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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Dr. Jack Lule who is the GSCI academic advisor and identify yourself and your interest. You may do this in person, by telephone, or by email. And don't forget to check out the
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Archived Information about previous GSCI events can be found by clicking on "Archived Events" at the bottom of the page
EVENTS
The Center for Global Islamic Studies presents Prof. David Lelyveld,
Professor of History, William Patterson University, on Wednesday, October
28th, 4:15 pm, in Linderman Library, Room 200. The title of his lecture is
"Sir Sayyid's Dreams: Biography and Islamic Dream Interpretation in 19th
Century India". The event is co-sponsored by the GSCI.
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"Global Tensions" - GSCI Fall Conference (Link to conference site from here)
Friday, October 9, 2009
Lehigh University Mountaintop Campus
Iaccoca Building, Wood Conference
"Africa and Its Diaspora: Whither the Future?"
Michael A. Gomez, Professor of History at NYU
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
30 September at 7:30pm
Rauch Business Center, Rm. 91
Presented by The LVAIC Africana Consortium in Conjunction with The Africana Studies Program at Lehigh University
Public Welcomed
For further information, please contact Jariza Laubach (jel6@Lehigh.EDU) or Joel Nathan Rosen (jrosen@moravian.edu)
2009 Kenner Lecture presented by Charles
Villa-Vicencio
"Genocide, Crimes
Against Humanity and War Crimes: Does the South African Settlement have
anything to teach the world?"
Tuesday September 22 at 8:00 pm
Zoellner Arts Center Baker Hall.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Lehigh University is fortunate to have Dr. Villa-Vicencio here at Lehigh to speak.
Please make plans to attend and all students, regardless of your major, are also welcome to attend.
Charles Villa-Vicencio holds an emeritus appointment at the
University of Capetown and is currently a visiting professor in the Conflict
Resolution program at Georgetown University. He was the National Research
Director for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which held
public sessions from 1996-1998 and finished its work on 2004. The Commission’s
goal was to rebuild post-Apartheid South African society via reconciliation and
not retribution. By the end of its hearings, the Commission took statements
from more than 20,000 victims of Apartheid and received applications for
amnesty from 7,100 perpetrators of violence. In 2000 Prof. Villa-Vicencio
founded the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation based in Cape Town and
served as its executive director until 2008. Currently he works on issues
related to transitional justice, and he has been worked for conflict resolution
in numerous countries, including Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of
Congo and Sudan. His most recent book,
Walk with Us and Learn: Political
Reconciliation in Africa (Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Press) is due to be published in October 2009.
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