https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi9QyI7kRys&t=5s Abstract: We are currently experiencing one of the most disruptive pandemics in modern history. The COVID-19 pandemic has so far resulted in more than 38 million confirmed cases and more than one million deaths. Where we stand now, how many more it will infect or kill worldwide, how long it will continue, and when—if … Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCXL6nC9sA In this lecture Prof. Amzi will discuss Muslim migration and its role in nation building at the turn of the twentieth century. Her talk will consider the persistence of popular movements and categories such as minorities as integral to the modern conceptualization of state and nation in southeastern Europe and the Middle East.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6fEVmC8ZL8&t=2s This talk aims to rethink political community-formation by considering the role of extraterritoriality in conditioning the national and imperial contexts of Italian residents in Egypt from 1882 to the 1950s. Arguing that ‘community’ has been taken for granted in studies of the modern Mediterranean, Dr. Viscomi will discuss the emergence of a political community … Read More
An event organized by the Italian Graduate Society at Rutgers New Brunswick and co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Displacements Project.
"Beyond Vulnerability. A Conversation on Forced Migration, Humanitarianism, and Education in the Eastern Mediterranean a Century Ago and Today"
"The Mediterranean and the Contradictions of Europe: Race, Religion, and Epistemic Borders"
"Weaponizing the Past: A Conversation on Race, Religion, Migration, and the Rise of Neo-Fascism in the Contemporary Mediterranean"
Organized by Elektra Kostopoulou