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Lecture: How and Why Immigrant Muslim Communities Are Losing Women

NYU Abu Dhabi Institute 19 Washington Square North, New York

How and Why Immigrant Muslim Communities Are Losing Women: Nearly half of Muslim Americans never attend the mosque and have very few Muslim friends. How and why does “unmosquing” happen and to whom? Eman Abdelhadi traces second-generation immigrants’ engagement with Muslim communities using life history interviews and presents four trajectories that emerge from these data. Abdelhadi finds that while most Muslim…

The Late-Soviet Underground: (Re-)Collecting the Past (with Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College)

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

In this talk Professor Ainsley Morse will present a paper which argues for collecting—meaning collecting variously ephemeral “things” (words, poems, books, writers, traditions, ways of life), but also “collecting” as a mode of writing—as both a pathology and a creative mode typical of unofficial literature and art of the late Soviet period. She will focus on two late-Soviet writers: the…

The Challenge of Independent Russian-speaking Media in the U.S. and the World

Rennert Hall, Kraft Center 606 West 115th Street, New York

Presented by RTVI in collaboration with the Russian American Foundation and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, this roundtable discussion will bring together Russian and American journalists, scholars, political scientists, historians and independent authors who will jointly explore the claims of propagandistic media influence, disinformation and foreign interference in the context of modern broadcasting, and address the disruptive intervention on new…