Sep 26, 2014
India Initiative Student Fellow Presentations
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Event Archive 2014
Sep 24, 2014
João Reis ─ Slaves Who Owned Slaves in 19th Century Brazil
6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 24, 2014
Dwight Reynolds ─ The Qiyān (Singing Slave Girls) of Medieval Muslim Spain
5:30 p.m. Smith-Buonanno 106
Sep 24, 2014
Rohini Pande ─ Why are Indian Children Shorter than African Children?
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 24, 2014
The Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration in the United States
4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 23, 2014
Politics of Presentation: The Development of Modern Arab Poetry and the Kabul Museum
Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series
6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 23, 2014
Sep 22, 2014
Sep 19, 2014
Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014
Jenny White ─ Turkey at the Tipping Point
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 17, 2014
Suresh Naidu - The Law and Economics of Unfree Labor in the 19th Century
12 p.m. Birkelund Board Room
Sep 17, 2014
Faisal Devji ─ Muslim Zion: Mohammad Iqbal and the Jewish Question
South Asian Studies Workshop
12 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 12, 2014
Shivaji Mukherjee ─ Colonial Origins of Maoist Insurgency in India: Historical Legacies of British Indirect Rule
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics @ MIT
2 p.m. MIT Center for International Studies, Lucian Pye Conference Room, E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
Sep 12, 2014
Sep 11, 2014
Dara Kay Cohen ─ Explaining Rape During Civil War
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 11, 2014
Mine Eder ─ Understanding AKP's Political Success: Turkey's New Political Economy and Beyond
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014
Teach In ─ Why Gaza Matters: The War and its Consequences
5 p.m. MacMillan Hall 117, 167 Thayer Street
Sep 10, 2014
Alexei Abrahams ─ Mobility & Inequality: Evidence from the Second Intifada
Middle East Studies Luncheon Seminar Series
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014
Screening of Khirbat’ Khize and al-Midya
Middle East Studies "1948 – Once Upon a Palestine” Film Series
5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 8 – Oct 31, 2014
Art at Watson Presents Cesar Barreto: Rio Pictoresco
In this exhibit of 30 black-and-white photographs, Brazilian photographer Cesar Barreto reveals his passion and his reverence for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The works, which he printed himself, appear in his recently published book, Rio Pictoresco. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Watson Institute, 2nd floor
May 24, 2014
Commencement Forum ─ From Apple to Nike: Making Globalization Work for All
12:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
May 19 – Sep 2, 2014
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