{"id":155434,"date":"2020-10-28T05:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=155434"},"modified":"2020-10-29T16:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:09:41","slug":"singh-presents-to-middle-east-studies-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/10\/28\/singh-presents-to-middle-east-studies-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Singh Presents to Middle East Studies Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_145380\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145380\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145380\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Singh-Ranjit10-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"Associate Professor Ranjit Singh, Department of Political Science and International Affairs\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Singh-Ranjit10-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Singh-Ranjit10-768x1047.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Singh-Ranjit10-751x1024.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-145380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate Professor Ranjit Singh, Department of Political Science and International Affairs<\/p><\/div><p>Associate Professor Ranjit Singh of the Political Science and International Affairs department presented his paper &ldquo;Arguing BDS: Reflections of Teaching Undergraduates about Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions&rdquo; to the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on October 15, 2020. Singh&rsquo;s paper reflects on his experiences teaching a 2019 seminar titled &ldquo;Political Dissent in the Middle East.&rdquo; His paper was sponsored by MESA&rsquo;s Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies, which he helped to found ten years ago.<\/p><p>Also at the MESA conference, Singh served as a discussant for papers accepted to the Committee&rsquo;s forum on undergraduate research. Sarah Pietrowski, a UMW Political Science senior, successfully presented her research titled &ldquo;The Impact of Syrian Refugees on German Immigration Policy&rdquo; to the same forum. She initially developed her paper in Singh&rsquo;s Spring 2020 &ldquo;Politics of the Middle East and North Africa&rdquo; course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Ranjit Singh of the Political Science and International Affairs department presented his paper &ldquo;Arguing BDS: Reflections of Teaching Undergraduates about Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions&rdquo; to the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on October 15, 2020. Singh&rsquo;s paper reflects on his experiences teaching a 2019 seminar titled &ldquo;Political Dissent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":145380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9040,793],"class_list":["post-155434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-department-of-political-science-and-international-affairs","tag-rsingh","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}