The Aftermath of the Assassination of Qassem Soleimani
When:
Friday, February 14, 2020
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, Pick-Laudati Auditorium, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Tim McLellan
Group: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Co-Sponsor:
Block Museum of Art
Middle East and North African Studies
WCCIAS
Category: Global & Civic Engagement
Description:
The assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the subsequent shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shook the world. But how do people in Iran make sense of these events and their political ramifications in the Middle East? What do these events mean to Iranian diaspora here in the US? And how are these events shaping the ways that Americans think about Iran and the Middle East? Join our panel of Northwestern faculty, students and staff at the Block Museum to explore these questions and to discuss the social context to recent geopolitical events.
Panel:
Foorogh Farhang, PhD candidate in Anthropology
Shirin Vossoughi, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences
Danny Postel, Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies (moderator)