Events: Middle East Studies at Brown University

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Upcoming Events

Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011: Prof. Michaelle Browers, Political Science, Wake Forest University - Title TBA, Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 4pm. Co-sponsored with the Political Philosophy Workshop.

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011: Dr. Les Roberts, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University - “Mortality after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq”. 68 Waterman St., 12pm. Sponsored by the Population Studies and Training Center.

Thursday, March 3, 2011: Prof. Cyrus Schayegh, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University: “Who is Knowledgeable is Strong”. location TBA, 5pm. Co-sponsored with the Population Studies and Training Center and the Science and Technology Studies Program.

March 11 - 13, 2011: Conference - Northeast Middle East Politics Working Group (NEMEPWG), McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program, the Office of the Dean of the College, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs at Brown University.

March 13-14, 2011: Conference – “Israelis and Palestinians: Working Together for a Better Future”. Co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies, Elga K. Stulman Fund and Moskow Fund, Vice President for International Affairs, Watson Institute.

May 4, 2011: Melani Cammett, Political Science, Brown University and Yen-Ting Chen, School of Public Health, Harvard University - “Do Politics Kill? Political Institutions and Access to Health Care in Lebanon”. Biomed Center Eddy Auditorium, 5pm . Sponsored by the Global Health and Medicine Series.

Upcoming Middle East Seminar Series

February 7 at 5:00 PM Anne Mariel Peters -- What Does U.S. Aid 'Buy' in the Middle East?

Past Events

Wednesday, December 8, 2010: Talking to a Wall: 20 years of reporting on the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. A conversation with prominent Israeli journalist/author Amira Hass. Salomon 001, 7-9pm. Sponsored by Brown Students for Justice in Palestine and Common Ground.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - TALK RESCHEDULED - Dr. Omar Dewachi, medical anthropologist, physician, and public health specialist will talk about medicine/health in Iraq - "Of Hakims and Hakems: Medicine and the Biopolitical imaginaries of Mandatory Iraq". Giddings 212 (Anthropology Department, corner of Hope and Power streets), 12 noon. Sponsored by the Committee on Science adn technology Studies.

Friday, December 3 to Sunday, December 5, 2010: A symposium organized by Matthew T. Rutz, Brown University, and Morag M. Kersel, DePaul University - "Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics". Rhode Island Hall, Room 108. Three day, all day event. Sponsored by The Colver Lectureship Fund, The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, and the Program in Early Cultures, The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.

Thursday, December 2, 2010: Brown Bag Series in Archaeology presents Haffenreffer Museum Pizza Roundtable Discussion with Amazonian Archaeologist Michael Heckenberger, University of Florida. Haffenreffer Museum at Manning Hall, 1:00 pm. Please note later start time and change of location. Sponsored by Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.

Thursday, November 18, 2010: Brown Bag Series in Archaeology presents John (Mac) Marston, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology - "Land Use and Abuse in Ancient Anatolia". Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 12:10pm. (sponsored by Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World)

Wednesday, November 17, 2010: Dr. Hercules Millas - “History Teaching and the Formation of National Identity: the Greek and Turkish Cases Compared”. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 5:30pm (co-sponsored by the Program of Modern Greek Studies, the Watson Institute, the Center for Language Studies, Middle East Studies, the Hellenic Students Association, and the Turkish Students Association

Wednesday, November 17, 2010: Ross Caputi, Dahr Jamail, and Dahlia Wasfi - “Remembering Fallujah”. Barus and Holley, Room 168, 7:00pm (sponsored by Anti-War Action)

Tuesday, November 16, 2010: Film Screening “Afghan Star” - Macmillan Hall, Room 115, 7:00pm (this screening is a part of South Asian Identity Week)

Tuesday, November 16, 2010: Moawiyah M. Ibrahim, Representative of Jordan to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee and the President of the Society of Friends of Archaeology & Heritage, - “The Archaeology of the Jordan Valley”. Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 6:30pm (sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World)

Monday, November 15, 2010: Fiachra Ó Luain, Irish, American, and Palestinian citizen on board of the Mavi Marmara flotilla - “Eyewitness to Israel’s Attack on the Gaza Flotilla”. Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 7:00pm (sponsored by Brown Students for Justice in Palestine)

Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010: Prof. Andrew March, Political Science, Yale University - "Speech and the Sacred: Is Religious Injury a Problem for Secular Political Theory?". Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 4-6pm (co-sponsored with the Political Philosophy Workshop).

Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010: Dr. Jocelyn Cesari, Director of the Islam in the West Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University - “Muslims in the West After 9/11: Religion, Law and Politics”. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 5pm (sponsored by the Colloquium on Comparative Research)

Thursday, November 4, 2010: Dr. Arzoo Osanloo, Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s Law, Societies, and Justice Program - "Calling the French President's Wife a 'Prostitute': The Global Politics of Protecting Iranian Women." Pembroke Hall, Room 305

Nov. 1, 2010: Prof. Beshara Doumani, Dept. of History, U.C. Berkeley - “Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900”. Hillel House, 12:10pm (sponsored by the Dept. of History)

Oct. 28, 2010: Bryan Daves, Political Science, Yeshiva University - “Are All Politics Local? Can Presidential Electoral Politics Explain U.S.-Israeli Relations?”. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 5pm

Oct. 26, 2010: Dr. Elizabeth Kassab, Visiting Fellow and Researcher, Erfurt University, Germany - “What is Enlightenment? Arab and Postcolonial Perspectives”. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 5pm

Oct. 20, 2010: Prof. Charles Tripp, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - "Shadowing Power: Lineages of the Dual State in Iraq". Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 4pm (sponsored by the Peter Green Lectures on the Modern Middle East Fund)

Oct. 15, 2010: Prof. Janet Afary, Dept. of History, U.C. Santa Barbara - “Shi'i Reformation and the Green Movement in Iran,” Hillel House, 12:10pm (sponsored by the Dept. of History)

Oct. 12, 2010: Dr. Emily O'Dell, Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University - “In the Heart of Islam: Sufi Travels and Tales,” Smith Buanano 106, 6pm. (sponsored by the Arabic Language Program)

Sept. 23, 2010: Prof. Israel Gershoni, Dept. of History, Tel Aviv University - “The Crime of Nazism Against Humanity: Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat and the Outbreak of the Second World War,” McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 12:10pm sSponsored by the Dept. of History)

Sept. 22, 2010: Screening of “Little Town of Bethlehem” by Jim Hanon of Ethno Graphic Films. Discussion with producers and director Jim Hanon, Salomon 101, 7pm (co-sponsored with the Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies, University of Rhode Island)

Sept. 16, 2010: Prof. James Gelvin, Dept. of History, UCLA - “‘Modernity,’ ‘Tradition’ and the Battleground of Gender in Early Twentieth Century Damascus," Hillel House, 12:10pm (sponsored by the Dept. of History)

Sept. 15, 2010: Prof. James Gelvin, Dept. of History, UCLA - “A Global War on What Exactly? Understanding Political Islam from the Inside Out,” Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 4-5pm (co-sponsored with Dept. of History)

Academic Year 2009/2010

Events

Thursday, May 6, 2010, 12-1pm; 2-3pm, McKinney Conf. Room, 3rd floor, Middle East Studies Program - Senior Capstone Presentations

Monday, May 3, 2010, 6:30pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS - Uzma Z. Rizvi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute - Check Points: Reinterpreting Movement, Material, and Heritage in Iraq - Co Sponsored by Middle East Studies, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Deputy Provost's Office, Joukowsky Institute

Friday, April 30, 2010, 12 noon, List Art Center, #110 - Nasser Rabbat, M.I.T. - The Glamour Factor in the Cities of the Arabian Gulf - Sponsored by History of Art and Architecture; the Cogut Center for the Humanities; Urban Studies Program

Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7pm, Barus & Holley, room 168, 182 Hope St.- Dr. Mustapha Barghouti - Palestine in Crisis. What We Can Learn from Gandhi - Hosted by Brown Students for Justice in Palestine and Co-sponsored by Middle East Studies; Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Office of the Dean of the College, The Office of Interntional Affairs and the Program in Liberal Medical Education

Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 12 noon, McKinney Conference Room, WIIS - Middle East Studies Brown Bag Series - Omur Harmansah - Houses, Ruins and Memory - an Architectural Ethnography in Eastern Turkey - Sponsored by Middle East Studies

Tuesday, April 27, 2010, tent., 6-8pm, Arabic Night - Sponsored by Center for Language Study and Middle East Studies

April 22-23, 2010 Iranian Festival - Apr. 23, 11:30am - Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution - A documentary film chronicling the history of Iranian filmmaking, McCormack Familty Theater, 70 Brown St.; Apr. 23, 4pm - Windows - From the experimental film series by Shoja Azari; plus street footage from the recent troubles in Iran, curated by Moniro Ravanipour, McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St.

Monday, April 19, 2010, 5:30pm - Maddock Alumni Center, Brian Room, 38 Brown Street (corner of George): New Perspectives in Arabic and Comparative Literature Lecture Series: Margaret Larkin, UCLA Berkeley, 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati's "The Death of al-Mutanabbi" A Case Study in Arabic Intertextuality' - Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature

Thursday, April 15, 2010, 6pm - Rhode Island Hall 108, Susan J. Allen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Up the Nile in Style: Travel in Egypt, Napoleon to 1930 - Sponsored by Egyptology & Ancient Western Asian Studies and the Friends of Egyptology

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 12 noon - Ipek Celik, McKinney Conference Room, WIIS - Middle East Studies Brown Bag Series - Armenians in Contemporary Turkish Literature

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 7pm - Foxboro Auditorium, Kassar House: The Unrule of Law in the Occupied Territories: Prison and Human Rights - Comparative Panel with International Law and Human Rights Experts on the Topics of Incarceration and War in Israel/Palestine and the United States: Lisa Hajjar, Chair, Law and Society, UCSB; Nancy Murray, President of Gaza Mental Health Foundation; Ahmad Amara, Global Advocacy Fellow, Harvard Law School. Sponsored by Common Ground and Middle East Studies

Monday, April 12, 2010, 12 noon, Zimmer Lounge-Lower Maxcy Hall - Prof. Karen Barkey, Columbia Univ. - Empire and Toleration: Managing Religious Pluralism in the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires - Sponsored by Sociology

Monday, April 12, 2010, 5pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS - Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director for Middle East/North Africa, Human Rights Watch - Human Rights in the Middle East - Sponsored by Middle East Studies

Monday, April 12, 2010, 7:00pm, Starr Auditorium, MacMillan 117, 167 Thayer Street - Anthony Shadid, Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post - Stones without People: Loss and Nostalgia in Lebanon, Iraq and the Middle East

Friday, April 9, 2010, 3-4:30pm, Foxboro Auditorium, Kassar House - Dr.Alick Isaacs, Shalom Hartman Intitute; and Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Renewed Zionism: A New Case for Peace - Sponsored by Hillel House and Middle East Studies

Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 6:30pm, Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall 117, 167 Thayer Street- Toby Dodge, associate professor of International Politics at Queen Mary College, University of London - The Future of Iraq after Regime Change, Civil War and Counter-Insurgency

Monday, April 5, 2010, 12 noon, List Art Center, #110 - Hashim Sarkis, Harvard University - Beirut Normal - Sponsored by History of Art and Architecture; the Cogut Center for the Humanities; Urban Studies Program

CANCELLED Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 6:00pm, Wilson 102, Hala Nassar, Assistant Professor of Modern Arab Culture, Literature and Thought, Yale University - The City in Contemporary Arabic Poetry: The Case of Mahmud Darwish - Sponsored by the Center for Language Studies and Middle East Studies

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 5:30pm, Brown Univ. Rhode Island Hall 108 (60 George St.) - Dr. Moraq M. Kersel, Joukowsky Institute for Archeology and the Ancient World - Selling the Holy Land: The Trade in Middle Eastern Antiquities - Presented by Archeological Institute of America Narragansett Society

Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 7pm, Kassar House, Foxboro Auditorium - Jared Malsin, Palestinian news agency Ma'an - Press Freedom in Israel/Palestine Sponsored by: Common Ground: Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel, Puzzle Peace, Brown Students for Justice in Palestine

Friday, March 19, 2010, 5:30pm, Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, V. Y. Mudimbe, Duke University - In the House of Lybia: A Meditation - Presented by the Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Literature - Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature

Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 8:00-9:00pm, MacMillan 117, Nadav Tamir, Consul General of the State of Israel to New England - Israel and the Changing Middle East - Sponsored by the Brown/RISD Hillel and Brown Students for Israel

Monday, March 15, 2010, 8pm, Smith-Buonono, 106 - Yael. Zerubavel, Rutgers University - Revisiting Exile: Zionism, Cultural Diversity, and the Politics of Identity in Israel - Sponsored by Judaic Studies

Monday, March 15, 2010, 5:30pm, Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Center - Dwight F. Reynolds, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara - New Perspectives in Arabic and Comparative Literature - Lecture Series 'Arabic Autobiography and its European Counterparts' - Sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:30pm, MacMillan Hall, Starr Auditorium, Room 117 - A panel discussion: A Conversation with David Makovsky and Ghaith Al-Omari -- In Memory of Avi Schaefer -- Israel and Palestine: Stalemate and the Possibility of Peace

- Sponsored by Program in Judaic Studies, Middle East Studies, Common Ground, Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel, Puzzle Peace, Brown Students for Israel, Israel on Campus Coalition

Monday, March 8, 2010, 7pm, McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street – Incuhabitations II: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry – Readings by Rachel Zolf & Andrea Actis

Monday, March 8, 2010, 5:30pm, Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Center - Christopher Stone, Hunter College, City U of NY - Nostalgia and Egyptian Cultural Icons: From Abdul Halim to Ahmad Zaki - Sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS, Ronald W. Zweig, NY University - The Palestinian Refugee Issue in Israel-American Relations, to 1967

Sunday, February 28, and March 1, 2010 – Social Theory and the Study of Israelite Religion: Retrospect and Prospect conference – Sponsored by Judaic Studies

Friday, February 19, 2010 - 2pm, Joukowsky Forum - Rashid Khalidi, PhD. Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Department of History, Columbia University - Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East

Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7pm, MacMillan Hall - Rashid Khalidi, Ph.D., Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Department of History, Columbia University - The Uncertain Future of Palestine - Sponsored by International Affairs, Watson Institute for International Studies, MES

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 4pm, McKinney Conference Room, WIIS - Leyla Keough, Ph.D., Anthropology, Visiting Lecturer, Bridgewater State College- "Driven Women": Gendered Moral Economies of New Migrations to Turkey - Sponsored by MES

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 5:30pm, Salomon Center 101 - Salman Rushdie - Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World

CANCELLED Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel, 2nd floor (corner of Brown and Angell Streets) - Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor of History, UC Davis - The Character of Incalculability: Statistics and the Construction of the Social in 20th Century Egypt

Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 6pm, RI Hall - Prof. Matthew Rutz - Ancient Libraries before Alexandria: Some Views from Western Asia - Sponsored by Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies

Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 4:30pm, Salomon 001 - Prof. Sherman "Abd al-Hakim" Jackson - Muslims, Islam(s), Race and Racial Agnosia in America - Sponsored by Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, Department of Africana Studies, Brown Muslim Students Association, Heimark Fund, Imani Jubilee, Office of Institutional Diversity, Department of Religious Studies, Third World Center

Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 7pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS, Bruce Riedel, Presidential Advisor Assesses Afghanistan Strategy – Sponsored by Watson Institute for International Studies

Monday, November 30, 2009, 7:30pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS - Bruce Riedel '75, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution - Obama's War: Finding the Right Strategy - Sponsored by Watson Institute for International Studies

Monday, November 30, 2009, 5-6:30pm, No. Common Room, 232, WIIS - Middle East Studies Open House - Sponsored by MES

Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 2:30-4:00pm, Brown-RISD Hillel - Michael B. Oren, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, will deliver a public lecture on the history and status of the U.S.- Israel relationship - Sponsored by The Brown Students for Israel

Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:00pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS - Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., Deputy Ambassador, American Embassy, Kabul, Afghanistan - What are we doing in Afghanistan? - Sponsored by Watson Institute for International Studies