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NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies fall event series is titled Elements of Border and Infrastructure.

This series will use the elements, “EARTH / AIR / FIRE / WATER” to frame panels across the year and allow for new ways to explore materiality, mediation, and scale that problematize how we imagine both border and infrastructure. Each elemental theme will be addressed twice over the course of the year, and each panel will bring together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners across disciplines and fields to provide insights, field-fresh research, and original interventions into critical issues that concern the Middle East but branch out far beyond.

The link to register for the event is below.

https://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events.html

There Where You are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata, edited by Finbarr Barry Flood, Director of Silsila, wins a Lifetime Achievement Award for the Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata at the Palestine Book Awards.

There Where You are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata (Hirmer Verlag, 2019), edited by Finbarr Barry Flood, Director of Silsila, won a Lifetime Achievement Award for the Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata (d. 2019) at the Palestine Book Awards on November 5th:

https://www.palestinebookawards.com/news/item/palestine-book-awards-2020-winners-announced

There Where You Are Not brings together the writings of Kamal Boullata, celebrated Palestinian artist and theorist. Produced over four decades of exile in Europe, North Africa, and the United States, the experience of exile and imperatives of resistance permeate the essays, whose subjects range from autobiography to contemporary art, early ruminations on gender relations, language and the visual, to questions of identity and globalization. Taken collectively, the writings explore intersections between aesthetics, history, and politics that are central to the historiography of modern Arab art.

MESA Statement on Academic Freedom and Corporate Control of Digital Platforms

The expanded use by institutions of higher learning across the United States and Canada of corporate-controlled videoconferencing platforms poses threats to the free and safe exchange of ideas. To uphold their commitment to the principles of academic freedom and vigorously protect freedom of expression and exchange of ideas — the hallmark of the — university administrators must address such threats promptly and decisively. The threat posed by corporate control of media platforms is apparent in the recent unilateral actions taken by Zoom to shut down events about Palestine at US universities.

https://mesana.org/advocacy/letters-from-the-board/2020/10/29/mesa-statement-on-academic-freedom-and-corporate-control-of-digital-platforms