“Teaching Against Race and Racism: Addressing Contemporary AntiSemitism, Islamophobia and Xenophobia” with Uzi Baram
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Online Event
4 PM New York l 10 PM Vienna
AltLiberalArts presents a webinar with Uzi Baram, exploring how teaching on the history of race facilitates addressing social ills of our times including antisemitism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.
Race and racism continue to haunt our world, with social divides reflecting and accelerating inequalities and inequities. Teaching on race and racism is part of a liberal arts education but has been mocked as woke in current political discourse.
Baram will reflect on a quarter century of teaching a course on race and ethnicity at New College of Florida, where he has taught archaeology and cultural anthropology courses, supervised nearly one hundred theses, created the New College Public Archaeology Lab with its commitment to radical openness and community engagement, and published on the archaeology of the Ottoman Empire, the southern route of the Underground Railroad, and on heritage.
Uzi Baram, born in Haifa, Israel and raised on Long Island, New York, obtained a BA in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton and MA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts focused on the archaeology of the recent past.