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Featured Event
Tuesday, Nov. 18 | 5:00-7:00 PM | UCSB Multicultural Center
Join us for Diaspora Dialogues, an evening of storytelling and community. Students and campus members are invited to share personal experiences of migration, displacement, and belonging, highlighting not just loss, but also resilience, adaptation, and joy. This event will remind us that diasporas are not monolithic, while uncovering the threads that connect us across our differences. Come listen, share, and build solidarity in the community. Dinner will be provided!
Co-Sponsors: EOP Cultural Centers, Office of International Students & Scholars (OISS), Undocumented Students Services. All are welcome to attend!
Point of Pride
CMES Director Sherene Seikaly Received Fellowship
CMES Director Sherene Seikaly (History) has received a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will be working on her book From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine that charts the trajectory of her great-grandfather Naim Cotran (c. 1877-1961) from nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon. The book places the question of Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession.