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SUMMARY:Can Iran Recover Its Democracy?
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University)\, the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall\, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. \nEver since Mahsa Amini died in September 2022\, in the custody of Iran’s morality police\, for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly\, the world has watched tens of thousands of Iranian protesters face off against an authoritarian government determined to deny women’s rights. Nearly 20\,000 have been arrested\, and human rights groups say the country has issued at least 11 protest-related death sentences and is expected to try dozens more\, including children\, for charges that can carry the death penalty. But even in the midst of deadly violence and threats from security forces\, the protesters\, a significant number of whom are young and female\, continue to defy the regime. Taking to the streets in dozens of cities throughout the country\, they are marching and burning their headscarves. Will the protests threaten the 44-year-old theocratic government? Could a new Iranian Revolution that values Free Speech\, secularism\, and democracy be on the horizon? \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \nFeaturing\nSanam Naraghi Anderlini is the founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She was formerly director of the Centre for Women\, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics. Anderlini has 25 years of experience as a global peace strategist. At ICAN\, she spearheads the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL)\, comprising 90+ women-led peacebuilding organizations in 40 countries. \nMarjan Keypour Greenblatt is a human rights activist and advocate for women and minorities in Iran. She is the founding director of the Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM)\, an international network that promotes equal rights for all citizens in Iran; and StopFemicideIran\, an advocacy campaign that monitors and documents incidents and memorializes their victims. Co-chair of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Task Force on Middle East Minorities\, she is also an advisory board member of the Atlantic Council’s Iran Strategy Project and New Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI). \nFathali M. Moghaddam\, a professor of psychology at Georgetown University\, edits the Cambridge University Press series on Progressive Psychology. He previously edited the journal Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology and directed the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science and the Conflict Resolution Program at Georgetown. Moghaddam’s books include “Political Plasticity – The Future of Democracy and Dictatorship\,” “The Psychology of Dictatorship\,” “The Psychology of Democracy\,” and “Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty.” \nMichael Nazir-Ali\, president of the Oxford Centre for Training\, Research\, Advocacy\, and Dialogue (OXTRAD)\, was the 106th Bishop of Rochester for 15 years until 2009. He is originally from southwest Asia and in 1994 became the first diocesan bishop in the Church of England born abroad. He holds British and Pakistani citizenship and served as a member of the House of Lords beginning in 1999\, where he was active in several areas of national and international concern. Nazir-Ali has both a Christian and Muslim family background. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \nSanford J. Ungar (moderator)\, president emeritus of Goucher College\, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University\, which documents challenges to free expression in American education\, government\, and civil society. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was also dean of the American University School of Communication and is a former co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/can-iran-recover-its-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado
DESCRIPTION:In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years\, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems\, dangers\, and disasters. However\, in this series\, we will invite speakers to explore the ways in which art and literature have foregrounded the inspirational beauty\, delicacy\, and strength of the natural world. \nOperating in the tradition of the atlases developed by activist scholars\, A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado is a collectively authored digital project documenting and interpreting the sites\, issues\, policies\, and cultures associated with the American nuclear weapons complex as it enters its ninth decade. With more than 40 contributors to date\, the atlas collects and cross-references forms of evidence such as maps\, photographs\, descriptions of nuclear sites\, and briefs offering historical and political contexts. In this presentation\, co-editors Sarah Kanouse and Shiloh Krupar will discuss their approach to building both the social infrastructures that created and maintain the atlas\, as well as the experimental interface design that resists the compartmentalization of military and industrial nuclear discourses. The presentation will conclude with an invitation to use the atlas as a publication forum for student research in a wide range of disciplines\, from art history to science and technology. \n  \nParticipants: \nSarah Kanouse is associate professor of media and arts at Northeastern University and an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her research-based creative projects shift the visual dimension of the landscape to allow stories of environmental and social transformation to emerge. Her work has been presented through the Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago\, the Krannert Art Museum\, and numerous academic and artist-run venues. \nShiloh Krupar is a geographer and Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University\, where she directs the Culture and Politics Program in the School of Foreign Service. Her research examines the biopolitical administration of asymmetrical life\, geographies of waste and vulnerability\, and bureaucracy. Krupar is the author of Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste (2013) and co-author of Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making (2019). \nKathryn Temple (moderator) is a professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University where she has taught since 1994. She specializes in the study of law and the humanities. Among her publications are Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England (2019) and the co-edited Research Handbook on Law and Emotions (2021). Her humanities outreach activities include work with military veterans and the incarcerated. \nMichael Scott is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/a-peoples-atlas-of-nuclear-colorado/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Joseph Pieper: Leisure\, the Basis of Culture
DESCRIPTION:“Leisure is the centre-point around which everything revolves.” Josef Pieper explores this puzzling statement of Aristotle in this short\, approachable\, and profound book. We will use a careful reading of the text to contemplate the lack of contemplation in our contemporary work-life balance\, and Pieper’s argument that only a more spiritual approach can make things right. \nThe meetings will be online.  All are welcome. Register here. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford University. He is the author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, published by Catholic University of America Press in 2021\, and Money\, Finance\, Reality\, Morality\, published by Ethics International Press in 2022. \nWeek by week: \nApril 26: Leisure… Forward. Preface and Chapter 1 \nMay 3: Leisure… Chapter 2 \nMay 10: Leisure… Chapters 3 and 4 \nMay 17: Leisure… Chapter 5 \nMay 24: Laborem exercens \nMay 31: Philosophical Act: Chapter 1 \nJune 7: Philosophical Act: Chapters 2 and 3 \nJune 14: Philosophical Act: Chapter 4 \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/joseph-pieper-leisure-the-basis-of-culture/2023-04-26/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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