May 6, 2020
MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2020
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
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.
Apr 23, 2020
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
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
Apr 2, 2020
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
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
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
MES DUG Undergraduate Paper Series Spring 2020
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer 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 19, 2020
Dilan Okcuoglu — Contested Borders and Sovereignty at the Margins of Turkey
5:30 p.m. – 7 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
Jan 28, 2020
Coup 53 Screening and Panel Discussion
6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Martinos Auditorium, Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street
Arts and Culture
Center for Middle East Studies
The John F. Kennedy Jr. Initiative for Documentary Film and Social Progress
Jan 27, 2020
Narges Bajoghli — Understanding Iran and the IRGC: Beyond the Headlines
5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. True North Classroom, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Dec 3, 2019
MES DUG Undergraduate Paper Series Fall 2019
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 22–23, 2019
Conference ─ Partitions: A Global Perspective
McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Center for Middle East Studies
Israel-Palestine Lecture Series
Nov 21, 2019
Eric Weitz ─ A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Center for Middle East Studies
Israel-Palestine Lecture Series
Meet the Author
Nov 13, 2019
Greg Burris – Palestine in Black and White: Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity
12 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 11, 2019
Marie Grace Brown — Setting up House: Bachelors, Domesticity, and Mobility in Imperial Sudan
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 7, 2019
Gender, Governance and Islam
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 1, 2019
Alia Al-Senussi ─ The Art World Ecosystem: Politics, Morality and Controversies
2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Leung Conference Room (110), Watson Institute Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook Street
Oct 31, 2019
Alia Al-Senussi ─ ‘How the Art World Works - Cultural Strategies’ Middle East and Beyond
4 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 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
Oct 22, 2019
Adeeb Khalid – The Uyghurs’ China Problem, or How We Got to the Political Re-Education Camps of Xinjiang
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. True North Classroom, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Oct 17, 2019
Paul Kohlbry – Property, Capital, and Palestinian Land Defense
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street