Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) VIJAY PRASHAD | Counterpunch | 13 November 2003 In mid-October, my email in-box began to receive forwards from Michael Bednar, a graduate student in the department of history at the University of Texas, Austin. The subject line suggested that it was an email joke: “Congress moves to regulate postcolonial studies.” Thanks to the vigilance
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robert Fisk | CounterPunch/Independent | 4 November 2003 Is “Palestinian” now just a dirty word? Or is “Arab” the dirty word? Let’s start with the late Edward Said, the brilliant and passionate Palestinian-American academic who wrote–among many other books–Orientalism, the ground-breaking work which first explored our imperial Western fantasies about the Middle East. After
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sarah Cassidy | Independent | 28 October 2003 An Oxford University professor who rejected a student because he was Israeli was suspended from the university yesterday and ordered to undergo equal opportunities training. In an unusual public statement spelling out the results of disciplinary proceedings, the university said Andrew Wilkie, an eminent pathology professor,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) AFP/Aljazeera | Aljazeera | 28 October 2003 One of Britain’s most prestigious centres of learning has suspended a professor who rejected an Israeli student’s application, reportedly because of the Jewish state’s mistreatment of Palestinians. The University of Oxford on Monday suspended Andrew Wilkie without pay for two months after he told Amit Duvshani there
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Arthur Neslen | Aljazeera | 29 October 2003 The decision by Oxford University to suspend a professor without pay for two months for refusing to teach a former Israeli soldier has ratcheted up campus tensions and may spark an academic rebellion. Andrew Wilkie, a pathology expert at the prestigious Pembroke College, was suspended on
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Basem L. Ra’ad | Al Quds University Web Site | March 2003 To understand the current hardships of Al Quds University and other Palestinian educational institutions, it is necessary to explore the geography of Israeli occupation. This geography shows the real colour of the degradation to which people are subjected and the effects of
» Read moreThe Department of English Language and Literature at the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, is recruiting academic members of staff in the field of Translation in various academic ranks: Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor. Applicants should meet the following conditions: PhD. in Translation or Linguistics An appropriate record of publications Appropriate teaching
» Read moreLinguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics, Language, Literature and Translation Conference Dates: November 3-5, 2016 Conference Location: Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman Call Deadline (Early Decision): 14 February 2016. Decision returned by 29 February Call Deadline (Regular): 11 April 2016. Decision returned by 2 May Meeting Description: Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World 2016 will provide a forum for
» Read moreClosing Date: 20 October 2015 The Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies (Chinese-English). The appointee will have the responsibility of undertaking independent teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the Chinese Studies program and also making a lead contribution to the course design, content and delivery of the new
» Read moreSociology Lens Paul Gilbert on September 28, 2015 Doubtless I am not alone among the contributors to Sociology Lens in having been exposed, during my first year as an undergraduate, to an array of foundational thinkers in sociology (and anthropology) who present human history as a movement away from ‘traditional’, ‘face–to–face’ or ‘kinship–based’ societies, towards those in which interaction and identity is less relational, and more individualized.
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