DIASPORA
& TRANSNATIONALISMS
Leaving the homeland: violence, human rights and cultural shocks
wednesdays*
FALL 2015 LECTURE SERIES
12:20-1:10
Pm
123 memorial hall
This lecture series is offered by the Center for Global and Area Studies. It
may be taken as a one-credit class (ARSC 300-010 Issues in Global Studies)
and can be taken as Standard Grading or Pass/Fail. Please direct your
inquiries to Prof. Gladys Ilarregui (gladys@udel.edu).
*Please note different time & location for October 14
Free and open to the public
SEPT
2
GLADYS ILARREGUI | Languages, Literatures & Cultures;
Latin American & Iberian Studies
Course Introduction: Diaspora and
Transnationalisms. Leaving the Homeland.
OCT
14
SEPT
9
MONICA GRAY | Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Lincoln University
OCT
21
SEPT
16
MARK MCLEOD | History; Asian Studies
OCT
28
SEPT
23
CYNTHIA SCHMIDT-CRUZ | Languages, Literatures &
Cultures; Latin American & Iberian Studies
SEPT
30
OCT
7
Jamaican Diaspora: Its Implications
Highlanders and Lowlanders in the Vietnamese
Revolution
Exile and the Creative Writer in Latin America
STUART JAY KAUFMAN | Political Science & International
Relations
Bloody Diaspora: How Some Diasporas
Contribute to Violent Conflict
polly zavadivker | History; Jewish Studies
Wandering Jews? Belonging and Exile in Jewish
History
NOV
4
NOV
11
NOV
18
SPECIAL LECTURE: 5:30 PM in 127 Memorial Hall
Akram Khater | North Carolina State University
Globalizing the Middle East: Migration, Diaspora
and Transnational Communities
APRIL VENESS | Geography; Latin American & Iberian
Studies
Guatemalan Transnational Experiences: Examples
of Making Home and Place in Southern Delaware
MICHAEL COTSELL | English; African Studies
Islam in Scotland: The Fiction of Leila Aboulela
IKRAM MASMOUDI | Languages, Literatures & Cultures;
Islamic Studies
The Crisis of Syrian Refugees
hAIHONG yang | Languages, Literatures & Cultures; Asian
Studies Outside the Inner-Chambers and Beyond:
Diasporic Chinese Women and their Poetry at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century
CRISTINA GUARDIOLA | Languages, Literatures &
tures; Latin American & Iberian Studies
Medieval Diaspora: Discussing Homelands,
Frontiers, and Centers of Power
This one-credit course satisfies a core requirement for the Global Studies minor. Visit our website for more information:
www.cas.udel.edu/cgas
The Center for Global and Area Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences’ hub for world
scholarship and engagement, supports academic programs in African, Asian, European,
Islamic, Jewish, Latin American & Iberian, and Global Studies. CGAS also organizes lectures
and events in global and area studies, develops related majors and minors, and awards
research grants to faculty whose work contributes to our knowledge of the world.
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