Dialogues Across Difference: Building Community at MIT, with John Tomasi

Bartos Theater, E-15 070 Wiesner Bldg, Ames St, Cambridge, MA, United States

With enthusiasm, we invite you to join us for the first in a new series of guest lectures and campus conversations called “Dialogues Across Difference: Building Community at MIT.” In the spirit of our recent commitment to create a range of opportunities for all of us to “learn about, practice and model the skills to...

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Understanding Antisemitism: Enduring Hatred

45-801 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pamela Nadell is the director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University. Her research focuses on American Jewish history and antisemitism in the United States. Dialogues Across Difference focuses on modeling disagreement by elevating and encouraging dialogue.

Campus Freedom of Expression:  Antisemitism and the Current Controversies

45-801 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law. A free speech scholar who has recently written about antisemitism on college campuses, he specializes in constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. Dialogues Across Difference focuses on modeling disagreement by elevating and encouraging dialogue.

Islamophobia: A Threat to All

45-801 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Dalia Mogahed is the former director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. She is a Muslim studies scholar, specializing in issues of gender, identity, and Islamophobia in America. Dialogues Across Difference focuses on modeling disagreement by elevating and encouraging dialogue.

What Hinges on Anti-Palestinian Racism

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Murad Idris is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research and teaching explores political theory, the history of political thought, and political theology. Dialogues Across Difference focuses on modeling disagreement by elevating and encouraging dialogue.