[Andalusi Studies] Protest and Dissimulation: A Roundtable at NYU, December 1

[SJ Pearce]

Dear colleagues,

Those of you in the New York area may find this event to be of interest.

All the best,
Sarah

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Please join students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at NYU for a humanistic
response to the US presidential election and the vandalism and hate crimes
that have occurred throughout New York City, including on our own campus,
in its wake.

“Protest and Dissimulation: Muslims and Other Minorities in the
Spanish-Speaking World” will explore the challenges faced by religious and
ethnic minority communities in the Spanish-speaking world from the Middle
Ages through the present day and examine the strategies that those
communities used to resist, circumvent, survive, and even flourish under
the pressure of those challenges. Through discussion and conversation, the
evening will yield questions and modes of thinking that are grounded in the
unique histories, literatures, and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world
and that participants, attendees, and discussants can carry with them out
into the wider contemporary world that is presenting its own evolving set
of challenges to many modern communities.

This round-table and teach-in will take place on Thursday, December 1, from
6-8pm in the Great Room of 13-19 University Pl. A light supper will be
served and attendees are encouraged to continue the discussion over the
meal. The event will be live-streamed and archived online.



More information is available at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/227084554390059/

Speakers will include:

Farah Dih, NYU: "A Caste Society in the First Spanish Modernity"
Erica Field, NYU: “Dissimulation, Piety, and Fear”
Sibylle Fischer, NYU: "Stop Whining: On Politics of Racelessness and
Executive Violence in Spanish America"
Nicholas Jones, Bucknell University: “Do Black Lives Matter in Spanish
Early Modernity? Blackness, Cognitive Dissonance, Dissimulation”
Seth Kimmel, Columbia University: “The Ends of Multiculturalism”
S.J. Pearce, NYU: “Medieval Jews and Muslims in the Modern Nation”


-- 
S.J. Pearce
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
New York University
13-19 University Place, Room 425
New York, NY 10003
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