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An audio recording of a public talk by Hilary Falb Kalisman, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and Visiting Scholar of Middle East Studies, Brown University.
On December 3, 2015, Hilary Kalisman presented her research examining the transition from limited and colonial to mass and national public education in Iraq, Palestine and Jordan during the formative period of the nation state in the region. She argued that government education represented both a stepping stone to political office, and a site of anti-government protest. More broadly, she posited that the incorporation of educated individuals into government service blunted their revolutionary activities until mass education overwhelmed each government's capacity to employ its educated populations.
Listen to the full recording of Dr. Kalisman's December 3, 2015 talk below:
For more about Dr. Kalisman and the event, click here.