BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Global Dialogues Series | Citizenship and Belonging in Times o f Political Crisis X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260810T232755Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42299020283030 DTSTART:20230505T220000Z DTEND:20230505T230000Z DESCRIPTION:The temporality of political conflict extends beyond the snapsh ot encapsulated within a word like “crisis\,” putting people under pro longed states of distress\, emergency\, vulnerability\, and harm. In the p ast year alone millions around the world faced threats to their safety and security. Individuals experiencing violent conflicts in Iran\, Ukraine\, and Ethiopia joined those facing prolonged crises in places like Afghanist an\, Venezuela\, Yemen\, and Turkey. As countless flee across borders\, ad opt temporary homes elsewhere\, and practice new modes of relating to one ’s homeland and one’s community\, it is imperative for us to question: Is citizenship simply a legal status or does it describe a sense of belon ging? How does one’s identity as a citizen shift in times of crisis when human rights and rule of law are under attack? What does it mean to be po litically engaged during moments of unrest and armed conflict?\n\nCitizens hip and Belonging in Times of Political Crisis\, as part of the Global Dia logues series\, features three Stanford visiting scholars who were forced to leave their home countries. The panelists will share their personal sto ries and struggles of fighting for justice\, freedom\, and civil rights. J oin us on Friday\, May 5 at the Global Dialogues spring event as we discus s citizenship and belonging in times of political conflict.\n\nRegistratio n is required to attend. Please register at this link.\n\nThis event is he ld in partnership with the Stanford Scholar Rescue Fund\, which provides r esidencies to international scholars facing violence\, persecution\, or se vere hardship in their home countries.\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nYevgenia Albats\ , Distinguished Journalist in Residence\, Jordan Center for the Advanced S tudy of Russia\, NYU\; Editor and CEO\, The New Times\n\nDr. Yevgenia M. A lbats is a Russian investigative journalist\, political scientist\, author \, and radio host. Facing imprisonment for her coverage of the war in Ukra ine\, she had to leave Russia in late August of 2022. Currently\, she is a distinguished journalist in residence at the Jordan Center for Advanced S tudy of Russia of New York University and a lecturer in political science at NYU. For the last two decades\, Albats has been carrying two heads\, on e as a journalist\, and another as an academic\, focusing on the role of t he political police in the former USSR and Russia in particular.\n\nAlbats has been Political Editor and then Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The New Tim es\, a Moscow-based\, Russian language independent political weekly\, sinc e 2007. On February 28\, 2022\, Vladimir Putin blocked its website\, just days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Despite that\, Albats keeps running the newtimes.ru from exile. \n\nSince 2004\, Albats has hosted Absolute Alba ts\, a talk show on Echo Moskvy\, the only remaining liberal radio station in Russia. The radio station was taken off the air a week after the war i n Ukraine started. Albats moved her talk show Absolute Albats to her YouTu be channel\, which now enjoys more than 127K subscribers.\n\nAlbats was an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow assigned to the Chicago Tribune in 1990 and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. She graduated from Moscow S tate University in 1980 and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from H arvard University in 2004. She has been a member of the International Cons ortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since its founding in 1996. Alb ats taught at Yale from 2003-2004. She was a full-time professor at Moscow ’s Higher School of Economics\, teaching the institutional theory of the state and bureaucracy and the theory of regimes until 2011 when her cours es were banned at the request of top Kremlin officials. In 2022 Albats was awarded the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. In 2015 Albat s was awarded Tuft’s University Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award. In 2017\, Albats was chosen as an inaugural fellow at Kelly’s Writers H ouse and Perry House at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2019-2020 she taught authoritarian politics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Albats is the author of four independently researched books\, including o ne on the history of the Russian political police\, the KGB\, whose gradua tes are running the country today. She has a daughter and claims Moscow\, Russia\, as her home.\n\n \n\n\n\nElisabeth N. M. Ayuk-Etang\, Associate P rofessor of African Literature/Feminist Studies\, University of Buea\, Cam eroon\; Visiting Professor and IIE-SRF Fellow\, UCSB\n\nElisabeth N.M. Ayu k-Etang is a Cameroonian of English expression. She is Associate Professor of African Literature/Feminist Studies and former Chair of the Department of English at the University of Buea\, Cameroon\, and is currently a Visi ting Professor at the University of California\, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She holds a PhD in Black Women’s Writings and Ecofeminism from the Universi ty of Yaounde 1\, Cameroon. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and authored book chapters on the status of the Black Woman. Her research interest is on Cultural Studies\, Black Women Discourse and Sexu ality as well as Women\, Culture and Ecology in Africa. She is a recipient of several awards\, amongst which are the African Women Development Fund (AWDF\, 2019)\, CODESRIA’s Higher Education policy Initiative (HEPI 2019 )\, and the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholar (UMAPS) 20 15 fellowship. She is presently an International Institute of Education Sc holar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellow\, University of California\, Santa Bar bara (2022) and a recipient of the Janet Hannessey Dileschneider Scholar R escue Award of the Arts (2022).\n\n \n\n\n\nNasiruddin Nezaami\, Assistant Professor of Law\, American University of Afghanistan\; Visiting Professo r and IIE-SRF Fellow\, Stanford Law School\n\nNasiruddin Nezaami is assist ant professor of law and chair of the Law Department at the American Unive rsity of Afghanistan. He is currently a visiting fellow at Stanford Law Sc hool under the auspices of the Institute of International Education Schola r Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF). Mr. Nezaami has been teaching at the American Uni versity of Afghanistan for the past four years and has been chair of the D epartment of Law since the fall of 2019. He started his career as an assis tant professor of law at Kabul University in 2012 and has served as vice-d ean for the Faculty of Law and Political Science. Most recently\, he also assumed a role as research fellow at the Information Society Law Center at Milan. He has an LLM from the University of Washington\, and an LLB from Kabul University. Mr. Nezaami is country director for Afghanistan for the Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL) Association and serves as a peer reviewer for some prestigious international journals. Previously\, he has been a member of the Afghan Penal Code Commentary Committee where he wrote the commentary on cybercrimes and environmental crimes of the Afghan Penal Code. He has worked with a number of organizations as an independen t consultant. His publications include articles in law journals\, book cha pters\, and one book as a co-editor for Emerald Publishing.\n\nModerator\n \n\n\nGabriella Safran\, Eva Chernov Lokey Professor of Jewish Studies\; P rofessor of Slavic Languages and Literatures\; Senior Associate Dean\, Hum anities and Arts\n\nGabriella Safran teaches and writes on Russian literat ure\, Yiddish literature\, folklore\, and folkloristics. She has written o n Russian\, Polish\, Yiddish\, and French literatures and cultures.\n\nShe is the author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator\, S. An-sky (Harvar d\, 2010)\, a biography of an early-twentieth-century Russian-Yiddish writ er who was also an ethnographer\, a revolutionary\, and a wartime relief w orker.\n\nHer most recent monograph\, Recording Russia: Trying to Listen i n the Nineteenth Century (Cornell\, 2022)\, looks at how Russian subjects and visitors to the Russian Empire display their skills at listening to an d recording the words of "the people." It brings together intellectual his tory\, literary analysis\, linguistic anthropology\, and sound and media s tudies.\n\nShe is now working on a new book about the international pre-hi story of the Jewish joke. Drawing primarily on sources in Russian\, Englis h\, and Yiddish\, it asks when\, where\, and why Jewish voice began to be heard\, and recorded\, as distinctively humorous. GEO:37.426792;-122.164842 LOCATION:Encina Commons\, 123 SUMMARY:Global Dialogues Series | Citizenship and Belonging in Times of Pol itical Crisis URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/global_dialogues_series_cit izenship_and_belonging_in_times_of_political_crisis CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR