Apr 24
Al-Andalus and Palestine: Past, Present, Future - Professor Eric Calderwood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thu, April 24, 2025
• 8:00pm
- 9:00pm (1h) • Leighton 304
The Ira Wender Lecture Series for Middle Eastern Cultural Understanding proudly presents a lecture by Eric Calderwood, Professor of Comparative Literature and LAS Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Title: Al-Andalus and Palestine: Past, Present, Future
*Al-Andalus is Medieval Islamic Spain
In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde in 1983, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish called Palestine “the Andalus of the possible.” Taking a cue from Darwish’s words, in this talk Professor Calderwood will ask: what has the memory of al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) made possible for Palestinian writers and thinkers?
Event Contact: Christine Hamp
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