Questions of Belonging: Agency, Erasure, and Visibility in Germany and the U.S.

Description

Sara Rahnama, an assistant professor at Morgan State University, will moderate a roundtable conversation about white supremacy, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-immigrant, and anti-LGBTQ+ policies with Mohamed Amjahid, acclaimed book author and journalist, and Armin Langer, a DAAD visiting assistant professor at the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida at Gainesville. All interested Johns Hopkins and Morgan State affiliates are welcome to join this hybrid roundtable; to attend virtually, please use the Zoom link.

About the Event

This event is hosted in partnership with the departments of World Languages and International Studies and of History, Geography, and Museum Studies at Morgan State. The roundtable is part of an event series that receives generous funding from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Department of History, and the programs in Race, Immigration, and Citizenship; Jewish Studies; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Transportation

Transportation from Homewood campus will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis (40 people maximum). The bus departs from the Beach at 1:15 p.m. and returns to Johns Hopkins by 3 p.m. If necessary, additional Lyft passes can be made available upon request.

About the Speakers

Mohamed Amjahid is a freelance investigative journalist and book author. He regularly researches various topics such as police violence in Germany or the upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa for several major media outlets in Germany. In 2017, he published his debut Among Whites: What It Means to Be Privileged with Hanser Berlin. His second book Whitewash: A Guide to Antiracist Thinking was published by Piper-Verlag in 2021. In September 2022, his new book, Let's Talk about Sex, Habibi: Love and Desire from Casablanca to Cairo, was also published by Piper.

Armin Langer currently serves a DAAD Assistant Professor at the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida. He holds a PhD in sociology from the Humboldt University of Berlin and studied philosophy and Jewish studies in Budapest, Jerusalem, Potsdam, and Washington, D.C. He was ordained as a rabbi by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia and has held teaching and pulpit positions in Jewish communities in the U.S., Mexico, Sweden, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. As an author, he has published in popular media outlets and academic journals alike.