PON Live! Teaching Negotiation in Prison
PON speaker Max Bevilacqua, Managing Director at Mindful Negotiating, will share his experiences teaching in a medium-security Men’s prison in Massachusetts through Tufts University’s Prison Initiative at Tisch College. What are the considerations of teaching negotiation and conflict resolution inside a prison? How do teachers manage their biases, the self-segregation of students in the classroom, […]
Mohsen Kadivar, The Genealogy of the Death Penalty for Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam
Description On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Mohsen Kadivar (Duke University) will present “The Genealogy of the Death Penalty for Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam.” This talk examines a few ḥadith that are attributed to the Prophet that support a penalty for apostasy, especially execution, that have been the foundation […]
Sarah Savant, A Cultural History of the Arabic Book: Digital Explorations of Writerly Practices and Text Reuse
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Sarah Savant (Aga Khan University) will present “A Cultural History of the Arabic Book: Digital Explorations of Writerly Practices and Text Reuse.” This talk explores how one could reconstruct how major authors in the Arabic language from the eighth to sixteenth centuries wrote […]