The Amazigh Studies Initiative (AMASI) is a multiyear program that is co-started and co-led by Aomar Boum (UCLA) and Brahim El Guabli (Johns Hopkins). AMASI aims to contribute to the renewal and consolidation of the field of Amazigh Studies, which has been overlooked in the last three decades despite its vibrancy and regardless of the phenomenal output of Imazighen, the Indigenous people of Tamazgha (the broader North Africa). AMASI benefited from the generosity of the Robert Lemelson Foundation, which granted the UCLA Division of Humanities a gift to support this project. UCLA is not a stranger to Amazigh studies. In fact, Gustave E. von Grunebaum, the founder of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies in 1957, established the first Amazigh Studies Department in the United States, which would continue to exist at UCLA until 1994.
Please join us to celebrate the AMASI’s achievements in the last three years and to thank Dr. Robert Lemelson for his foundation’s generous support for this project.
Panelists:
David Crawford (Fairfield University)
Paul Silverstein (Reed College)
Aomar Boum (UCLA)
Brahim El Guabli (John Hopkins University)
Lunch will be served
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The John Hopkins-UCLA Amazigh Studies Initiative in the United States