Archive Events

Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 2:00 pm

Cultural Crossing Lecture Series

People of the Air: The Spatial Experience of German Jews in the Third Reich

Following the Nazification of German public space, Jews were forced to navigate new exclusionary situations in the streets and plazas, on the roads, and in a variety of public institutions (such as public libraries) as well as in nature. Moreover, Jewish spaces, like cemeteries, synagogues, and even the home, were transformed and imbued with new meaning. Diaries, personal letters, and press materials give us a glimpse of these spatial realities.

Via Zoom by Professor Guy Miron, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Open University of Israel

You are invited to a Zoom meeting on Apr 6, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada). Register in advance for this meeting:
https://csuohio.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdO2upz0rGNfzYAo28AQiCdYwdYf12pMl
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 4:30 pm

Cultural Crossings Lecture Series

The Fascist Threat: Then and Now

In this roundtable we will explore the nature of fascist antecedents across the globe as well as contemporary dangers.

Via Zoom with Professors:

• Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU)
• Federico Finchelstein (New School)
• Richard Steigmann-Gall (Kent State)

Moderated by Mark B. Cole (CSU)
 
You are invited to a Zoom meeting on Apr 15, 2021 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada). Register in advance for this meeting:
https://csuohio.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkdO6qpzsoHdc0Pelbz4ldITKRL7qW0AxI
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Cleveland State University
Cultural Crossings Lecture Series

Muslims and the Holocaust
Rescue, Hope, and Reconciliation

Tuesday, January 28, 2020
6:00 pm—7:00 pm
Student Center 313

Dr. Mehnaz Afridi is the Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Center as well as an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College. She teaches courses on contemporary Islam and the Holocaust. She is the author of, most recently, Shoah Through Muslim Eyes. Her talk will not only focus on the little known history of Muslims who saved Jews but also the colonial and collaborationist aspirations during WWII that complicate our understanding of Holocaust history.

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The Middle East Today and the Future of the Palestinians

A Special Lecture by Professor Ilan Pappé

Wednesday, September 12, 2018
11:00 am—12:30 pm
CSU Student Center, Room 313

Professor Pappé obtained his BA degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 and the D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. He founded and directed the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel between 1992 to 2000 and was the Chair of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa between 2000 and 2006. Professor Pappé was a senior lecturer in the department of Middle Eastern History and the Department of Political Science in Haifa University, Israel between 1984 and 2006.

Currently, Professor Pappé is a Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. His research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine. He has also written on multiculturalism, Critical Discourse Analysis, and on Power and Knowledge in general.

For more information please contact Dr. Abed el-Rahman Tayyara, 216-687-518, a.tayyara@csuohio.edu

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You're invited: CSU Student Presentations

Summer Study Abroad 2018 in France

 Friday, Sept. 21st 3:30-5:30 RT 503

CAPSTONE PRESENTATIONS:

"On peut se tutoyer?" Une exploration de tu et vous en français langue étrangère.(Abby Wolgamoth)

Le christianisme d'aujourd'hui chez les jeunes français (Hanna Kraker)

Field Study Presentations: Le tatouage, Jeanne d'Arc, le théâtre, la cuisine, la mode, le photo-journalisme, l'histoire et la religion

Presentations are in French. Reception follows
Free and open to the public!

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Islam and Homosexuality

Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Contradictions

Thursday, April 12, 2018
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Parker Hannifin Hall, Room 104

Presented by Dr. Everett K. Rowson
New York University

Sponsored by the US Department of Education Title VI-A UISFL grant to promote the Arabic major at CSU, the Middle Eastern Studies Program at CSU, and the Department of History at Baldwin Wallace University.

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Arab Day 2018

Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Student Center Atrium
11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Come and enjoy Arab food and fun!
Learn about the Arabic major and minor and Middle Eastern Studies minor.

Sponsored by the US Department of Education Title VI-A UISFL Grant

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Cleveland State University Division of Student Affairs Diversity Council and the Middle Eastern Studies Program

The United States and the Middle East: History and Politics

Presented by Dr. Pete Moore

Wednesday, September 20, 2017, at 12:30 pmTrinity
Trinity Cathedral (2230 Euclid Ave.), Room A

An overview of the political and economic relations between the US and the Middle East in recent years with an emphasis on current events

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Cleveland State University Department of World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Teaching Assistant Program in France!

Tuesday, September 19, 2017, from 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Rhodes Tower, Room 502 (Library)

Are you interested in sharing your language and culture with French students and expanding your cultural horizons in France?

Consider applying to the Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF) and become one of the 1,100 Americans who teach in public schools across all regions of France.

You can gain valuable teaching experience and experience French culture first hand. After a year in France, teaching assistants pursue global studies in education, international business, public health, international policy, arts and culture administration, among other fields.

Please come to meet CSU French major Jacob Digman returning from France for information on the program!

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An Introduction to Arabic Language and Culture

August 14 –24, 2017 || 5:30 – 8:00 pm

Arab-Americans who live in the Greater Cleveland area constitutes one of the largest Arab populations in the United States. As the state of political unrest in the Arab World increases, more and more Arabs will continue to arrive in Ohio.

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Hungarian Culture Through Film

WLC 293, section 3 Tuesdays/Thursdays, 12:30—1:45 pm

Taught in English

Students will analyze representative Hungarian films and learn about various aspects of Hungarian culture and everyday life in the course of history, and especially in the last ninety years. The emphasis will be on the relations between the individual and society both in everyday, contemporary life and during the most important historical events.

For more information: Dr. Mónika Fodor ( fodor.monika@pte.hu )

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Ethnography of Film Industries

Thursday, April 6, 2017, at 12:30 p.m.
Student Center, Room 315

A Lecture presented by Steve Caton, the Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Harvard University

Steven C. Caton is an anthropologist with a focus on the Middle East. He has worked on poetry as a form of political rhetoric in tribal Yemen and is now researching the politics of water scarcity in the Arabian Peninsula. He has also written on film, particularly on the image of T.E. Lawrence. The image is an ideological one, furthering the ends of various political agendas in trans-Atlantic culture. At Harvard, he regularly teaches courses on language and culture; Middle East ethnography; linguistic pragmatics and cultural description; anthropology, cultural studies, and film; and the history of anthropological theory. His books include Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a Northern Yemeni Tribe, Lawrence of Arabia: a Film's Anthology, and Yemen Chronicle: the Anthropology of War and Mediation.

For more information please contact Dr. Abed El-Rahman Tayyara: a.tayyara@csuohio.edu.

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Cultural Crossing Presents:

The Presence and Influence of Hungarian Culture on the American Artistic Scene

With a Presentation and Discussion of the Academy Award winner for best short film "Sing"

Dr. Peter Muller

Fulbright Scholar-University of Pecs

Thursday, April 13, 2017, from 6:00 – 7:30 pm
CSU Parker Hannifin Hall PH 103

The Influence of Hungarian Culture on the American Artistic Scene Lecture presented by Peter Muller will cover the many Hungarian artists who have contributed to the artistic life in the US including, The architect of the new exhibition site of The MET in New York City; a painter whose work was sold at the Sotheby's auction last November for $6M; a folk singer who introduces the nine Academy Award-winning film, The English Patient; a composer of the opera Angels in America (based on Tony Kushner's play); a playwright whose play was adapted for the musical Carousel and without whose plays there is no season in the United States; a writer who lived for decades in the US unnoticed as an artist and who has been discovered by the American literary scene at the millennium; a writer who received the America Award in 2014, the Man Booker Prize in 2015; cinematographers of Easy Rider, Ghostbusters, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, etc.

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Arab Day

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 || 11:30 am – 2:00 pm

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An Introduction to Arabic Language and Culture

May 15 – May 25, 2017 || 5:30 – 8:00 pm

Arab-Americans who live in the Greater Cleveland area constitutes one of the largest Arab populations in the United States. As the state of political unrest in the Arab World increases, more and more Arabs will continue to arrive in Ohio.

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Being a Muslim in America Today

A lecture by

Julia Shearson

Executive Director of CAIR-Ohio (Council on American Islamic Relations), Cleveland Chapter

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 12:30 pm

Trinity Cathedral (2230 Euclid Avenue), Room A (next to Café AhRoma)

For more information please contact Dr. Abed El-Rahman Tayyara: a.tayyara@csuohio.edu