Nov 20, 2020
Undergraduate Paper Series Fall 2020
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Center for Middle East Studies
The Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University promotes knowledge, understanding, and informed discussion about the Middle East, Islam, and Muslim societies through research, teaching, and public engagement.
Nov 19, 2020
Nazanin Shahrokni ─ Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Virtual Event. Register here to join the webinar.
Nov 13, 2020
Writing Queer / Queer Writing: Diasporic Dialogues between the Middle East and Brazil
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or tune in to the talk live on YouTube.
Nov 12, 2020
Alex Winder – Investigating Indigeneity: Custom, Colonialism, and Crime in Mandate Palestine
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Watch the event on YouTube.
Oct 30, 2020
Racialization & Racism in the Middle East: Historical Perspectives
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Watch the event on YouTube.
Oct 28, 2020
Salih Can Aciksoz – Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Register here to join the webinar or tune in to the talk live at watson.brown.edu/live.
Oct 20, 2020
Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa ─ Virtual Book Talk
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or tune in to the talk live on Watson's youtube channel
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Development and Governance Seminar
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Sep 29, 2020
Shahzad Bashir – Globalizing the Middle Ages: The Market in Poetry in the Persian World
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Click here to join the webinar.
Sep 29, 2020
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor – The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians
Register here to join the webinar or tune in to the talk live at watson.brown.edu/live.
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar or tune in to the talk live at watson.brown.edu/live.
Sep 25, 2020
Conference – Decolonization, Development and State Building in North Africa
9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar. For security purposes, the link to attend the event will be sent to you 2 hours in advance of the conference.
Sep 22, 2020
Emily Drumsta – Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Sep 15, 2020
Zahra Ali – Women and Gender in Iraq
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar or tune in to the talk live on YouTube.
May 6, 2020
CANCELED: MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2020
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 23, 2020
CANCELED: Sreemati Mitter — Missing Checks, Purloined Bonds, Frozen Assets, Vanished Funds: a Financial Accounting of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 15, 2020
CANCELED: Zahra Ali – Women and Gender in Iraq
5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 9, 2020
CANCELED: 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
Apr 2, 2020
CANCELED: Qussay Al-Attabi — Vernacular Modernism: A Poetic Chronicle of the 1968 Marshes Revolt in Iraq
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Boardroom, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 18, 2020
CANCELED: James Crossley – Religion and the Middle East in Contemporary English Political Discourse
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 12, 2020
CANCELED: 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 11, 2020
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