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Week of Events
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Critical Issues in America presents Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, “Citizenship’s Insular Cases”
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Ian Coller – “The French Revolution and the Rights of Muslims” Monday, April 23rd at 5:00pm in the UCEN Flying A Studio
Ian Coller – “The French Revolution and the Rights of Muslims” Monday, April 23rd at 5:00pm in the UCEN Flying A Studio
The French Revolution and the Rights of Muslims Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine On 24 December 1789, a deputy named François de Hell proposed to the National Assembly an explicit decree that would allow Muslims to enjoy “all the rights, honors and advantages enjoyed by French citizens.”Coller Flyer Some historians have read this proposition […]
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Talk on the 1968 Student Massacre in Mexico City: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Polytechnic “Brigadistas” in the 1968 Student Movement
Talk on the 1968 Student Massacre in Mexico City: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Polytechnic “Brigadistas” in the 1968 Student Movement
In 1968, hundreds of students were killed by the Mexican military and police for organizing student protests against government repression. On the fiftieth anniversary of this massacre, activists/survivors Gabriel Vega, Felipe Galvan, and Jesus Gutierrez will reflect on the meaning of student activism, memory, and social justice in times of repression. See the flyer for […]
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Nate Citino, History, Rice University, “Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967.”
Nate Citino, History, Rice University, “Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967.”
Citino discusses his most recent book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S. - Arab Relations, 1945-1967 (2017). He is also the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa'ud, and the making of U.S. - Saudi Relations (2002). Co-Sponsored with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Allevation and Sustainable Development. A chapter from his recent book […]