Event Programs

New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2023 – the Palestinian Revolutionary Tradition and Global Anti-Colonialism
March 10-11, 2023

What Does Decolonizing Kurdish Studies Mean?
May 21, 2021

MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2021
April 14, 2021

MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2020
May 6, 2020

New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2020 – Who Owns Palestine?
March 6-7, 2020

Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma
February 7, 2020

Islam and the Humanities 2019 – the Primacy of Form
October 25-26, 2019

Death and Afterlives in the Middle East
September 27, 2019

Middle East Studies Diploma Ceremony 2019
May 26, 2019

MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2019
May 6, 2019

New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2019 – Palestinian Homes and Houses: Subjectivities and Materialities
March 15-16, 2018

Warzones as Displacement in the Middle East: the Kurdish Case
November 9, 2018

The Music of Syria: A Concert by Contemporary Syrian Composers with Ashraf Kateb & Hamsa Al-Wadi Juris
October 18, 2018

Middle East Studies Diploma Ceremony 2018
May 27, 2018

MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2018
May 2, 2017

Islam and the Humanities 2019 – Assessing the Islamic Past: Historical and Philosophical Interventions
April 20-21, 2018

New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2018 – The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life
March 9-10, 2018

Middle East Toxic Wars
November 10, 2017

Afterlives of Witnessing: Moving Images from the Levant and the Political Imagination
November 4, 2017

Middle East Studies Diploma Ceremony 2017
May 28, 2017

MES Senior Paper Presentation Day
May 3, 2017

Workshop on Displacement and the Making of the Modern World
April 21-22, 2017

New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2017 – The Politics of Archives and the Practices of Memory
March 3-4, 2017

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Dams and Displacement
October 18, 2016

New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2016 – Approaches to Research on Palestine and the Palestinians
March 4-5, 2016

The Politics of Human Shielding
November 17, 2015

Politics of Time, Material Culture and Islamic Religiosity
April 24-25, 2015

New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2015 – Palestine: Political Cultures and the Cultures of Politics
March 6, 2015

Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture
February 2015

Underground Iran
November 15, 2014

Capstone & Thesis Presentations
May 7, 2014

Embedded! Archaeologists & Anthropologists in Modern Landscapes of Conflict
May 1, 2014

Third Annual Aga Khan Conference/Workshop
April 2014

New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2014 – Political Economy and the Economy of Politics
February 28, 2014

The U.S., Iran, and the Cold War: Global Perspectives of the 1953 Coup
December 6, 2013