Campus Watch reports the following from November 10 - 17, 2019:
Howler of the Month
“The intelligent-but-lost zombie character is brought to the very edge of anxious modernity. They have to look past modernity and colonialism and also reflect on their pasts to make sense of it all.”
University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Samuel England in a lecture on “Arab Zombie Arts” at Binghamton University; October 31, 2019.
Campus Watch Research
Will Bias Land Sarah Ihmoud a Job at Boston University? (David Gerstman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59886/will-bias-land-ihmoud-a-job-at-bu
Campus Watch Blog
MESA’s Statement Defending Academic Freedom and Condemning Anti-Semitism Does Just the Opposite: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59907/mesa-statement-defending-academic-freedom
Why is Marc Lamont Hill Giving the Keynote Address at MESA?: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59899/why-is-marc-lamont-hill-giving-the-keynote
Will Bias Land Sarah Ihmoud a Job at Boston University? (highlights Gerstman’s article): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59887/will-bias-land-sarah-ihmoud-a-job-at-boston
Middle East Studies in the News
U. of Warwick (UK) prof Goldie Osuri, who was accused of spreading “anti-Semitic conspiracies” in a recent lecture, included a quote from Columbia U. prof Hamid Dabashi in her presentation: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59921/warwick-lecturer-directs-students-to-jvl-website
On a new Arabic club “filling the gap” at Bowdoin College, where there is no Arabic or Middle East studies department (incl. lecturer Russell Hopley, postdoc. Pamela Klasova): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59919/new-arabic-club-promotes-language-culture-incl
New York U’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute denies a student’s request to host a Zionist speaker in response to it hosting anti-Israel Rutgers prof Noura Erakat: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59916/nyu-department-co-sponsors-anti-israel-speaker
IPT on Columbia prof Joseph Massad endorsing terrorism against Israel in a talk at the Palestine Center: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59909/tenured-columbia-professor-endorses-terrorism
Gary Fouse on U. of Michigan’s Juan Cole endorsing the European Court of Justice’s decision to label Israeli products produced in the West Bank: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59922/juan-cole-and-the-landmark-decision-by
UCLA prof James Gelvin gave a lecture in Oct. on Turkey and the Syrian Kurds that was co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59918/turkey-war-against-the-syrian-kurds-on-james
UNC agrees to a resolution with the Dept of Education over an anti-Semitism complaint concerning a March Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies-sponsored conference on Gaza: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59912/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill
The NYU Student Government Assembly’s recent “letters of support” incl. one for the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies against the DoE’s criticism (incl. Zachary Lockman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59896/student-government-letters-of-support-seek-to
Clarion Project on a new law in Saudi Arabia that will allow foreign universities to open campuses in the kingdom (references Saudi funding for US universities): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59904/will-the-saudis-new-foreign-university-law-be
U. of Southern California “scholar of global Islam” Ken Chitwood claims ISIS is “hijacking” the “historic institution” of the caliphate: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59923/what-is-a-caliph-the-islamic-state-tries-to-boost
The Armenian National Committee of America-Eastern Region honors Clark U. prof Taner Akcam with the Freedom Award: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59903/the-fight-for-a-right-anca-er-dedicates-annual
Rice U. prof Craig Considine hosts members of the “Latinx-Muslim” organization IslamInSpanish to speak to his class, “Muslims in America": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59902/latinx-muslims-speak-on-their-experiences-in
Speaking in Malaysia, UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian claims that “Islamophobia” peaks after elections in the West, not after terrorist attacks: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59894/islamophobia-peaks-after-polls-not-terror-attacks
Grand Valley State U’s Middle Eastern Studies Program co-sponsors a film festival (incl. Majd Al-Mallah): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59893/film-festival-interacts-with-culture-incl-majd-al
Luther College prof Todd Green discusses “Islamophobia” at a “Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam” in Minnesota: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59901/author-islamophobia-carries-same-air-as-racism-in
Daniel Lehmann, the new president of Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, on his plans for overcoming division: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59895/gtu-new-jewish-president-on-spiritual-care-in
On Boston University’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Program considering hiring anti-Israel postdoctoral associate Sarah Ihmoud, who was rejected by the sociology department:
The Algemeiner (Richard Cravatts; incl. Rutgers prof Jasbir Puar): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59910/pseudo-scholarship-and-the-resurrection-of
The Daily Free Press (Boston University): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59908/bu-women-gender-and-sexuality-studies-potential
The Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59888/anti-israel-academic-sarah-ihmoud-rejected-for
PJ Media (Robert Spencer): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59905/boston-university-set-to-hire-professor-who
On Indiana University Bloomington’s Center for the Study of the Middle East apologizing for including a flier in its newsletter featuring a cartoon by anti-Semitic Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff:
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59892/middle-east-center-at-indiana-university
Indiana Daily Student: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59891/center-for-the-study-of-the-middle-east
Moonlighters
NGO Monitor’s Gerald Steinberg reviews Cary Nelson’s book, Israel Denial (incl. Rutgers’ Jasbir Puar, Steven Salaita, UCLA’s Saree Makdisi, UC Berkeley’s Judith Butler): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59917/israel-denial-lays-bare-academic-attempts-to
Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill delivers a lecture at St. Olaf College: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59920/marc-lamont-hill-lectures-in-boe-chapel
