Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow at History of Art Gallery
TARIQ ALI (Novelist, historian, satirist, and filmmaker, Editor of the New Left Review and Director of Verso Books)
LECTURE:
THE BIRTH OF MODERN EUROPE & THE EXPULSION
OF MUSLIMS AND JEWS FROM SPAIN.
The fall of the Kingdom of Granada in 1492 coincided with the expulsion of Jews from Catholic Spain, while the Muslims were expelled in 1526. With these ethnic cleansings and forced conversions in place, a single-identity Europe was created. Virtually everything witnessed in 20th century Europe: the secret police, inquisitions, burning of heretics, Jews, gypsies, had all been experienced in late medieval Spain and Portugal. How does all this refract on contemporary Europe with large Muslim minorities numbering 24 million across the continent?
COSPONSORED BY:
THE HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART
AND CARL BECKER HOUSE
