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Black Women, Citizenship, and France’s Universalist Myths

REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE A LINK TO THE EVENT. In this talk drawn from her book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire, Annette Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal Black French women’s anticolonialist endeavors. She shows how their activism and thought challenged French imperialism by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple…

COVID-19 in Iran: A Conversation on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Public Health in Iran

A panel of interdesplinary scholars will discuss the medical and sociopolitical aspects of the current crisis of COVID-19 in Iran. They will explore similar public health instances in the modern history of Iran. The conversation will situate COVID-19 in the sociohistorical, political, medical, and cultural contexts in which the discipline of public health has emerged and has been interpreted and…

Preparing for the High Holidays – Sukkot

Understanding our Sephardic Laws and Traditions with Hakham Rabbi Elie Abadie, MD Rabbi Elie Abadie, M.D., comes from a long and distinguished rabbinical lineage dating back to fifteenth century Spain and Provence. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he grew-up in Mexico City before settling in the United States. Following in the footsteps of the great Jewish scholar and philosopher Moses Maimonides (the…