Nov 2, 2022
Maya Mikdashi - Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Center for Middle East Studies
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Oct 31, 2022
Matthew Teller - Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
12 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 21, 2022
Maghrebi Micro-Festival of Moroccan Gnawa Music, Culture, and History
4 p.m. – 10 p.m. Panel: Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Concert: The Repair Atelier, 271 N. Main Street, Providence, RI, 02903
Oct 6, 2022
Sep 30, 2022
Sep 20, 2022
Marie Ostby - The Global Genres of Modern Iran: Flexible Forms and Cross-Cultural Exchange from Travelogues to Twitter
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 15, 2022
Alan Mikhail - Boom Cairo
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 9, 2022
Apr 26, 2022
Apr 21, 2022
Noura Erakat ─ Race, Apartheid, and Settler Colonialism
4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. True North Classroom, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street, or watch live on Watson's You Tube channel.
Apr 19, 2022
Race, Racism, and Palestine
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street.
Apr 13, 2022
Tala Hadid '95 — Conversation and Film Screening: House in the Fields
5:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 7, 2022
Aslı Zengin ─ Violent Intimacies: Transgender Lives, Family and the State in Contemporary Turkey
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 21, 2022
Ruba Salih ─ Nature, Displacement and the Anthropocene in Palestine: A View From the Already Extinct
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 3, 2022
Khalid Abdel-Hadi ─ Establishing Jordan’s First Online LGBTQ magazine
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 25, 2022
Feb 15, 2022
Rema Hammami ─ GBV Humanitarianism in Gaza: Gender Violence and the Geopolitics of Humanitarian Care and Immiseration
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Feb 10, 2022
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Nov 29, 2021
Ümit Kurt ─ The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
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