Sep 4, 2019
MES Undergrad Welcome Back Lunch
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Leung Conference Room (110), Watson Institute
Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook St.
Upcoming Events
Sep 20, 2019
Sep 20, 2019
Sep 25, 2019
Capernaum (2018)
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Research Building
Sep 26, 2019
Samine Tabatabaei – A Graft to Remember, an Archive to Survey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Sep 27, 2019
Death and Afterlives in the Middle East
8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 3–4, 2019
At the Margins: Interconnections of Power and Identity in the Ancient Near East
Friday, October 3, 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, October 4, 9:30 a.m. – 3:50 p.m. TBD
Oct 8, 2019
Nada Mustafa Ali & Khalid Medani – New Voices from Sudan
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 9, 2019
Clare Davies – The Artist’s Map of Tehran, 1956-1966
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 11, 2019
Ayşe Parla – Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Room 102, Giddings House
128 Hope St.
Oct 11, 2019
Studying Abroad in the Middle East: What to Expect?
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Leung Conference Room (110), Watson Institute
Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook St.
Oct 17, 2019
Paul Kohlbry – Property, Capital, and Palestinian Land Defense
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 22, 2019
Adeeb Khalid – The Uyghurs’ China Problem, or How We Got to the Political Re-Education Camps of Xinjiang
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 25–26, 2019
Islam and the Humanities 2019 Conference – the Primacy of Form
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Room 305, Pembroke Hall
172 Meeting St.
Oct 30, 2019
Oct 31, 2019
Alia Al-Senussi – How Does the Art World Work (in the Middle East and Beyond?
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 1, 2019
In Conversation with Alia Al-Senussi
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Leung Conference Room (110), Watson Institute
Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook St.
Nov 7, 2019
Gender, Governance and Islam
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 11, 2019
Marie Grace Brown – Setting up House: Bachelors, Domesticity, and Mobility in Imperial Sudan
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 11, 2019
For Sama (2019) film screening and discussion with director Waad al-Kateab
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 12, 2019
Nov 13, 2019
Greg Burris – Palestine in Black and White: Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity
12:00 – 1:45 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 16, 2019
Rethinking the Body: Humanity and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. TBD
Nov 21, 2019
Dec 3, 2019
Undergraduate Paper Series Fall 2019
6:30 – 8:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Dec 5, 2019
Vazira Zamindar – ‘Love, War and Other Longings’: on Cinema from Pakistan
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Dec 6, 2019
Middle East Studies Concert at the Agora
5:30 – 7:30 p.m. The Agora, Watson Institute
Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook St.
Feb 7, 2020
Mar 11, 2020
Undergraduate Paper Series Spring 2020
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 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.
May 1, 2020
MES Send Off + Ice Cream
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. South Common Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.