On Oct. 10 and 12, Heschel (Jewish Studies) was part of a faculty contingent who helped lead the College’s public discussion of the latest war in the Middle East, an effort that garnered international admiration. In this PEP talk, the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor traces the roots of her pedagogy to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
Wednesday May 8 at 4:30 pm, Rocky 1.
Ezzedine Fishere (MES), Thoughts on Israel/Palestine
On Oct. 10 and 12, Fishere (Middle Eastern Studies) was part of a faculty contingent who helped lead the College’s public discussion of the latest war in the Middle East, an effort that garnered international admiration. In this PEP talk, the diplomat, novelist, scholar and Washington Post columnist shares some of his reflections on the current situation.
Once one of the richest countries in the world, Argentina long ago fell into a cycle of recurring debt crises, devaluations, and defaults. Despite its erratic politics, the corporatist system that Juan Domingo Peron set up some 80 years ago on the model of Mussolini’s Italy has been a constant in the country’s political economy. How has that system worked? How should we understand the rise of the new president Javier Milei? Will the current crisis finally put an end to Argentina’s corporatist republic? Ian Vasquez will try to make sense of Argentina’s current moment and of the country’s path from prosperity to poverty.
A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Vasquez is coauthor of the Human Freedom Index, editor of Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism, and coeditor of Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF and the Developing World. He has testified numerous times in the U.S. Congress on economic development issues.
Ishac Diwan, The Modernization of Saudi Arabia Today
Ishac Diwan is one of the most distinguished experts on the political economy of the contemporary Middle East. His talk will focus on the forces shaping the recent big push for a more diversified development in Saudi Arabia through its Gulf Cooperation Council of participating states — including the fashioning of a new social pact that emphasizes the values of work, the development of a private sector that creates wealth and moves away from rent-seeking, and a global positioning that could allow the kingdom to remain the main remaining oil producer in 2050. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Studies program and the Political Economy Project.
Check out our "News and Events" page for information on two exciting new initiatives from the Political Economy Project: Our faculty co-teaching grants for "Exploring Disagreements in the Classroom," and our student grants for "Exploring Disagreements in Independent Research."