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Is pluralism possible in Europe? Are far-right parties like the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and the Front National (FN) fringe movements, or do they say something unsettling about the general state of democracy in Europe, today? The Post-World War II era in Europe was characterized by both devastation and hope for democracy, including a renewed political dedication to protecting plurality. Yet it was also characterized by the large-scale migration of guestworker and postcolonial migrants. Since these migrations, European nation-states and societies have grappled with the position of those who they first cast as foreigners, later as ethnic others, and today as Muslims in the European context. These boundaries between "us" and the other within came perhaps most pointedly into focus with the refugee crisis in 2015 that magnified long-standing conversations regarding who belongs to (and who is seen to threaten) the European imaginary, and the casting of both Muslims and refugees as uncivil in the political push for Brexit.

In this talk, Professor Elisabeth Becker will draw from her book Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste and Contention in Europe, based on 2.5 years of ethnographic research in European mosques, in order to grapple with the failures and possibilities for European pluralism. She will specifically turn away from the so-called "Muslim Question" (echoing of the "Jewish Question" prior) and towards the Question of Europe: questioning the resiliency of democracy in this post-colonial/post-imperial age.

By bringing the voices of Muslim Europeans to bear on contemporary debates regarding ethnic, racialized, and religious minorities and migrants in Europe, Professor Becker will shed light on how ideals of freedom, equality, and progress have failed many of Europe's citizens. And yet she will also show how pluralizing the discourse on Europe's present can and does contribute to democratic resilience in this uncertain age.

This talk is co-sponsored by:
Department of Sociology
Jewish Studies Program
Comparative Muslim Society Program
Institute for Comparative Modernities
Religious Studies Program

Elisabeth Becker is an Assistant Professor/Freigeist Fellow at the Max-Weber Institute of-Sociology, Heidelberg University. Her Freigeist project “Invisible Architects: Jews, Muslims and the Making of Europe” reconceptualizes the formation of European societies by moving Jews and Muslims from the margins to the center of their stories. She is a cultural sociologist and public scholar focused on the experiences of ethnic, religious, and racial minorities and migrants in Europe. Elisabeth book, Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention, analyzes the enduring marginalization of Muslims in Europe through the ethnographic study of two of Europe’s largest urban mosque communities. Elisabeth also regularly writes for major publications like The Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Tablet Magazine (she was a 2020 Tablet Magazine Journalism Fellow) and collaborates with non-profit organizations including The New America Foundation, The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and The Landecker Foundation, where she is a democracy fellow. She is currently writing a book on Jewish Berlin (Passages: The Moving Lives of Jewish Berliners).

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2020 > Romania > Directed by Radu Jude
With Serban Lazarovici
"In this blend of documentary and drama, the oppressive investigation of a high-school student in Romania, in 1981, for anti-authoritarian graffiti is the subject of a stage production intercut with an astounding, extended set of archival television clips that reveal the surprisingly alluring shams on which the Communist dictatorship depended." (Richard Brody, The New Yorker) Subtitled. More at www.bigworldpictures.org/films/uppercaseprint/index.html
2 hrs 8 min

2020 > Canada/USA > Directed by Joshua Bonnetta
The Two Sights (An Dˆ Shealladh) explores the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As we listen to locals' accounts of haunting experiences - phantom horses, ghost voices and other supernatural phenomena - filmmaker Joshua Bonnetta connects their testimonies with striking 16mm images and a carefully-curated sonic montage of the physical and aural environment of these enchanted islands, creating an ethnographic marvel that thrills the eyes and ears and invites us into the extra-sensory beyond. Subtitled. More at cinemaguild.com/theatrical/thetwosights.html

1 hr 30 min

Over two days, scholars, writers, practitioners, activists, and students across institutions are coming together virtually to explores the relationship between borders, captivity, and memory, and how it shapes the racialization of migration and the construction of national identity.

The first day of the symposium is March 18, 2022 and the second day is April 8, 2022.

Day 2 Schedule:

Welcome and Roundtable 1: Translation, Testimony, and Storytelling across Borders, 9:45–11:30 a.m. (ET)

Keynote: Language, Identity, and Representation in Transnational Italy, 12–1:30 p.m. (ET)

Speakers: Amara Lakhous and Ubah Cristina Ali FarahDiscussants: Ron Kubati and Loredana PolezziStudent Reflection Session, 1:30–2:15 p.m. (ET)

Open to undergraduate and graduate students at any institution

Roundtable 2: Readings and Discussion to Celebrate the Launch of Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives, 2:45–4:15 p.m. (ET)

This symposium is organized through the Central New York Humanities Corridor (LLC35), with co-sponsorship from Montclair State University Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, the AAIS Critical Race Studies Caucus, Cornell's Migrations initiative, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and its Institute for European Studies, the Cornell Department of Romance Studies, the University of Rochester's Humanities Center, and the Department of Humanities in the Eastman School of Music.

Over two days, scholars, writers, practitioners, activists, and students across institutions are coming together virtually to explores the relationship between borders, captivity, and memory, and how it shapes the racialization of migration and the construction of national identity.

The first day of the symposium is March 18, 2022 and the second day is April 8, 2022.

Day 1 Schedule:

Welcome and Roundtable 1 Cultural, Legal, and Sociological Perspectives on Racial Justice in Italy and the Mediterranean, 9:45–11:30 a.m. (ET)

Keynote: Racial Justice and the Black Mediterranean, 12–1:30 p.m. (ET)

Speakers: Camilla Hawthorne and Angelica PesariniDiscussants: Simone Brioni and Teresa FioreStudent Reflection Session, 1:30–2:15 p.m. (ET)

Open to undergraduate and graduate students at any institution

Facilitators: Simone Brioni and Teresa FioreRoundtable 2: “Italian Others”: Histories of Racialized Migration and Diaspora between the Nineteenth Century and the Present, 2:45–4:15 p.m. (ET)

This symposium is organized through the Central New York Humanities Corridor (LLC35), with co-sponsorship from Montclair State University Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, the AAIS Critical Race Studies Caucus, Cornell's Migrations initiative, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and its Institute for European Studies, the Cornell Department of Romance Studies, the University of Rochester's Humanities Center, and the Department of Humanities in the Eastman School of Music.