Jan 21, 2020
Narges Bajoghli – Understanding Iran and the IRGC: Beyond the Headlines
5:45 – 7:15 p.m. True North (101), 280 Brook St.
Upcoming Events
Jan 27, 2020
Jan 28, 2020
Coup 53 Screening and Panel Discussion
6pm – 9pm Martinos Auditorium, Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street
Feb 6, 2020
Tony Stewart – Parody and Persuasion: Narrative Strategies of Bengali Sufi Fictions
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 7, 2020
Workshop – Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma
2:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 9–10, 2020
Feb 19, 2020
Dilan Okcuoglu – Contested Borders and Sovereignty at the Margins of Turkey
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 21, 2020
MES DUG Panel on Activism in the Middle East
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Leung Conference Room (110), 280 Brook St.
Feb 21, 2020
MESGSA Workshop
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 26, 2020
Tarek El-Ariss – Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 27–28, 2020
Conference – Translation Across Disciplines
Thursday, February 27, 2:30 – 6:00 p.m. | Friday, February 28, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
75 Waterman St., Room 201
Mar 5, 2020
Rashid Khalidi – The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. True North (101), 280 Broook St.
Mar 6–7, 2020
New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2020 – Who Owns Palestine?
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Mar 11, 2020
Undergraduate Paper Series Spring 2020
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 12, 2020
Emily Drumsta – Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 18, 2020
James Crossley – Religion and the Middle East in Contemporary English Political Discourse
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 1, 2020
Concentration Declaration Celebration 2020
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. South Common Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 2, 2020
Qussay Al-Attabi – Vernacular Modernism: A Poetic Chronicle of the 1968 Marshes Revolt in Iraq
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Birkelund Boardroom, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 3, 2020
Conference – Decolonization, Development and State Building in North Africa
Time: All Day Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 9, 2020
Salih Can Aciksoz – Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. True North (101), 280 Brook St.
Apr 15, 2020
Zahra Ali – Women and Gender in Iraq
5:45 – 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 23, 2020
Sreemati Mitter – Missing Checks, Purloined Bonds, Frozen Assets, Vanished Funds: a Financial Accounting of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
May 1, 2020
MES Send Off + Ice Cream
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. South Common Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
May 1, 2020
May 6, 2020
MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2020
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
May 6, 2020