will host four exciting talks — please mark your calendars!

Alasia Nuti (University of York, UK)Must the Subaltern Speak Publicly? Political Liberalism and the Ethics of Fighting Severe InjusticeFriday, September 30 @ 12:00pm (ET), via Zoom Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)Agential Power and Structural Power, Causal and Non-CausalThursday, October 13 @ 6:30pm (ET),In-person at the GC Political Science Lounge, Room 5200 Co-sponsored by the GC Political Theory Colloquium Ingrid Robeyns (University of Utrecht)Limitarianism from a Global PerspectiveTuesday, November 15 @ 6:30pm (ET)In person at the GC, Room TBA Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò (Georgetown University)Title TBATuesday, November 29 @ 6:30pm (ET)In-person at the GC, Room TBA
For the talk that will take place online, an invitation will be sent out in advance with a Zoom registration link. We hope to broadcast the in-person talks simultaneously over Zoom.In case you missed our Spring 2022 events — excellent sessions on “Ethics of AI and Health Care: Towards a Substantive Human Rights Framework” with Matthew Liao; “Protest, Silencing, and Epistemic Activism,” with José Medina; “Global Injustice, Moral Obligation and the Political Action Paradox” with Elizabeth Kahn; and “Women are Women,” with Carol Hay–you can catch up on the videos of these talks and all of our past events at our YouTube channel or by visiting our Center website. You can also find our podcasts there.This past spring, our Center Director, Prof. Carol Gould, published an article on “Socializing the Means of Free Development” (Philosophical Topics, Vol. 48, no. 2 (2022): 81-103). https://www.jstor.org/stable/48652122. She also presented her paper “From Fraternity to Feminist Activist Solidarities: Confronting Structural Injustice and Gendered Authoritarianism” at the Conference on Feminist Politics for Today (Honoring the Work of Bat-Ami Bar On) at Binghamton University, May 7, 2022.We are happy to report some news about our former fellows: Jonathan Kwan has taken up a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dahbi, and Gregory Slack was appointed to that rank in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Sid Issar has started a position as Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Louisville. Rachel Brown, currently Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, recently had her book manuscript Unsettled Labors: Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel accepted for publication by Duke University Press, and Jesse Spafford, Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, had his book Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny accepted by Cambridge University Press. Current Graduate Fellow Callum Zavos MacRae recently published an article commenting on a piece by Jesse Spafford which had appeared in the Journal of Value Inquiry in 2020. MacRae’s article is entitled “Communists, Anarchists, and Suckers: A Reply to Spafford on ‘Conditional Exchange’” Journal of Value Inquiry, 2021. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10790-021-09837-7. Looking ahead, please hold the following dates for our spring colloquia: Seyla Benhabib (Columbia Law), “The Crisis of International Law and its Implications for the Refugee Convention” Tuesday, February 7, 6:30pm-8:15pm. Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado Boulder), Wednesday, March 8, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Co-sponsored with the Philosophy Colloquium and the Marx Wartofsky Lecture. Briana Toole (Claremont McKenna and the Princeton University Center for Human Values), Tuesday, March 28, 6:30pm-8:15pm.Laura Kane (Worcester State University and former CGEP Graduate Fellow), Tuesday, April 18, 6:30pm-8:15pm. Stay up to date with what’s happening at the Center by following us on twitter @global_ethics, like us on Facebook, or subscribe to our mailing list here. Best wishes for a fine start to the semester, and we look forward to your participation in our activities here at the Center!

Visit our YouTube page to watch videos of past events, like our Facebook page,and follow our twitter @global_ethics. CGEP Director: Carol C. Gould. Distinguished Professor, Philosophy and Political Science,The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNYThe Center for Global Ethics and Politics is part of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

“Forgotten, Ignored, and Distorted Histories of Romani People: Past and Present”
2022-09-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual, bit.ly/3QVelvP, New York
The historical record is marked by voids: elided events; disappeared people; erased accounts; marginalized communities.

The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (Graduate Center—City University of New York), in association with the School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Stockton University) and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (New York University), offers a year-long virtual series, The Marginalized and the Erased, to tackle a number of those blank spots.

Please join us on September 29, 2022 at 12:00 noon (EDT) for the first of the series:

“Forgotten, Ignored, and Distorted Histories of Romani People: Past and Present”

Groundbreaking scholars Ethel Brooks, Ioanida Costache, and László Csősz move between past and present as they plumb the history of anti-Roma racist violence, and the erasure of that history even as the violence persists. Drawing upon testimonies and documents, their presentations reveal individual, communal, and institutional obstacles to remembrance and education. Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, award-winning scholar Prof. Ethel Brooks serves (among many positions) as Chair of the Board of the European Roma Rights Center. Dr Ioanida Costache, recipient of a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses on Romani historical trauma and artistic practice. Prof. László Csősz, historian and senior archivist at the National Archives of Hungary is also a Claims Conference University Partnership in Holocaust Studies Senior Lecturer at the ELTE University in Budapest. His current project explores the wartime history of the Hungarian Roma.
Chair: Debórah Dwork

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The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, The Graduate Center—City University of New York
In association with:
Center for Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center—City University of New York
The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, Education Outreach Section, Outreach Division, Department of Global Communications, United Nations

The School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

Suppression of Self-Determination
2022-09-21 13:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Launch of a report into Spain’s influence on the tools of repression used to silence activists around the world.

September 21, 2022
1PM – 3PM EST CUNY Graduate Center365 5th Ave, New York NY 10016

A light lunch will be served

Registration: unpo@unpo.org

Besieged Voices from Ukraine (part 2)
2022-06-23 12:00 - 13:00
Please join this event organized by our Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.

Date: June 23/2022

Time: 12-1pm EDT

Registration link: bit.ly/3xj5Dzd

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has caused the death and injury of thousands, the forced flight of millions, and the physical destruction of cities and towns. Poet Iya Kiva, journalist Olga Tokariuk, and art historian expert on Jewish heritage in Ukraine, Eugeny Kotlyar, will address the complexities of lives disrupted and the experience of unfolding war from the perspectives of their three professions. Please join us to learn from them.
Co-Chairs: Natalya Lazar and Elissa Bemporad.

PANEL DISCUSSION RE-EXAMINING THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORKS ON MIGRATION
2022-05-05 12:00 - 13:30
An Initiative to Bridge Scholarly Efforts on the Study of Human Rights

Invites you to the second event of the Spring 2022 series:

PANEL DISCUSSION
RE-EXAMINING THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORKS ON MIGRATIONDate: Thursday, May 5 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m (EDT)

Register Here Via Zoom

Sponsored by:

Women are Women by Carol Hay (UMass Lowell)
2022-04-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Graduate Center, Room 5302, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Women are Women
Carol Hay (UMass Lowell)
Thursday, April 28, 6:30 p.m. (ET)
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5382
And online via Zoom
This week, we are excited to welcome feminist philosopher Carol Hay as our fourth and final colloquium speaker of Spring 2022.
This is an in-person event that will allow for virtual participation via Zoom. The in-person talk will be followed by a reception with wine and light snacks.
In-person attendance is restricted to members of the Graduate Center community. Members of the public are encouraged to participate virtually via Zoom. If you plan to attend virtually, please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining.
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Abstract
Who counts as a woman? Is there some set of core experiences distinctive of womanhood, some shared set of adventures and exploits that every woman will encounter on her journey from diapers to the grave? The relatively recent visibility of and sensitivity to the experiences of trans people gives us new reason to return to questions that feminists and other gender theorists have been grappling with for decades. These questions take on new urgency in light of the increasing violence and discrimination trans people face across the world—in one of the most recent instances of this discrimination, for example, Ukrainian trans women are reportedly being denied passage out of the country, despite their legal status as women and the imminent danger they face at the hands of Russia’s transphobic policies, because they are being misgendered as men.
According to the account I defend, womanhood is best understood as a family resemblance concept. I propose a normative reading of this view that recognizes that decisions about which features are taken to make up paradigmatic cases of womanhood are fundamentally political. This makes possible a conception of womanhood that does not continue to center the experiences of traditionally femme, non-disabled, straight cis white women, while simultaneously making sense of actual historical failures in this regard.
I’ll argue that when a TERF complains that trans women haven’t had the same experiences as “real” women who were assigned female at birth, what she’s really saying is, “Trans women haven’t had the same experiences as women like me.” If 30-plus years of intersectional feminism has taught us anything, it’s that this is precisely the move that feminists need to stop making.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Carol Hay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her most recent book Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution (W.W. Norton & Co., 2020, 2022) has been called “a crisp, well-informed primer on feminist theory” by Publisher’s Weekly and “a winning mix of scholarship and irreverence” by Kirkus Reviews. Dr. Hay’s academic work focuses primarily on issues in analytic feminism, liberal social and political philosophy, oppression studies, Kantian ethics, and the philosophy of sex and love. Her 2013 book Kantianism, Liberalism, & Feminism: Resisting Oppression received the American Philosophical Association’s Gregory Kavka/UCI Prize in Political Philosophy. Her 2019 op-ed “Who Counts as a Woman?” received the American Philosophical Association’s Public Philosophy Op-Ed Prize. Dr. Hay’s public philosophy has appeared in venues such as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Aeon magazine, and IAI News.
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and follow our twitter @global_ethics.
CGEP Director: Carol C. Gould. Distinguished Professor, Philosophy and Political Science,
The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY
The Center for Global Ethics and Politics is part of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

CGEP: Carol Hay on "Women are Women"
2022-04-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Graduate Center, Room 5302, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Carol Hay (UMass Lowell)Thursday, April 28, 6:30 p.m. (ET)CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5382And online via Zoom
We are excited to welcome feminist philosopher Carol Hay as our fourth and final colloquium speaker of Spring 2022. This is an in-person event that will allow for virtual participation via Zoom. The in-person talk will be followed by a reception with wine and light snacks.In-person attendance is restricted to members of the Graduate Center community. Members of the public are encouraged to participate virtually via Zoom. If you plan to attend virtually, please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining.

Abstract
Who counts as a woman? Is there some set of core experiences distinctive of womanhood, some shared set of adventures and exploits that every woman will encounter on her journey from diapers to the grave? The relatively recent visibility of and sensitivity to the experiences of trans people gives us new reason to return to questions that feminists and other gender theorists have been grappling with for decades. These questions take on new urgency in light of the increasing violence and discrimination trans people face across the world—in one of the most recent instances of this discrimination, for example, Ukrainian trans women are reportedly being denied passage out of the country, despite their legal status as women and the imminent danger they face at the hands of Russia’s transphobic policies, because they are being misgendered as men.
According to the account I defend, womanhood is best understood as a family resemblance concept. I propose a normative reading of this view that recognizes that decisions about which features are taken to make up paradigmatic cases of womanhood are fundamentally political. This makes possible a conception of womanhood that does not continue to center the experiences of traditionally femme, non-disabled, straight cis white women, while simultaneously making sense of actual historical failures in this regard.
I’ll argue that when a TERF complains that trans women haven’t had the same experiences as “real” women who were assigned female at birth, what she’s really saying is, “Trans women haven’t had the same experiences as women like me.” If 30-plus years of intersectional feminism has taught us anything, it’s that this is precisely the move that feminists need to stop making.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Carol Hay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her most recent book Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution (W.W. Norton & Co., 2020, 2022) has been called “a crisp, well-informed primer on feminist theory” by Publisher’s Weekly and “a winning mix of scholarship and irreverence” by Kirkus Reviews. Dr. Hay’s academic work focuses primarily on issues in analytic feminism, liberal social and political philosophy, oppression studies, Kantian ethics, and the philosophy of sex and love. Her 2013 book Kantianism, Liberalism, & Feminism: Resisting Oppression received the American Philosophical Association’s Gregory Kavka/UCI Prize in Political Philosophy. Her 2019 op-ed “Who Counts as a Woman?” received the American Philosophical Association’s Public Philosophy Op-Ed Prize. Dr. Hay’s public philosophy has appeared in venues such as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Aeon magazine, and IAI News.

“Fleeing a Home, Seeking a Home: Jewish Refugees in Modern Times”
2022-04-28 12:00 - 13:30
In the thick of a refugee crisis, with an official count of 82.4 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (GC–CUNY) and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (NYU) continue to offer a year-long series that tackles historical and current cases.

Please join us on Thursday, 28 April 2022. 12:00-1:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time):
“Fleeing a Home, Seeking a Home: Jewish Refugees in Modern Times”

This panel grapples with refugee Jews displaced by war in three different geopolitical contexts: Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Profs Jeff Veidlinger, Eliyana Adler, and Shay Hazkani recapture lost voices of displacement and rethink the meaning of “refugee” as they explore the experiences of Ukrainian Jews who left their homes in the wake of anti-Jewish violence unleashed during the Russian Civil War; Polish Jews who, in the midst of the Holocaust, fled the Germans and were deported by the Soviets to Central Asia; and of Moroccan Jews, who immigrated to Israel shortly after the establishment of the Jewish state. Chair: Prof. Elissa Bemporad.
This event is hosted in association with The Holocaust and The United Nations Outreach Programme, Outreach Division, Department of Global Communications, United Nations.

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The End of Peace: How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine is Transforming Europe and Transatlantic Relations
2022-04-26 12:00 - 14:00
The Otto and Fran Walter Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, April 26, at 12:00 noon EST At this critical moment in history, political scientist Ivan Krastev helps us understand how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacts the balance of power in Europe, transatlantic relations, and the future of democracy. How does the war change existing divisions, and what should the role of NATO, and by extension the U.S. government, be? Krastev, author of the recent New York Times op-ed “We Are All Living in Putin’s World Now,” sheds light on these questions as the situation changes rapidly on the ground. Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna, and the author of The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (with Stephen Holmes), about the backsliding of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989, among other books. He speaks with John Torpey, professor of sociology and history and director of the EU Studies Center.

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The International Criminal Court at 20: What Next for International Criminal Justice?
2022-04-22 12:00 - 13:30 | CCNY Downtown Auditorium, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States
The International Criminal Court at 20: What Next for International Criminal Justice? on April 22, from 12:00-1:30 pm:
Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3wQvrUB​
In-person Registration Link: https://form.jotform.com/220934980725967
ICC at 20 Event Flyer

The Life and Scholarship of Eric Weitz: A Memorial Panel Tribute to CCNY's Distinguished Professor of History
2022-04-21 13:00 - 15:00 | CCNY Downtown Auditorium, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States
April 21, 2022, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm:
Zoom Registration Link: http://bit.ly/3qrvC5c​
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Weitz Memorial Panel 4-21

War and Justice in the 21st Century with ICC's founder Luis Moreno Ocampo
2022-04-20 18:00 - 19:30 | CCNY Downtown Auditorium, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States
The Keynote Address on April 20, 2022, 6:00-7:30 pm, by founding and former Chief International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo:
Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3wRFLM7
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Moreno Ocampo Keynote Flyer
