A musical Evening with Samy Youssef
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Arab Student Organization (ASO), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, March 02, 2017
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
**CANCELLED** Palestine & US Relations
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Political Science, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Palestinian Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat
**CANCELLED** Two-state Solution vs One-state Solution
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Political Science, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Palestinian Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat
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!
Muslim Women in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Council for European Studies, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Ina Merdjanova
The Algerian Remake: Kamel Daoud and Boualem Sansal
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Friday, March 31, 2017
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Professor Corbin Treacy (FSU)
Gallery Opening - Creative Memory: The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution
Thursday, April 06, 2017
4:30 am - 6:00 pm
Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Cultural Anthropology, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Monday, April 10, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Behrooz Ghamari
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!
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
Authoritarian Backlash: An Interregional Comparison of Turkey and Venezuela
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Forum for Scholars and Publics, and Political Science
Friday, September 08, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 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
The Middle East and Islam in Global History: Three New Books
Sponsor(s):
History, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Libraries
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Cemil Aydin, Will Hanley, Adam Mestyan
The Anthropologist and the Settler: Updates From the Field in Israel/Palestine
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 28, 2017
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Joyce Dalsheim
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
Subduing the Saints: State Control over Sufi Lodges in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Brett Wilson (CEU)
"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)
International Law and Fifty Years of Occupation
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, October 20, 2017
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Lisa Hajjar
Posting While Palestinian: Shifting Bounds for Expression in the West Bank and Israel
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 26, 2017
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Amahl Bishara
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
Human Rights on Camera in the Palestinian West Bank
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 09, 2017
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Helen Yanovsky
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Screen/Society--Documenting the Middle East--"Letters from Baghdad"
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, November 09, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Introduced by Nancy Kalow (Documentary Studies); discussion to follow!
Jerusalem Fifty Years On: United or Occupied?
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 16, 2017
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Daniel Seidemann
Urban Topography and Political Economy in the Middle East: A Digital Humanities Workshop Comparing Istanbul and Cairo
Sponsor(s):
History, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Economics, Information Science + Studies (ISS), Libraries, PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, and Political Science
Monday, November 20, 2017
All Day
Summer FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Africa Initiative, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Monday, December 04, 2017
12:00 pm
Enabler or Peacemaker? U.S. Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, December 05, 2017
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Lara Friedman
Book Talk - Mihrî Hatun: Perfomance, Gender-Bending and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History
Friday, January 26, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Didem Havlioglu with Samer Ali and Michele Longino
Before 'Global Modernisms': Renaissance, Reform, and Rewriting in the 19th-20th c. Global South
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Monday, January 29, 2018
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Lital Levy
Map, Territory, and Boundary - Duke-UNC Annual Graduate Student Conference
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Duke Islamic Studies Center, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Political Science, and Religious Studies
Friday, February 09, 2018
All Day
Keynote: Banu Gokariksel
Duke Undergraduate Working Group on MENA
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Josh Curtis, Bryan Rusch
The Grey Wolf & Bear: Turkish-Russian Relations
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Forum for Scholars and Publics, and Political Science
Friday, February 16, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Jack Matlock, Robert Pearson, and Dimitar Bechev
Visual Qur'an: A conversation with Sandow Birk
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Sandow Birk and Bruce Lawrence
Emergency Legal Cultures: British Imperial Legacies: An International Legal Conference
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), India Initiative, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Monday, February 26, 2018
10:30 am - 3:00 pm
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Global Political Perspectives: Crash Course on Egyptian Politics
Sponsor(s):
POLIS: The Center for Political Leadership, Innovation, and Service, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and International House
Thursday, March 01, 2018
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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