RGDST: Ussama Makdisi "Overwriting Palestine: History, Genocide and Denial Today"
Overwriting Palestine: History, Genocide and Denial Today
Ussama Makdisi
Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair
University of California Berkeley
Leacock #232, 855 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal
4 pm
October 28, 2024
* The event will be live-streamed at Morrice 328 in case Leacock is overcapacity.
Dr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. In 2012-2013, Makdisi was an invited Resident Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin). The Carnegie Corporation named Makdisi a 2009 Carnegie Scholar as part of its effort to promote original scholarship regarding Muslim societies and communities, both in the United States and abroad. Makdisi was awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy of Berlin.
Professor Makdisi’s most recent book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World was published in 2019 by the University of California Press. He is also the author of Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs, 2010). His previous books include Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008), which was the winner of the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association, the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the author of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press, 2000). Makdisi co-hosts a new podcast called Makdisi Street.
This event is part of the ON GAZA series that started in Fall 2023. It is co-sponsored by the Critical Media Lab (CML), the Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology (RGDST) of the Yan P. Lin Centre, the Institute of Islamic Studies and the Montreal Ottoman Turkish Studies (MOTS) Workshop at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.