The 2017 Constitution Day Lecture will be offered by Dr. Yasmeen Daifallah. Dr. Daifallah completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Her broad area of specialization includes Islamic political thought, ancient and modern Western political thought, comparative political theory, postcolonial theory, and Middle East politics. In particular, she studies how cultural traditions orient their subjects towards politics. She attempts to answer the following questions: how does the religious-cultural constitution of a subject affect its disposition towards politics? Can this constitution be vested with new meanings to enable the transformation of this disposition? She seeks responses to these queries in the modern Arab and Islamic traditions of political and social thought. Future projects include a search for answers offered by medieval Islamic philosophers and theologians, as well as by modern-day social and political movements in the Arab world.

The event is free and open to the public.