NEWS and Upcoming events
THEME: SOCIAL IMAGINARY
Wednesday February 24 (click for more info)
4:00 pm, 254 Barrows
"Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932"
Afshin Marashi, California State University, Sacramento
Discussants:
Kareem Abu-Zeid, graduate student, Dept. of Comparative Literature
Wednesday March 10 (click for more info)
4:00 pm, 254 Barrows
"Creating Social Imaginaries through Pilgrimage: Solomon, Bourdieu and the Habitus"
Dale Loepp, University of California, Berkeley
This event is sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley
What is the Memory and identity working group?
The Memory and Identity Working Group of the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of California, Berkeley exists to foster scholarship and encourage dialogue across the department's diverse traditions.
The working group revolves around the concept of Memory and Identity, a theoretical approach to understanding the formation of history and culture evidenced in texts, film, and other media. This year's theme is the Social Imaginary.
The Memory and Identity Working Group is sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of California, Berkeley.
