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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.

1949 > UK > Directed by Carol Reed
With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard
The most famous collaboration between writer Graham Greene and director Carol Reed, The Third Man is a suspenseful, arty noir thriller set in post-WWII Vienna featuring performances by Joseph Cotten as the innocent American caught up in strange foreign intrigues and Orson Welles as his corrupt friend, the dastardly, yet charismatic Harry Lime. More at www.rialtopictures.com/catalogue/the-third-man
1 hr 33 min

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has strained the world's healthcare systems and compounded challenges for governments and NGOs dealing with global waves of forced and voluntary migration. These movements of peoples across borders have magnified pressing issues ranging from social and economic inequalities and global climate change to civil war and political unrest. In the United States and worldwide, how can we promote the best public health outcomes while working to protect human rights, manage resources, and address inequality?

With a focus on the intersection of mobility, human rights, and public health, the Einaudi Center's Lund Critical Debate this year brings together one of the world's leading public health policymakers at the World Health Organization with a United States Senator and Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who led the Senate's efforts to study the consequences of global forced migration. The event will examine the geopolitical dimensions, the epidemiological aspects, and the humanitarian issues of this critical topic. The debate will illuminate key issues surrounding public health, migration, and racial and social justice at stake globally and nationally.

We welcome questions during the event. Registration is required.

Panelists

Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab serves as Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations agency dedicated to promoting public health and responsible for responding to health emergencies. Prior to her current appointment, Dr. Jakab has held several high-profile national and international public health policy positions: as WHO Regional Director for the European Region (2010-2019); as Founding Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2005-2010); and as State Secretary at the Hungarian Ministry of Health, Social, and Family Affairs (2002-2005), where she managed the country’s preparations for European Union accession in the area of public health.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). The son of Cuban immigrants, Sen. Menendez has represented the state of New Jersey in the United States Senate since 2006. As Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he has established himself as a foreign policy leader, seeking to do globally what he has done in New Jersey—supporting the most vulnerable in our society and lending a voice to those least able to speak for themselves. In June 2020, under his leadership, the committee published the report, "Global Forced Migration: The Political Crisis of Our Time." He helped pass the Senate's COVID relief packages and other healthcare legislation as well as playing a key role in shaping immigration reform bills. Prior to his position in the Senate, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993-2006.

Moderator

Dr. Gunisha Kaur is an assistant professor of anesthesiology who specializes in human rights research. Dr. Kaur serves as the Founding Director of the Human Rights Impact Lab, a Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights, and a Faculty Fellow at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, where she co-leads the migrations research team. Dr. Kaur’s research interests focus on advancing the health of displaced populations such as migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. She has used her extensive training and research in neuroscience as an analytical framework to pioneer the study of human rights through scientific methodology. Her research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health. A foremost leader in scientific investigations into migrant health, Dr. Kaur was selected as a member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society and as a Stephen M. Kellen Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. She earned her B.S. from Cornell University in 2006, M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2010, and her M.A. in medical anthropology from Harvard University in 2015.

About the Debate
This year's Lund Critical Debate is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and co-sponsored by Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge and in partnership with the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, with production assistance from eCornell. Established in 2008, Einaudi's Lund Critical Debate Series is made possible by the generosity of Judith Lund Biggs ’57.