7 events found.
Week of Events
Political Theologies of Medieval and Early Modern Islam: A Workshop
The workshop is open to interested faculty and graduate students. If you would like to join us at lunch, please contact Adam Morrison at cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu so that we can get an accurate head count. October 30, 2015: 9:45 AM Greetings and Introduction 10:00 – 10:50 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut), "Mystical Poetics: Courtly […]
October 25, 2015
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Thomas Maloutas, Athens in Crisis: Segregation and Social Distance
Thomas Maloutas, Athens in Crisis: Segregation and Social Distance
Speaker: Thomas Maloutas Harokopio University, Athens Event Description: Thomas Maloutas, Professor of Social Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, is a leading expert in cities and society. His lecture will be on social and ethnic segregation in Athens today. He will address the impact of the ongoing economic and political crisis on the city’s social […]
October 30, 2015
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Barry Eidlin, Class vs. Special Interest: Labor, Power, and Politics in the United States and Canada in the Twentieth Century
Barry Eidlin, Class vs. Special Interest: Labor, Power, and Politics in the United States and Canada in the Twentieth Century
Professor Barry Eidlin, a sociologist, is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). A copy of the paper he will be presenting can be found here. This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power […]