[MES Forum] Professor Charles Kurzman at Mershon

[McClimans, Melinda]

>From Forum Member, Dr. Eric Schoon:

Charles Kurzman will be coming to the Mershon the Mershon Center as part of the Centering the Global Periphery Cluster<https://mershoncenter.osu.edu/cgp> to give a talk titled “Citizenship Discrimination and the Transformation of Global Inequality”. Dr. Kurzman is Philip Stadter Distinguished Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of multiple books, including The Missing Martyrs<http://kurzman.unc.edu/the-missing-martyrs/> (2019), Democracy Denied, 1905-1915<http://kurzman.unc.edu/democracy-denied> (2008), and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran<http://kurzman.unc.edu/iran/> (2004), and editor of the anthologies Liberal Islam<http://kurzman.unc.edu/liberal-islam/> (1998) and Modernist Islam, 1840-1940<http://kurzman.unc.edu/modernist-islam/> (2002). His talk is on October 19, from 3:30-5pm in 1039 Derby Hall. The abstract for the talk is below. If you are available, please consider attending!

In addition to the talk, if you are interested in meeting with Professor Kurzman while he is here, please let me know. You can reach out to me at schoon.1 at osu.edu<mailto:schoon.1 at osu.edu>. I am in the process of arranging his schedule during the visit and he is interested in meeting with both faculty and grad students.

Best,
Eric

Abstract: Why are citizens of some countries so much richer, on average, than citizens of other countries? This project explores the very concept of citizenship as one of the key explanations for why the world is such an unequal place. At the same time as new methods of extraction and productivity have generated vast wealth over the last two centuries, new systems of governance have hoarded this wealth through limits on political rights and economic claims. Discrimination against non-citizens has reshaped inequality on a global scale -- from a world in which most inequality was within countries to a world in which most inequality is between countries.

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Eric W. Schoon (he/him)
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
113 Townshend Hall
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schoon.1 at osu.edu<mailto:schoon.1 at osu.edu>
Website: ewschoon.com<http://ewschoon.com>



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