Apr 21, 2021
Alex Winder – Investigating Indigeneity: Custom, Colonialism, and Crime in Mandate Palestine
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Virtual event | Registration is required
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Middle East Colloquium
Nov 12, 2020
Sep 22, 2020
Emily Drumsta – Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Virtual event
Apr 23, 2020
CANCELLED: Sreemati Mitter – Missing Checks, Purloined Bonds, Frozen Assets, Vanished Funds: a Financial Accounting of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 2, 2020
CANCELLED: Qussay Al-Attabi – Vernacular Modernism: A Poetic Chronicle of the 1968 Marshes Revolt in Iraq
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Birkelund Boardroom, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 12, 2020
CANCELLED: Emily Drumsta – Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 17, 2019
Paul Kohlbry – Property, Capital, and Palestinian Land Defense
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Sep 26, 2019
Samine Tabatabaei – A Graft to Remember, an Archive to Survey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 24, 2019
Rawan Arar – Leveraging Sovereignty: Syrian Refugees and the Jordanian State
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 13, 2019
Asli Zengin – Caring for the Dead: Intimacy, Abandonment and Transgender Funerals in Turkey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 27, 2019
CANCELLED: Lidia Gocheva – Three Refutations of the Philosophers’ View on Divine Knowledge
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Jan 30, 2019
Nadje Al-Ali – Feminist Dilemmas: How to Talk about Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East?
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 11, 2018
Alex Winder – Race, Religion, Empire, and the Palestine Police: In Pursuit of "A Suitable Proportion of 'Neutrals'"
Rescheduled from March 21st.
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 21, 2018
CANCELED: Alex Winder – Race, Religion, Empire, and the Palestine Police: In Pursuit of "A Suitable Proportion of 'Neutrals'"
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 28, 2018
Guy Ben-Porat – Police, Violence and Legitimacy: From Baltimore to Tel-Aviv
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Jan 31, 2018
Shamiran Mako – Institutions, Exclusion, and Communal Conflict in Iraq
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 8, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Time Interrupted: Islamic Lives of a Historiographical Seduction
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Oct 11, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Writing after the Middle East’s ‘1979 Moment’: The Grounds for Comparison?
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Sep 13, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Israel/Palestine - the Exception, the Example, and the Rule
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
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
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 8, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Remaining Undone: Heroin in the Time of Serial War
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Feb 2, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Captives, Slaves, and Refugees: Ransom and Resettlement of Jews in the Mediterranean World after 1648
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Dec 12, 2016
CANCELLED: Luncheon Seminar | After Displacement: Vernacular Modernity in the Quest for a Viable Resettlement
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI United States
Oct 26, 2016
Luncheon Seminar | The Zionist left: Settler colonial practices and the representation of the Palestinian Nakba in Northern Palestine
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate, Middle East Studies, Brown University, “The Zionist left: Settler colonial practices and the representation of the Palestinian Nakba in Northern Palestine.” This event is at capacity.
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI United States