May 6, 2020
MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2020
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Middle East Studies
Apr 15, 2020
Zahra Ali – Women and Gender in Iraq
5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 9, 2020
Salih Can Aciksoz – Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. True North Classroom, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Mar 12, 2020
Emily Drumsta – Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 9, 2020
MES DUG Undergraduate Paper Series Spring 2020
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 5, 2020
Rashid Khalidi — The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. True North Classroom, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Feb 26, 2020
Tarek El-Ariss – Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 21, 2020
MES DUG Panel on Activism in the Middle East
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Feb 7, 2020
Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma
2 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 6, 2020
Tony Stewart – Parody and Persuasion: Narrative Strategies of Bengali Sufi Fictions
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Dec 3, 2019
MES DUG Undergraduate Paper Series Fall 2019
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 30, 2019
Teach-In on Northern Syria — Understanding the Kurdish Struggle and Turkey’s Invasion
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. True North Classroom (101), Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Mar 11, 2019
Chas Freeman ─ Order in Turmoil: Making Sense of Kaleidoscopic Change in the Middle East
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 15, 2018
Apr 25, 2018
Screening of 3000 Nights+ Q&A with Mai Masri
5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
Apr 24, 2018
Faiz Ahmed – Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 20–21, 2018
Apr 17, 2018
Khaled Fahmy – Open Up a Few Corpses: Dissection, Shari'a and Justice in Modern Egypt
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. The Brown Faculty Club
Apr 13, 2018
E. Natalie Rothman – Trans-Imperial Archives: Rethinking Spatial Knowledge Production in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Italian Studies, Room 102, 190 Hope Street, Providence
Apr 12, 2018
Tony Stewart – Mapping the Bengali Imaginaire: Fictional Encounters of Hindu & Muslim Worlds
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Center for Contemporary South Asia
Center for Middle East Studies
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
Apr 10, 2018
Apr 3, 2018
Fatma Müge Göçek – Gender and Nationalism in Turkey and Kurdistan
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
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
Mar 12, 2018
Rana Dajani – Five Scarves: Doing the Impossible—If We Can Reverse Cell Fate, Why Can’t We Redefine Success for Women?
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Hall