Abstract:

This event features a discussion on how conflicts such as the current one in Israel/Palestine should be handled by campus communities, and the need for a different approach with a focus on ensuring a deeper, more educated understanding of the conflict, how to continue constructive dialogue, and build a supportive community.

Speakers:

Professor Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai, Visiting Professor of Government at Dartmouth is also an Adjunct Professor of Business at the Hebrew University, and formerly taught at MIT and Duke. A Guggenheim fellow, he is the author of 'The Tragedy of Zionism,’ 'A New Israel,' 'The Hebrew Republic,' and 'Promiscuous: Portnoy's Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness.' He contributes regularly on political economy and Israeli affairs to the New Yorker; and has written dozens of articles for Harper's, The New York Review, The Nation and New York Times Magazine. He is a former editor of Harvard Business Review, and International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG.

Professor Ezzedine C. Fishere

Ezzedine C. Fishere teaches courses on Middle East politics. He is also a novelist and a contributing columnist at the Washington Post. Before coming to Dartmouth in September 2016, he taught at the Political Science department of the American University in Cairo, worked as a diplomat, wrote novels and – since the Tahrir Uprising, got engaged in Egyptian politics. This includes advising pro-democracy political groups, writing and speaking about Middle East political realities. Fishere has  diplomatic experience both with Egyptian Foreign Service and the United Nations missions in the Middle East and East Africa. 

Moderators:

Professor Hoda Mahmoudi

Hoda Mahmoudi has held The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park since 2012. As director of this endowed academic program, Professor Mahmoudi collaborates with a wide range of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to advance interdisciplinary analysis and open discourse on global peace. Prior to that, Dr. Mahmoudi was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Illinois University, where she was also a faculty member in the Department of Sociology. Professor Mahmoudi is co-author of A World Without War (Bahá’í Publishing, 2020), co-editor of Women and Inequality in a Changing World (Routledge, 2023), co-editor of Infrastructure, Wellbeing and the measurement of Happiness (Routledge, 2023),  co-editor of Fundamental Challenges to Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and co-editor of Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change (Routledge, 2022). She is also co-editor of The Changing Ethos of Human Rights (Elgar, 2021), co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights (Emerald, 2019), and of Children and Globalization; Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). 

Dr. Kate Seaman

Kate Seaman is Assistant Director of The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland. Dr. Seaman previously held positions at the University of Baltimore, the University of Bath and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Dr. Seaman received her Ph.D. from Lancaster University. She is the author of UN-tied Nations; The UN, Peacekeeping and the development of global security governance (Ashgate, 2014).  Dr. Seaman is the co-editor of Women and Inequality in a Changing World (Routledge, 2023), co-editor of Infrastructure, Wellbeing, and the Measurement of Happiness (Routledge, 2023),o-editor of Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and  co-editor of The Changing Ethos of Human Rights (Elgar, 2021). Her research has also been published in the journals Global Governance, and Politics and Governance.