A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures by Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Professor of History This groundbreaking, born-digital work invites readers to imagine Islam anew. Moving beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures decenters Islam from a geographical identification with the Middle … A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures
Trojan Women in Performance By Avery Willis Hoffman, Inaugural Artistic Director, Brown Arts Institute, Professor of the Practice of Arts and Classics As the classics and the Western Canon endure a new round of decolonization and dismantling efforts, along with the scrutiny of those wishing to make space for a diversity of storytelling and more … Trojan Women in Performance
Grounds for Reclamation: Fascism and Postfascism in the Marshes by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies Grounds for Reclamation: Fascism and Postfascism in the Marshes focuses on the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes south of Rome during two phases of its existence: first, under the fascist regime; second, in the content of recent … Grounds for Reclamation
On Seeing is a new publication series devoted to visual literacy. Publications foreground the political agency, critical insight, and social impact inscribed in representation. Centering underrepresented perspectives and understudied questions, these books articulate complex ideas about how we see, comprehend, and participate in the visual world. The MIT Press will publish each On Seeing volume … On Seeing Series
Border Assemblages: Re-collecting Moria by Yannis Hamilakis, Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies Merging scholarship and activism, this project focuses on the largest migrant-refugee camp in Europe, Moria, located on the island of Lesvos in Greece, in what is effectively a borderline between the Global South and the Global North. … Border Assemblages
