Facilitating campus discourse about the Israel-Hamas conflict will be the focus of a virtual event next week featuring two professors from Dartmouth College.
“Navigating Civil Dialogue in the Context of the War in the Middle East” will be held Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 10:30 a.m. ET via .
Tarek El-Ariss (left) and Susannah Heschel
The professors—, James Wright Professor and chair of Middle Eastern Studies, and , Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of Jewish Studies—will share insights and relate details about the ways they have sought to educate and listen to students in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. The pair recently discussed their approach to these issues in an .
Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer will offer opening remarks. , Kramer Director of the ϲ Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship, will serve as moderator.
The event, sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, is open to the University community. A Q&A session will follow the discussion, which can be on Nov. 28 at 10:30 a.m.
Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided. For more information, contact Sarah McAndrew at provost@syr.edu.
