Post Tagged with: "war and peace events"

Dr. Özgür Özdamar will lecture on “Foreign Policy Change in the Middle East: Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey” on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 6 p.m. in Porter 104. Özdamar is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University and currently a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on foreign […]

  The audio-visual exhibition Sounds of War is showing Jan. 22 through Feb. 2 at the Trisolini Gallery. The exhibit highlights the sounds of daily life in Syria, including those of battles and explosions that Syrians have become accustomed to. These sound recordings and their accompanying photographs were captured in Damascus, Syria between […]

The Global Solidarities Lecture Series presents a public lecture by Noura Erakat titled “Contemporary Renewals of Black-Palestinian Solidarity” on Tuesday, Nov. 27, from 4:30 to 6:o0 p.m. in Schoonover 145. This lecture will explore the historical and contemporary manifestations of Black-Palestinian solidarity. In particular, it explores the ways in which […]

Members of the Ohio University and broader Athens community are invited to a free screening eight short Syrian films (90 minutes) at the Athena Cinema at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23. All the films screened were created by Syrian filmmarkers who experienced the crisis in Syria that began in […]

The War and Peace theme presents Peter Warren Singer discussing “Next War: The Future of Technology, Security and Threats” on Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Schoonover 145. “Singer is a strategist at New America and an editor at Popular Science magazine. He has been named by […]

The Middle East & North Africa Studies Certificate program seeks to provide the Ohio University and Athens communities with an interdisciplinary understanding of the history and contemporary dynamics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. While the bulk of its efforts are focused on the undergraduate certificate in Middle East […]

The Contemporary History Institute presents a panel of Ohio University alumni for a panel on the new book Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 on Oct. 11 at 4:30 p.m. in Bentley 124. The book is edited by Dr. Christian Philip Peterson ’09Ph.D., Dr. William Knoblauch ’12Ph.D., and Michael Loadenthal. Peterson […]