BİLGİ Medya Talk Series: "The Radical Outside: New Formations of World Thought"

Date: May 13, 2015 Wednesday
Time: 15.00
Place: santralistanbul Campus, E4-Kale Room

Speaker: Asst. Prof. Dr. Jason M. Mohaghegh (Comparative Literature, Babson College)

BİLGİ Medya Talk Series is organized by İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Communication Department of Media.

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh:
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2004) is a professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His interest is in rising currents of radical thought in the Middle East and the West, with particular attention to exploring the concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, sectarianism, and apocalyptic thought. He has written four books to date—The Chaotic Imagination: New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Inflictions: The Writing of Violence in the Middle East (Continuum 2012), The Radical Unspoken: Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought (Routledge, 2013), and Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian: The Four Masks of an Eastern Postmodernism (SUNY Press, 2015)—and is also co-editor of the Suspensions book series (Bloomsbury).