Unpacking Canada’s cruel history: lessons from a Pulitzer-winning podcast
Predictors of psychological stress in the field
The art of graphic journalism: lessons from WaPo's Searching for Maura project
Corey Crossan
Corey Crossan is a research and teaching fellow at The Oxford Character Project where she develops and facilitates character development programs for students, industry, and university partners. Her research examines how character can be developed and its impact on performance and well-being. Her undergraduate work in Exercise Science inspired her unique application of exercise and habit development towards her research that shed light on what it takes to implement a daily practice of character development.
Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
What have the Arab Uprisings done to “Contemporary Arab Thought”?
Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the 'Coolie' in Indian Diplomatic History
This talk explores the histories, journeys, and legacies of 'coolie' migrants as central to the making of Indian diplomacy. I argue that the Indian state framed the 'international' realm as a sanctified space to negotiate what it deemed the 'coolie stain' on its reputation, a discourse shaped by the intersections of caste and class. While examining indenture and the regulation of mobility as intrinsic to postcolonial Indian diplomacy, I also seek to foreground how these migrants themselves actively conceptualised their international status.
Single Motherhood, Celebrities, and Popular Culture in Egypt
Biography: “I am a social and cultural historian of the modern Middle East. My work focuses on gender, sexuality, working classes, and popular culture. I have authored many academic publications, most notably Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt from the UT Press 2016 and Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt from Stanford University Press.
Floating Weeds: Water Hyacinth and the Egyptian Anthropocene
Short biography: Pascal Menoret is the director of the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation in Cairo (CEDEJ) and the Renée and Lester Crown Professor of Modern Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, where he teaches in the Department of Anthropology. His research interests include infrastructure, urban planning, ecology, and energy. He has conducted field research in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.