[Mitai-announce] Amazing Series of Iraq War Events at Harvard Law School Next Week

[Paul Nauert]

Thought you might find these events interesting!

-Paul
*
Confronting Empire:** Five Years of War in Iraq
**A Series of Lectures and Events at Harvard Law School, March 17-19*
*Monday, March 17*
*On Empire & (Re)Colonization in the Middle East**, 5 pm, Austin Hall, West
Classroom*
*Hamid Dabashi <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mealac/faculty/dabashi/>*, Professor
of Iranian Studies, Columbia University, and Author of the
Forthcoming, *Islamic
Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire*
*Roger Owen<http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ehistory/facultyPage.cgi?id=32>
*, Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University, and Author, *State,
Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East*
*Duncan Kennedy*, Harvard Law School, Moderator
[Refreshments will be served.]

*Resisting Empire**,* *7 pm, Austin Hall, West Classroom*
*Catherine Lutz<http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/faculty/lutz.shtml>
*, Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, and Author, *Homefront: A
Military City and the American 20th Century*
*Karma Nabulsi<http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/staff.asp?action=show&person=59>
*, University Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford University, and
Author,* Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law*

*Tuesday, March 18*
*Accumulation through Crisis: Global Stagflation and the New Wars**, 3 pm,
Pound Hall, Room 107*
*Jonathan Nitzan <http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/>*, Professor of Political
Economy, York University, and Co-Author, *The Global Political Economy of
Israel*
*Talha Syed**, Harvard Law School, Discussant

*
*Empire and Nation-Building**, 5 pm, Pound Hall, Room 107*
*Noah Feldman<http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=544>
*, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Author, *What We Owe Iraq: War
and the Ethics of Nation-Building*
*Duncan Kennedy<http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=35>
*, Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School, and Author, *A
Critique of Adjudication*

*Wednesday, March 19*
*US Foreign Policy & Intervention in the Middle East**,* *12 pm, Austin
Hall, North Classroom*
*Irene Gendzier<http://www.bu.edu/polisci/people/faculty/gendzier/gendzier.html>
*, Professor of Political Science, Boston University, and Author, *Notes
>From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle
East*
*Howard Zinn<http://howardzinn.org/default/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=35>
*, Historian and Author, *A People's History of the United States*

*Iraq in Fragments,* *7 pm, Langdell Hall, South Classroom*
Screening of James Longley's *Iraq in Fragments<http://www.iraqinfragments.com/>
*, 2007 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
*Faras Adel, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Discussant*

For more information, go to harvardconfrontingempire.blogspot.com

*Brought to you by Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, HLS Peace,
Justice for Palestine at HLS, National Lawyers' Guild at HLS. Co-Sponsored
by Association for Justice in the Middle East and the KSG Arab Caucus.*


-- 
-Paul Gregory Nauert

Class of 2009
Harvard College

nauert at fas.harvard.edu
paulnauert at gmail.com