May 28, 2023
MES Commencement Diploma Ceremony 2023
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. EST Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
View the Commencement program here.
Event Archive 2023
May 8, 2023
Spring 2023 Year-End Reception
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. The Agora, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
May 8, 2023
MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2023
9:45 - 11:15 a.m. Jouwkosky Forum, 111 Thayer
May 4, 2023
Discussions in Arabic | Arabic Nadwa
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sciences Library 618
May 1, 2023
Apr 28, 2023
Apr 26, 2023
Film Discussion | Race, Language & Identity in Iran with Shahzad Bashir & Mehrdad Babadi
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Salomon Center 003
Apr 21, 2023
MES Undergraduate Paper Series
12:00 - 1:45 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Apr 20, 2023
Watson Concentration Declaration Day
2pm – 4pm Starr Plaza, 111 Thayer Street (in case of rain: The Agora, Stephen Robert ’62 Hall, 280 Brook Street)
Apr 20, 2023
Round Table | Emerging Practices in Middle East Studies
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room 353, 111 Thayer
Apr 19, 2023
Film Screening | Night Bus (2007)
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. 195 Angell Street, Room 202
Apr 19, 2023
Book Talk | Dicle Akar | "Survivors of a Genocide"
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Hybrid event: Join in person at SciLi 604 (201 Thayer St. 6th floor) or via zoom via Registration
Apr 17, 2023
Book Talk | Joumana Haddad | The Book of Queens
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. 85 Waterman Street, Room 130
Apr 13, 2023
Discussions in Arabic | Arabic Nadwa
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sciences Library 618
Apr 13, 2023
Discussion with Amitis Motevalli | Borrowing Authority from Dead
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Webinar - Registration Required
Apr 12, 2023
Lecture | Elad Lapidot | Jews Out of the Question: How Critical Theory Fights Anti-Semitism by Denying Judaism
12:00 - 1:20 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer
Apr 11, 2023
Performance & Workshop | Turkish Dance
4:15 - 5:15 p.m. Alumnae Hall Auditorium
Apr 7, 2023
Kareem James Abu-Zeid | Intangibles: Toward a Holistic Approach to Literary Translation
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Faculty Club, Landscape room
Apr 7, 2023
Kareem James Abu-Zeid | Context and Cohesion: A Workshop on Translating Modern Literary Texts
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Faculty Club, Landscape Room
Apr 6, 2023
Kareem James Abu-Zeid | A Reading of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Brown Bookstore
Apr 6, 2023
Webinar | Panel | Access to Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. EST Webinar
Apr 4, 2023
Lecture | Wadie Said | Palestine and American Law
5:30 - 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer
Apr 3, 2023
Lecture | Christine Philliou | Invisible Cities: Greek Istanbul of the 19th century through the Lens of Ottoman Census Registers
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Rhode Island Hall 108
Mar 29–31, 2023
Conference | Iraq Twenty Years After the US Invasion
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Conveners:
Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University, USA)
Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France)
Dina Khoury (George Washington University, USA)
Achim Rohde (Academy in Exile, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Eckart Woertz (German Institute for Global and Area Studies and University of Hamburg, Germany)
Venue: GIGA (German Institute for Global and Area Studies), Hamburg
Mar 21, 2023
Webinar | Twenty Years of War in Iraq: The Costs and Consequences
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Webinar - Registration Required