TWO GREAT EVENTS YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS: MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29^TH:

FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS:

Is the two-state solution dead? What is the alternative?

Prof. Khalil Shikaki and Prof. Shai Feldman, Brandeis University

Moderator: Prof. Richard Flanagan,

CSI Dept. of Political Science & Global Affairs

Thursday, Oct. 29th, 2:30 – 4 p.m.

The Performing Arts Center (1P),

Room 223 (Screening Room)

Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs

Professors Feldman and Shikaki are co-authors of a new book entitled Palestinians and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East. They will discuss the current stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian relations, drivers behind the conflict, and implications for both sides using data from a large-scale survey project measuring public opinion in both Palestine and Israel. They will also discuss necessary next steps for Israel and Palestine, the U.S., and the international community in order to ensure peace in the region.

Prof. Khalil Shikaki is Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, and Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. A world-renowned expert on Palestinian public opinion and a widely published author, he has taught at several institutions, including Birzeit University, An-Najah National University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of South Florida. He was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC in 2002.

Prof. Shai Feldman is the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics at Brandeis University. He is a Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard University’s Belfer Center and an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute in London. From 1997 to 2005, he was Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and in 2001-2003, he served as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.

This event is CLUE certified.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4^TH

The CSI Legal Studies Institute Presents:

Studies in Race, Crime, and Public Policy

Naomi Murakawa

Associate Professor of African-American Studies

Princeton University

“The First Civil Right: 

How Liberals Built Prison America”

Wednesday, November 4^th

5:00 p.m.

Williamson Theatre

Center for the Performing Arts

Reception to Follow

Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She studies the reproduction of racial inequality in 20^th and 21^st century American politics, with specialization in crime policy and the carceral state. She is the author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Oxford University Press, 2014).  Professor Murakawa received her B.A. in women’s studies from Columbia University, her M.Sc. in social policy from the London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.  

Sponsored by the CSI Legal Studies Institute, The Campus Activities Board (with student activities fees),

 the CSI Student Government Association, and the Staten Island Foundation.  This is a CLUE certified event.