Capturing the Moment: Centuries of the Passover Haggadah
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Divinity School, Jewish Life at Duke, Libraries, and Religious Studies
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Kalman Bland
Ecological Exceptionalism at the Border: Landscapes of Hope and Impossibility in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Thursday, March 23, 2017
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Eleana Kim
Screen/Society--Documenting the Middle East--"Remake, Remix, Rip-Off "
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Libraries
Thursday, March 23, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:50 pm
Introduced by Didem Havlioglu (AMES); Q&A to follow!
Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema-- Screenings and Conversations with South Korean Indy Film Collective PINKS--"Miracle on Jongno Street"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, March 24, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker LEE Hyuk-Sang!
Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema-- Screenings and Conversations with South Korean Indy Film Collective PINKS--"Two Doors"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Sunday, March 26, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker KIM Il-Rhan!
Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema-- Screenings and Conversations with South Korean Indy Film Collective PINKS--"Goodbye My Hero"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Monday, March 27, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker HAN Young-hee!
Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema-- Screenings and Conversations with South Korean Indy Film Collective PINKS--"The Remnants" [reception at 5.30pm in Bryan Ctr, film at 7pm in Griffith]
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Q&A to follow w/ filmmakers KIM Il-Rhan + LEE Hyuk-sang! / Preceded by a reception at 5:30pm on "The Landing" (Bryan Center, formerly the location of Au Bon Pain).
HINDI Script Workshop
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, March 31, 2017
3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema [Hong Kong]--"Boundary"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Monday, April 03, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Q&A to follow w/ director Ben WONG King-fai and producer Mary WONG Shuk-han!
Screen/Society--Documenting the Middle East--"The Wanted 18" + "Al-Nakba and the City of Lyd: A Work in Progress"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Libraries
Thursday, April 13, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:40 pm
Introduced by Nancy Kalow (Center for Documentary Studies); Q&A to follow with Sarah Friedland, Nancy Kalow, and Sofia Farah, a UNC graduate student from nearby the town where "The Wanted 18" takes place!
Feminist Visions and Activist Dilemmas of the US Black Lives Matter and SA Fees Must Fall Movements: A Transnational Conversation
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Sociology
Friday, April 14, 2017
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Sara L. Friedman (Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University), Carlos Rojas (AMES, GSF, and AMI, Duke University), Chair: Juliette Duara (Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University)
Islam & Black Feminism
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
6:00 pm
Pink Parlors, East Duke
Dr. Jamillah Karim
Arabic Night
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arabic halaqa
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Prof. Mothanna Taha Al-Hoory
Cries from Syria Documentary Screening & Discussion with filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky and Dr. Abdeslam Maghraoui
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
121 S. Estes Drive Suite 205 D
Screen/Society--Cine-East [Taiwan]--Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Dust in the Wind"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Monday, September 11, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
introduced by Prof. Guo-Juin Hong (AMES)
Arabic Reception
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, September 14, 2017
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Screen/Society--Documenting the Middle East [Turkey]--"Kedi"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Focus Program
Thursday, September 14, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Dicussion to follow
Chinese Politics in the Xi Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Dr. Cheng Li
Screen/Society--Cine-East--"Raise the Umbrellas" (documentary) + panel discussion on Democracy in Hong Kong w/ dir. Evans Chan & special guests
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Global Asia Initiative
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Panel discussion to follow w/ dir. Evans CHAN, Rwei-ren WU (Academica Sinica), and Prof. Ho-fung HUNG (Sociology, Johns Hopkins); moderated by Prasenjit DUARA (East Asian Studies, Duke)
Hindi Conversation Club- Fall 2017
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, September 28, 2017
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Screen/Society--Special Events--"Ahlaam" ("Dreams")
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Literature
Thursday, September 28, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Introduced by miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures (AMES)
Corpse Exhibition: Iraqi Literature after 2003
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Literature
Friday, September 29, 2017
All Day
Sinan Antoon
Iron Age Hebrew Epigraphy in the Silicon Age: An Algorithmic Approach To Study Paleo-Hebrew Inscriptions
Sponsor(s):
Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Bass Connections-Information, Society & Culture, Center for Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Mathematics, Pratt School of Engineering, and Statistical Science
Thursday, October 12, 2017
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Barak Sober (Tel Aviv University)
Bollywood Movie Screening- Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, October 13, 2017
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Screen/Society--Cine-East [Taiwan]--Edward Yang's "The Terrorizers"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Monday, October 16, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
introduced by Prof. Guo-Juin Hong (AMES)
Chinese Studies Information Night
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Chi-Ju Hsieh
"An Italian Jesuit in Canton and the War on the Chinese: 'Orientalism,' Conquest, and the Eastern Indian Ocean in the 16th Century"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Religious Studies
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
An Arab Jew in Rome: "Zionism" and "Islamophobia" in the 16th Century and Now
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and History
Thursday, October 19, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Screen/Society--Documenting the Middle East [Palestine]--"Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Focus Program
Thursday, October 19, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Q&A to follow w/ Prof. Nadia Yaqub (Asian Studies, UNC-CH)
Screen/Society--Cine-East [China/USA]--"Maineland" documentary
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Monday, October 23, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Introduced by Prof. Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology)
Hindi Conversation Club- Fall 2017
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, October 26, 2017
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
The Mosque in the Triangle, NC: Communities and Actors, Join Duke Arabic Halaq for Roundtable Discussion
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, October 26, 2017
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Imam Mowlid Ali and Dr. Khalid Shahu
Hindi Script Workshop
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, October 27, 2017
3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Kusum Knapcyzk
Video Skit Competition
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
All Day
See description
YASAK/BANNED: Print Media and Cultural Spaces from Abdülhamid to Erdogan
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Libraries
Thursday, November 02, 2017
All Day
Edhem Eldem
Jewish Life at Duke Presents Yavilah McCoy
Sponsor(s):
Jewish Life at Duke, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Baldwin Scholars, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Multicultural Affairs, Center for Race Relations (CRR), Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM), Duke Chapel, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center), Duke Friends of Israel (DFI), Duke Israel Public Affairs Committee (DIPAC), Duke Jewish Student Union (JSU), Fraternity & Sorority Life, Housing, Dining and Residence Life (HDRL), J Street U, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center), TAMID, Trinity College, Undergraduate Education, University Center Activities & Events (UCAE), and Women's Center
Monday, November 06, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Yavilah McCoy
Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic:The Mohamet Family and the Problem of Religious and Ethnic Identity
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Wednesday, November 08, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Professor Wendy Wilson-Fall
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