In honor of Arab American History Month; tea and refreshments will be served.
Lisa Bhungalia is a postdoctoral fellow in OSU’s Department of Geography. For the April conversation at Thompson, Dr. Bhungalia will discuss her current research on the intersection of liberal war, national securitization, and transnational linkages and encounters between the U.S. and the North Africa/Middle East region. Based on research conducted in Israel/Palestine, her talk examines transnational articulations of U.S. national securitization tracing in particular how U.S. counterterrorism laws and polices shape American civilian aid programs to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Then attending to domestic dimensions of the “war on terror,” she explores how American counterterrorism strategies are being transmitted, adapted, and refined within the United States. Attention is afforded in particular to recent court cases involving prosecutions of Arab and Muslim charities under U.S. material support legislation and to the broader impacts of these prosecutions on political organizing in the United States and charitable giving abroad.
About the speaker:
Lisa joined the Department of Geography at Ohio State University as a SBS Postdoctoral Fellow in the fall of 2014. She comes to OSU from Syracuse University where she received her PhD in Geography in December 2013 and also held a postdoctoral fellowship in the humanities for the 2013-14 academic year.
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