Nov 8, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Time Interrupted: Islamic Lives of a Historiographical Seduction
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Webcasts
Nov 4, 2017
Symposium | "Afterlives of Witnessing: Moving Images from the Levant and the Political Imagination"
9:15am – 4:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 16, 2017
Lecture | Digital Approaches to Ancient Literacy: The Case of Safaitic
12pm – 1:30pm Joukowsky Forum
Sep 26, 2017
Lecture + Book Talk | Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History
5:15pm – 7pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Watch on Youtube
Podcast: Family, Sharia Law, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
May 28, 2017
MES Commencement Diploma Ceremony 2017
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum
May 5, 2017
May 3, 2017
MES Senior Capstone/Thesis Presentations
9am – 3pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Apr 21–22, 2017
Workshop on Displacement and the Making of the Modern World
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Apr 7, 2017
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Displacement | Imperial Origins of Racialized Lives: From Enslavement to Black Lives Matter
11:30am – 5:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Mar 21, 2017
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Displacement | The Displaced Living and the Displaced Dead
4pm – 6pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Mar 2, 2017
8th Critical Conversations Panel | Palestine-Israel in the Trump Era
5:30pm – 7:30pm Joukowsky Forum
Feb 28, 2017
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Displacement | Displacement and Creative Activism
4pm – 6:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Feb 16, 2017
Feb 8, 2017
Trump's Ban: A Teach-In
5:30pm – 7:45pm 85 Waterman Street, Room 130
Feb 1, 2017
Dec 6, 2016
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Displacement | Development-Induced Displacement
4pm – 7pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Dec 5, 2016
Seyed Hossein Mousavian ─ Iran and the United States: What Lies Ahead in the Trump Era
12pm – 1:30pm Joukowsky Forum
Dec 5, 2016
Seyed Hossein Mousavian ─ Iran and the United States: What Lies Ahead in the Trump Era
12pm – 1:30pm Joukowsky Forum
Nov 29, 2016
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Displacement | Migration and Displacement: A World on the Move
4pm – 6:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 21, 2016
Oct 19, 2016
Lecture + Book Signing | "The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism”
12pm – 1:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Oct 18, 2016
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Displacement | Dams and Displacement
3pm – 7pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 6, 2016
Critical Conversations Panel Fall 2016 | "Clinton, Trump, and the Middle East”
Critical Conversations Panel Fall 2016. The seventh in the series.
5:30pm – 7:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Oct 5, 2016
Book Reading & Lecture | Elias Muhanna, “Translating a Classical Arabic Encyclopedia”
Elias Muhanna, Manning assistant professor of comparative literature, “Translating a Classical Arabic Encyclopedia” talk and book launch.
12pm – 1pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Oct 4, 2016
Turkish Film Series | Ruzgarin Hatiralari, 2015 (Memories of the Wind)
“Us and Them: Across the Borders” MES Turkish film series on Displacement, presented by Prof. Pelin Kadercan and Kutay Onayli ’17 in partnership with BUFF (Brown Film Forum)
7pm – 9:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906