Jun 10, 2021
Troubles between the Jordan and the Sea: Israel/Palestine in Light of the Recent Violence
12:00 - 1:30 ET, 7:00 - 8:30 Jerusalem time Watch on Watson's YouTube Channel.
Partner Events
Apr 2, 2021
Mar 23, 2021
Ece Temelkuran - How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual Event, Register Here
Feb 5, 2021
Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930: A Conversation with Judith Surkis '92
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Register here for this virtual event
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.
May 19–26, 2020
Mar 13–14, 2020
POSTPONED: State of the Field 2020 – Archaeology of the Levant
Friday, March 13th – Saturday, March 14th, 2020 Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Rhode Island Hall, Brown University
60 George Street, Providence, RI
Feb 29 – Mar 1, 2020
Hack for Humanity 2020: Refugee and Migrant Health
This is a weekend event beginning at 9:00am on Saturday and ending at 3:30pm on Sunday
Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Feb 27–28, 2020
Conference – Translation Across Disciplines
Thursday, February 27, 2:30 – 6:00 p.m. | Friday, February 28, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
75 Waterman St., Room 201
Nov 21, 2019
Jennifer Derr – The Lived Nile
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Room 015, 85 Waterman St. (Hunter Psychology Lab)
Nov 12, 2019
Nov 11, 2019
Marie Grace Brown — Setting up House: Bachelors, Domesticity, and Mobility in Imperial Sudan
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 7, 2019
In Between with Ibrahim Miari
8:00 – 10:00 p.m. Room 001, Salomon Center for Teaching
Nov 2, 2019
Rethinking the Body: Humanity and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 85 Waterman St. (Room 130)
Providence, RI 02912
Oct 29, 2019
Vivien Sansour – The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library | A Journey of Reclaiming Life in One of the World’s Centers of Diversity: Palestine
4:00 – 6:00 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. 112, Giddings House
128 Hope St.
Oct 3–4, 2019
At the Margins: Interconnections of Power and Identity in the Ancient Near East
Friday, October 3, 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, October 4, 9:30 a.m. – 3:50 p.m. TBD
Sep 20, 2019
Jun 16–19, 2019
The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium – Syriac Worlds: Interactions, Exchanges, Contributions
4-day conference Smith-Buonanno Hall
May 4, 2019
Teach-In – Working Across Boundaries: Approaches to Studying the Indian Ocean World through Space and Time
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Room 110, List Art Building
64 College St.
May 1, 2019
Alexis Tadié – Silent Ruins: Syria in the Eighteenth-Century
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. The Brown Faculty Club, 1 Bannister St.
Apr 30, 2019
Syrian Eyes of the World
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. The Agora (1st floor)
Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook St.
Apr 24, 2019
Whistleblowers and American Empire: A Discussion in Solidarity with Chelsea Manning
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Room 106, Smith-Buonanno Hall
Apr 18, 2019
Wine and Prayer – an Evening with Hafez of Shiraz
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Room 305, Pembroke Hall (172 Meeting St.)
Apr 17, 2019
A Boat to Lesbos – a Poetry Reading by the Syrian Poet Nouri al-Jarrah
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106