The Department of Political Science, The Office of Academic Programs and The Center for International Human Rights cordially invites you to Antisemitism, Islamophobia & the Preservation of Universities as a Space for Academic Deliberations
Brief remarks followed by break-out sessions involving the presenters and attendees.
Speaker: Mucahit Bilici
Mucahit Bilici is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Finding Mecca in America: How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and co-author of Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another (University of California Press, 2024), with Samuel Heilman. His research interests include American Islam, Muslim Studies, Kurdish identity and Turkish society.
Speaker: Jack Jacobs
Jack Jacobs is Professor of Political Science at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" after Marx (New York University Press 1992), of Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (Syracuse University Press, 2009) and of The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (New York University Press, 2001) and of Jews and Leftist Politics. Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Moderator: Avram Bornstein
Avram Bornstein is Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College. He is the author of Crossing the Green Line between the West Bank and Israel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) and articles based on ethnographic research in Israel-Palestine and criminal justice pedagogy in the US.
This event is co-sponsored by: MA in Human Rights Program & International Crime & Justice Master of Arts Program
