May 6, 2020
Conference – Decolonization, Development and State Building in North Africa
Time TBD Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Major Events
Apr 3, 2020
Mar 6–7, 2020
New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2020 – Who Owns Palestine?
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 7, 2020
Workshop – Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma
1:00 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 31, 2019
Alia Al-Senussi – ‘How the Art World Works - Cultural Strategies’ Middle East and Beyond
4:00 – 5:45 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 25–26, 2019
Islam and the Humanities 2019 Conference – the Primacy of Form
Room 305, Pembroke Hall
172 Meeting St.
Sep 27, 2019
Death and Afterlives in the Middle East | Workshop
8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Sep 4, 2019
May 26, 2019
MES Commencement Diploma Ceremony 2019
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
May 7–14, 2019
May 2, 2019
Spring 2019 Year-End Reception
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown St.
Mar 15–16, 2019
New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2019 – Palestinian Homes and Houses: Subjectivities and Materialities
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m Pembroke Center, PH305
Jan 29, 2019
Critical Conversations: Experiences of Incarceration in the United States and Syria
5:00 – 6:45 p.m. Room 101
Stephen Robert '62 Hall, Watson Institute
280 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912
Dec 10, 2018
MES Student Open House Study Break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Room 306, Stephen Robert '62 P'91 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Nov 9, 2018
Workshop | Warzones as Displacement in the Middle East: the Kurdish Case
9:15 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 18, 2018
The Music of Syria: A Concert by Contemporary Syrian Composers with Ashraf Kateb & Hamsa Al-Wadi Juris
5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown St. Providence, RI 02912
Sep 5, 2018
Fall 2018 Welcome Reception
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown St. Providence, RI 02912
Jun 1–8, 2018
May 2, 2018
Apr 20–21, 2018
Islam and the Humanities 2018 – Assessing the Islamic Past: Historical and Philosophical Intervention
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Mar 9–10, 2018
New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2018 – The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life
New Directions in Palestinian Studies Workshop 2018 – The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life
8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Mar 8, 2018
9th Critical Conversations Panel – Permission to Speak: Boycott and the Politics of Solidarity
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Building, 190 Thayer Street
Nov 10, 2017
Conference | Middle East Toxic Wars
9am – 5pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Nov 4, 2017
Symposium | "Afterlives of Witnessing: Moving Images from the Levant and the Political Imagination"
9:15am – 4:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Sep 12, 2017
Fall 2017 Welcome Reception
6pm – 8pm Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown St. Providence, RI 02912 United States