Mar 21, 2022
Lecture | Ruba Salih | Nature, Displacement and the Anthropocene in Palestine: A View From the Already Extinct
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. This event has been rescheduled from Nov. 1, 2021
Virtual Event
Please register to attend.
Lectures
Mar 3, 2022
Lecture | Khalid Abdel-Hadi | Queering the Middle East | Establishing Jordan’s First Online LGBTQ magazine
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Virtual Event
Registration required.
Feb 15, 2022
Lecture | Rema Hammami | GBV Humanitarianism in Gaza
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Virtual Event
Registration required.
Feb 4, 2022
Lecture | Sa'ed Atshan | Queering the Middle East | Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries Across MENA
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
To attend the on-campus event, please register here >>>.
Please note that priority will be given to Brown faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students due to limited space. All registrations will be tentative pending receipt of an emailed confirmation from CMES. Alternatively, you can follow on YouTube (webcast link below).
Nov 12, 2021
Book Talk | Somdeep Sen | Decolonizing Palestine
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Virtual Event
Registration required
Sep 29, 2021
Book Talk | Evren Savcı | Queer in Translation
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Virtual Event
Registration required.
Sep 10, 2021
Book Talk | Hagar Kotef | The Colonizing Self
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Virtual Event
Registration required.
Mar 30, 2021
Jan 27, 2021
Feminist Mobilizations at the time of COVID-19: Experiences from the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event.
Register to join the webinar.
Nov 19, 2020
Nazanin Shahrokni - Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Virtual Event. Register to join the webinar. We will be providing interpretation into Arabic language for the audience.
Nov 13, 2020
Writing Queer / Queer Writing: Diasporic Dialogues between the Middle East and Brazil
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event. Registration required.
Oct 30, 2020
Racialization and Racism in the Middle East: Historical Perspectives
1:30pm – 3pm A Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East
Register here to attend the webinar
Lectures
Racialization and Racism in the Middle East and its Diasporas
Virtual Event
Oct 28, 2020
Salih Can Aciksoz – Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. Registration required for the webinar.
Please click on this link to buy the book from the Brown Bookstore. The Bookstore is offering a 10% discount on event books using the code EVENT10.
Sep 29, 2020
Shahzad Bashir – Globalizing the Middle Ages: The Market in Poetry in the Persian World
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Click here to join the webinar.
Sep 29, 2020
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor – The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Please click on this link to buy the book from the Brown Bookstore. The Bookstore is offering a 10% discount on event books using the code EVENT10.
Sep 15, 2020
Zahra Ali – Women and Gender in Iraq
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Virtual Book Event
Please click on this link to buy the book from the Brown Bookstore. The Bookstore is offering a 10% discount on event books using the code EVENT10.
Apr 15, 2020
CANCELLED: Zahra Ali – Women and Gender in Iraq
5:45 – 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 9, 2020
CANCELLED: Salih Can Aciksoz – Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. True North (101), 280 Brook St.
Mar 18, 2020
CANCELLED: 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.
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 Brook 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 24, 2020
Presidential Faculty Award Lecture with Shahzad Bashir
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. John Carter Brown Library (94 George St.), MacMillan Reading Room
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.
Jan 27, 2020
Narges Bajoghli – Understanding Iran and the IRGC: Beyond the Headlines
5:45 – 7:15 p.m. True North (101), 280 Brook St.
Nov 21, 2019
Jennifer Derr – The Lived Nile
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Room 015, 85 Waterman St. (Hunter Psychology Lab)