Events - BCSR Events - February 2, 2023

Is Religious Intolerance Racist? The “Heathen” and the White Savior in American History

Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance

February 02, 2023 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building

Kathryn Lum, Associate Professor of Religious Studies in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and History, Stanford University

What is the relationship between religious intolerance and racism? This talk focuses on the American history of attitudes toward the “heathen” and asks whether we might consider religious intolerance to be racist and the “heathen” to be a racial figure. Some scholars have maintained that race requires a perception that the Other is innately different […]

Is Religious Intolerance Racist? The “Heathen” and the White Savior in American History

Saharan Vichy Camps between Memory and Memorialization: A Graphic History

Co-sponsored Event

February 02, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm / Add to Google
Sultan Room, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 340 Stephens Hall

Free event | Register here

Aomar Boum, Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles

In the last decade, graphic memoirs and novels have emerged as a significant form of historical (re)writing of past narratives and events. The medium of comics and its use of chronologically ordered panels allows the reader to create meanings through the combination of image and text. Aomar Boum argues for the use of graphic memoirs […]

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