Events Archive
"The U.S. and the Middle East: Where to Now?"
Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Louis A. Simpson International Building (A71)
Speaker(s):
Steven Simon 83*, John J. McCloy ’16 Professor, Amherst College
"Reading Palestinian Agency in Mandate History: the Buraq Revolt as Indigenous Resistance"
Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Rana Barakat, Bir Zeit University and Columbia University
"Blemishes and Burdens: Jewish Daughters of Iraq"
Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Nancy Berg, Washington University in St. Louis
Saudi Arabia’s Economic Diversification away from Oil: Why Is It So Difficult?
Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (102)
Speaker(s):
Makio Yamada, Princeton University
Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi
Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Bernard Haykel, Near Eastern Studies
"Sharia Ethnography”
Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Jones Hall (202)
Speaker(s):
Brinkley Messick, Columbia University
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