CIS is delighted to announce that our visiting scholar, Dr. Nargis Virani, Chair of the AAR Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, has organized a plenary session at the AAR in collaboration with all the AAR standing committees. The plenary is titled, Recolonizing the Academy Under a Trump Presidency. Sunday, November 19, 5-6:30pm.
Carol Bier, Historian of Islamic Art and CIS Research Scholar, will be making a presentation based on her recent study trip to Uzbekistan, Knowledge & Diversity: Historical Crafts and Technologies in Uzbekistan Today. Wednesday, November 29, 1-3pm, GTU library board room.
Congratulations to Carol Bier who is serving as guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (Taylor & Francis, London), on “Math and Art: Honoring the Memory of Reza Sarhangi (1952-2016), with a particular focus on Persian art and architecture.
CIS is proud to acknowledge the leadership of our students and graduates, who will continue to host conversations and an artists’ forum, based on the current CIS 10th anniversary exhibition, Knowledge & Diversity, showcased in the GTU library. Please see www.gtu.edu/cis for announcement details or contact CIS program coordinator Mahjabeen Dhala: mdhala@gtu.edu.