*This event has been postponed. A new date will be shared in the future!*
Join the Pozen Center and the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) for a roundtable on the most recent issue of the Middle East Report: Race—Legacies and Challenges. The discussion will center around the historical and cultural specificity of racial formation, racialization and racism in the Middle East and North Africa. Histories of Western imperialism, indigenous legacies of enslaved labor and ongoing postcolonial nation-building projects have configured race and racism differently than across the West. This issue demonstrates the need to analyze race and racism locally. Racial categories continue to be shaped and reshaped by migration and labor. They intersect with other categories of social difference including gender, language, culture, nationality and socioeconomic status. At the same time, anti-racist mobilization and rhetoric anchored in the West holds political currency. In tracing the social movements that have arisen in response to racism in the region, this issue also shows how activists and citizens are making strategic connections across geopolitical borders in their struggle for anti-racist futures.
Panelists:
Alex Lubin (moderator) is a professor of African American Studies at Penn State University.
Beeta Baghoolizadeh is an assistant professor of history and Africana studies at Bucknell University and serves as the resident historian for the Collective for Black Iranians.
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda is a human rights lawyer. She has a decade of experience working with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) as well as other UN agencies and non-governmental organizations that focus on building international and national policies for the most vulnerable populations around the world. She is also a documentary filmmaker.
Shreya Parikh is a dual PhD candidate in sociology at CERI-Sciences Po Paris and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
If you have any questions about access or to request any reasonable accommodations that will facilitate your full participation in this event, please contact human-rights@uchicago.edu.