Feb 20, 2020
Exhibition Opening – Transient Matter
5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Curator’s Talk, 5:00 p.m. | Friedman Hall
Reception, 6:00 p.m. | Haffenreffer Museum Gallery at Manning Hall.
Arts & Social Change
Feb 11, 2019
The Nuns, the Priests and the Bombs, film screening
5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Research Building
190 Thayer St.
Nov 28, 2018
Ahoo Najafian — Staging the Aborted Past: Scenes from Alternative Theater in Iran
5:45 – 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 23, 2018
Alia Al-Senussi (’03 A.M. ’04) — The New Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom Embraces Soft Power
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Nov 13, 2017
Lecture | New Models of Patronage within Arts and Culture: Focus on the Gulf Cooperation Council
4:30pm – 6pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Nov 8, 2017
Lecture | Desert Melody: Female Love Songs of the Bedouin Desert
5:30pm – 7pm Maddock Alumni Center, Brian Room, 38 Brown Street
Arabic
Arts
Arts & Social Change
Lectures
Partner Events
Women and Gender
Nov 4, 2017
Symposium | "Afterlives of Witnessing: Moving Images from the Levant and the Political Imagination"
9:15am – 4:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Nov 3, 2017
Magic Lantern Cinema | A Pre-Symposium Screening for "Afterlives of Witnessing: Moving Images from the Levant and the Political Imagination"
5pm – 8pm ListArt120, 64 College Street, Providence, RI
May 11, 2017
Apr 19, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Between the Archive and the People: The Arabic Novel in the Age of Disillusionment
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Apr 5, 2017
Apr 4, 2017
Apr 3, 2017
Mar 8, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Starting the Revolution from a Different Place: Art, Dissent and Diplomacy in the Arab World
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Feb 16, 2017
Lecture + Book Talk | The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
12pm – 2pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Feb 7, 2017
Jan 31, 2017
Turkish Film Series | Hacivat Karagoz Neden Olduruldu? (Killing the Shadows)
7pm – 9pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Nov 28, 2016
Film Screening | The Destruction of Memory
6pm – 8pm List 120
Nov 10, 2016
Film Screening | Ma’a al-Fidda (Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait)
6:30pm – 8:30pm Cable Car Cinema
Nov 9, 2016
Political Art & Satiric Expression: The Khartoon! Movement in Middle East Today
6pm – 7:30pm Wilson Hall, Room 302
75-91 Waterman Street
Oct 14, 2016
Arabic Calligraphy Workshop
12pm – 2pm MacMillan 115
Arabic
Arts
Arts & Social Change
Workshops, Conferences, Seminars
May 3, 2016
Apr 21, 2016
Film Screening: GRAMSCI44
Between 1926 and 1927, the Italian intellectual and Communist political figure Antonio Gramsci spent 44 days imprisoned on the island of Ustica, off the northern coast of Sicily.
6:30pm – 8:30pm Macmillan 117, 167 thayer street providence, RI 02912 United States
Apr 19, 2016
Film Screening and Talk “A Touch of Spice”
6:30pm – 8pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Apr 14, 2016
International Poetry Night
6pm – 8pm Smith-Buonanno Hall 106, 95 Cushing Street Providence, RI 02912 United States