Master’s program in Digital Cultural Heritage

Join The American University in Cairo Press for a virtual book discussion of Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual by Nubar Hovsepian (AUC Press, 2025), a profound exploration of the life, work, and legacy of one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers and the foremost advocate for the Palestinian cause in the West. In this special event, author Nubar Hovsepian will be in conversation with acclaimed journalist, interviewer, and award-winning radio host David Barsamian, founder of Alternative Radio.

Together, they will explore the political, cultural, and personal dimensions of Edward Said’s thought—from his groundbreaking work Orientalism to his enduring advocacy for Palestinian rights and his vision for justice and humanism in global affairs. The conversation will also reflect on Said’s relevance in today’s world and Hovsepian’s unique insights as both a scholar and someone who knew Said personally.

About the Author:

Nubar Hovsepian (Author) is associate professor emeritus of political science at Chapman University in Orange, California. He is the author of Palestinian State Formation: Education and the Construction of National Identity, and he edited and contributed to The War on Lebanon.  He is the author of books on Palestine and Lebanon, and editor of several books including on the Iranian revolution. Hovsepian has devoted enormous time to the Israel/Palestine conflict, and served, from 1982 to 1984, as political affairs officer for the United Nations Conference on the Question of Palestine.

About the Discussant:

One of America’s most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio program, Alternative Radio—38 years and running— and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His latest books are Culture and Resistance, Retargeting Iran, Chronicles of Dissent and Notes on Resistance. His forthcoming book from Haymarket in March 2024 is with Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire. David lectures on world affairs, imperialism, capitalism, propaganda, the media and global rebellions.

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Since 2023, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has been working with researchers from Shift Collective on an assessment of the Recordings at Risk program. This team has just released a survey designed to collect impressions of the program from anyone who has previously considered applying for, applied for, or received a Recordings at Risk grant. If this describes you, you are invited to complete the survey at:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KM9ZHVC

The survey should take about 15-20 minutes to complete.

Shift Collective are managing this survey independently and will not share respondents’ identifying information with CLIR staff. Results will inform a forthcoming public report to be published by CLIR.

Questions about the survey, the program assessment, or general questions about Recordings at Risk can be addressed to recordingsatrisk@clir.org.

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

Manioc was domesticated some 8,000 years ago in southwest Amazonia and has since become the staple food of the region’s indigenous peoples. Since colonial times, Europeans have viewed it with suspicion, opposing it to grains. One Jesuit priest even proposed uprooting all manioc and replacing it with wheat. More recently, tubers and tuberous roots, characteristic of tropical agriculture, have been associated with political decentralization and the absence of the state. They would be state-evading crops. In this talk, Carlos Fausto will investigate this idea using ethnographic and archaeological data from an indigenous Amazonian society, whose political-ritual economy revolves around chiefs and their grandeur.

Dr. Fausto is a professor of anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He served as a visiting scholar at the universities of Chicago, Stanford and Cambridge, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, both in France. He has been conducting fieldwork among indigenous peoples in Amazonia since 1988, most notably with the Tupi-speaking Parakanã and the Karib-speaking Kuikuro. His most recent books are “Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia, Art Effects: Image, Agency and Ritual in Amazonia,” and the co-edited volume “Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations.” He is also a photographer and a documentary filmmaker, having co-directed the award-winning feature film “The Hyperwomen.”

Dr. Fausto is currently Visiting Professor of Anthropology and Global Scholar at Princeton University’s Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Brazil LAB.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, with support from the William R. Rhodes Latin American Fund. It is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Augmented Reality Experience Brings Ancient Assyrian Sculptures to Life at Harvard Museum

A new Snapchat lens Art of Intimidation: Journey to Ancient Assyria can be used in the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East to bring Assyrian palace sculptures to life. Borrow an iPad at the museum or use your own device.

Want to try it now?

The best experience is in the gallery, but you can use it anywhere. Open Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East’s 3D virtual tour on a device. Navigate to the virtual third floor gallery, open Snapchat on your phone, search “Intimidation Art” and point the phone at the wall panels. The animation will begin!

• Read the full press release to learn more the experience, the games that inspired it, and the scholarship behind it.
• Watch The Making of Art of Intimidation video (7:06) to see the experience in action

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