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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, February 07, 2025 3:00 pm to 5:00
  pm \n Zoom / 200 B \n Bancroft Building \n 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto ON M5
 S 1C1 \n\nSpeakers \nMiray Philips (University of Toronto) \n\nDescription
 : \nA perception that Christianity is under attack has animated contempora
 ry American political culture, driving domestic policies that advance Chr
 istian political power and foreign policies to protect Christians globally
 . In this talk, I specifically ow conservative American Christians approp
 riate the suffering of Christians in the Middle East to claim that Christi
 ans everywhere, including in the United States, are persecuted. Drawing 
 on the literature of global memory cultures, I argue that the localizatio
 n of Christian persecution is facilitated by conservative American Christi
 ans who act as members of transnational memory networks, transmitting ima
 ges and memories of Christian persecution from the Middle East to the Unit
 ed States. In doing so, they transform nation-specific experiences of suf
 fering to a universal injury of Christian persecution, expanding the cate
 gory of victim to include all Christians everywhere.Miray Philips is an As
 sistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her work focu
 ses on the transnational politics, meaning, and memory of violence and s
 uffering between the United States and the Middle East. Her current book p
 roject explores conflictual representations of religious difference in the
  context of the global war on terror. Empirically, it examines claims-mak
 ing by various transnational actors on behalf of Christians in the Middle 
 East, and specifically Copts in Egypt. Her collaborative projects investi
 gate knowledge production and collective memories of mass violence, speci
 fically in Syria. Her research is published in scholarly journals such as 
 the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Memory Studies, and the Minn
 esota Journal of International Law. Miray Philips also engages in public-f
 acing work and currently sits on the Board of Advisors of the Tahrir Insti
 tute for Middle East Policy.Zoom registration \n\nSponsors \nMichael E. Ma
 rmura Lecture Series in Arabic Studies,Department for Near & Middle Easte
 rn Civilizations \nMap \n4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto ON M5S 1C1 \n\nCategorie
 s \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n U of T CommunityGraduate StudentsUndergradua
 te Students
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LOCATION:4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto ON M5S 1C1
SUMMARY:'The Transnational Politics of Christian Persecution'
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/transnational-politics
 -christian-persecution
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