Let’s take a critical look at the dishonesty in our engagement with our own history. Instead of a serious reckoning, we prefer to engage in what the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer referred to as “cheap grace.” It is only through moral clarity and courage that we can hope to move towards what is good, just, and beautiful. 

About the speaker: From a Turkish and Albanian family, Akan Malici grew up in Germany and completed his doctoral work in the U.S. in 2004. He has been a professor at Furman University since 2005. Having written many books and articles on international relations and foreign policy, his latest book is An Introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2025). Professor Malici is donating all his royalties from this book to humanitarian relief work.