Archive: November 2009

ITHACA, NY — Ithaca College professor of politics Zillah Eisenstein will give a free public reading from her newest book on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 6 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books, located in the DeWitt Mall in downtown Ithaca. “The Audacity of Races and Genders: A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Election” uses the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a launching point for...

Sue-Je Gage (Anthropology) and Naeem Inayatullah (Politics) were speakers at a panel titled, “Afghanistan: What should we do next?”  The event was sponsored by Pax Christi and Peaceful Gatherings, Corning, NY, Thursday November 12, 2009.

Zillah Eisenstein, professor of politics, will see her newest book The Audacity of Races and Genders, A personal and global story of the Obama Election, launched in the U.S. by Palgrave, December 1st. Zed press published the book in London and internationally on November 12, 2009; and Spinifex began its distribution in Australia at this same...

Professor Tom Shevory and Lecturer Tsatsral Davaadorj (Mongolian National University) presented the paper, "The Ethics of Politics and the Politics of Ethics:  The U.S. and Mongolia," at the Conference on Democracy and Political Parties, Genghis Khan Hotel, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, November 15, 2009.  The conference was sponsored by the Mongolian National University, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, and the Mongolian Academy of Public Administration.
 

Posted on behalf of Dean Tanya Saunders, Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies.

Asma Barlas, professor of politics and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, recently spent a week at the University of Utrecht as a visiting scholar (October 24-November 1). The invitation came from the Netherlands Research School for Theology and Religious Studies (NOSTER), Faculty of Humanities (Theology and Religious Studies and Gender Studies) and several women's groups, including Al-Nisa, the Dutch Muslim women’s organization, and the Oecumenical Women's Synod.