Events Archive
Saudi Arabia’s Economic Diversification away from Oil: Why Is It so Difficult?
Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (102)
Speaker(s):
Makio Yamada, Princeton University
Reimagining the Reconquista: Problems in the Arabic Historiography of al-Andalus
Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Abigail Krasner Balbale, New York University
Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium: A Book Talk and Conversation
Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location:
McCormick Hall (106)
Speaker(s):
Joel Belcher, George Washington University
Prayer, Passports, and the Politics of Indian Ocean Travel
Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (102)
Speaker(s):
Mandana Limbert, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Girlhood translated? Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687) as a Text of Egyptian Modernity (1901, 1909)
Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Marilyn Booth, University of Oxford & Institute for Advanced Study
The 2018 Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series
Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 4:30 pm to Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library (120)
Speaker(s):
Gülru Necipoğlu, Harvard University
“Courtly Identities in Mamluk Egypt: Law, Gender, and Theology in the majālis of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516)”
Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Christian Mauder, University of Leipzig & Institute for Advanced Study
Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture: “On State and Stateless Imaginations”
Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
McCosh Hall (10)
Speaker(s):
Moustafa Bayoumi, Professor of English, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Thoughts about the Israeli Mind
Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Scheide Caldwell House (203)
Speaker(s):
Yair Assulin, Author, Poet, and Editor
Shaping the Post-Petroleum Society: Nationalism and Social Engineering in the Gulf
Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (102)
Speaker(s):
Calvert W. Jones, University of Maryland, College Park
The Arabic Plato: Problems and Prospects
Mon, Nov 12, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Geoffrey Moseley, Sewanee University of the South
Of Roads and Homes
Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Alexander Hall (Richardson Auditorium)
Speaker(s):
Al-Bustan Ensemble
Classical Music of the Middle East
Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Kinan Abou-Afach, Composer (Cello), Hafez Kotain (Percussion), and Issam Rafea (Oud)
Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World
Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (102)
Speaker(s):
Maha Nassar, University of Arizona & Institute for Advanced Studies
Bless the Hands of the Soldiers
Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Robertson Hall (016)
Speaker(s):
David Kirkpatrick, International Correspondent, The New York Times
The Veil Decoded
Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (102)
Speaker(s):
Isabella de la Houssaye
Francesco Pecorini’s Letter in Arabic to Francesco Redi (Florence, 1667) —
Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University & Institute for Advanced Studies
Conceptions of Law: Between "Theology" and Positive Law
Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 4:30 pm to Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 12:30 pm
Networks of Debt, Coalitions of Trust and Cycle of Crisis: The Ottoman Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (100)
Speaker(s):
Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford University
Ph.D. Final Public Oral Examination of Usaama A. al-Azami
Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (102)
Speaker(s):
Usaama A. al-Azami, Near Eastern Studies