Apr 28, 2020
James Crossley – Jesus in an Age of Terror
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Form, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Lectures
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.
Nov 21, 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 12, 2019
Nov 7, 2019
Book Talk | Gender, Governance and Islam
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 1, 2019
Alia Al-Senussi – The Art World Ecosystem: Politics, Morality and Controversies
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Leung Conference Room (110), Watson Institute
Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook St.
Oct 29, 2019
Vivien Sansour – The Palestine Heirloom Seed
Time TBD Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
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 11, 2019
Ayşe Parla – Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Giddings House
128 Hope 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 8, 2019
Nada Mustafa Ali & Khalid Medani – New Voices from Sudan
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 29, 2019
Raef Zreik – Palestine as a Question
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 25, 2019
Sadia Abbas (’02 PhD) – Why Write (Fiction)?
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 17, 2019
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East with Niloofar Haeri – The Story of Moses and the Shepherd: Debating Non-Ritual Prayer in Iran
4:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 7, 2019
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East with Abbas Amanat – From the Safavid Revolution to the Islamic Republic of Iran: Shaping of a Longue Durée
4:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 26, 2019
Rosie Bsheer – Yemen’s Forgotten Wars
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Room 101, Stephen Robert '62 Hall
280 Brook St.
Feb 14, 2019
Maya Mikdashi – Afterlives of a Census: Inheritance, History, and Biopower in Contemporary Lebanon
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 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
Oct 15, 2018
Shenila Khoja-Moolji (’05 A.B.) — Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
12:00 – 1:45 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Sep 19, 2018
Alireza Doostdar — Signs of Satan in Iran: Hollywood, Cosmopolitanism, Paranoia
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Apr 17, 2018
Khaled Fahmy – Open Up a Few Corpses: Dissection, Shari'a and Justice in Modern Egypt
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. The Brown Faculty Club
Feb 21, 2018
Marwa M. Shalaby – Female Political Representation under Authoritarianism
Marwa M. Shalaby – Female Political Representation under Authoritarianism
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Feb 14, 2018
Rochelle Davis – Iraqis Displaced by ISIS: A Mixed Methods Study of Displacement and Durable Solutions
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum