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Cries from Syria Documentary Screening & Discussion with filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky and Dr. Abdeslam Maghraoui

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
121 S. Estes Drive Suite 205 D
Meeting of presidents Maduro and Erdogan

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
Old Chemistry 011
Kedi (2017)

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
East Duke 209
Dicussion to follow
Book Launch poster

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
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Cemil Aydin, Will Hanley, Adam Mestyan
50 Years of Occupation, 1967-2017: Israel/Palestine, Histories and Futures

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
Image from Ahlaam (2006)

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
East Duke 209
Introduced by miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures (AMES)
Corpse Exhibition: Iraqi Literature after 2003

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
East Duke Parlors
Sinan Antoon
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Subduing the Saints: State Control over Sufi Lodges in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey

Sponsor(s): History, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
West Duke 101 - Ahmadieh Family Conference Room
Brett Wilson (CEU)
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"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
Lilly Library
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
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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
Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105 - Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016)

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
White 107 (White Lecture Hall)
Q&A to follow w/ Prof. Nadia Yaqub (Asian Studies, UNC-CH)
50 Years of Occupation, 1967-2017: Israel/Palestine, Histories and Futures

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
50 Years of Occupation, 1967-2017: Israel/Palestine, Histories and Futures

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 Erdo¿an

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
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Edhem Eldem
50 Years of Occupation, 1967-2017: Israel/Palestine, Histories and Futures

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
"Letters from Baghdad" (2016).

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
White 107 (White Lecture Hall)
Introduced by Nancy Kalow (Documentary Studies); discussion to follow!
50 Years of Occupation, 1967-2017: Israel/Palestine, Histories and Futures

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

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
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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
John Hope Franklin Center 130-132
50 Years of Occupation, 1967-2017: Israel/Palestine, Histories and Futures

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
Didem Havlioglu Book Talk

Book Talk - Mihrî Hatun: Perfomance, Gender-Bending and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, January 26, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Didem Havlioglu with Samer Ali and Michele Longino
Levy

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
Old Chemistry 011
Lital Levy
Graduate Student Conference

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
Sanford School -- Rubenstein Hall, Room 200
Keynote: Banu Gokariksel
Undergraduate Working Group on MENA poster

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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Josh Curtis, Bryan Rusch
Turkish-Russian Forum

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
Old Chemistry 011
Jack Matlock, Robert Pearson, and Dimitar Bechev
American Quran

Visual Qur'an: A conversation with Sandow Birk

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Perkins Library 217
Sandow Birk and Bruce Lawrence
Emergency Legal Cultures

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
West Duke, Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, Room 101
Global Political Perspectives: Egypt

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
Sanford 223, Rhodes Conference Room
Ahmad Poster

Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Attiya Ahmad, Ph.D.
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A Picture of Health: Visualizing Care in Late Ottoman Istanbul

Sponsor(s): International Comparative Studies (ICS), Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Health Humanities Lab (HHL)
Monday, April 02, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
310 Trent Drive, Basement 037A
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
Geopolitics of Conspiracy from Turkey to Trump poster

The Geopolitics of Conspiracy from Turkey to Trump

Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Erda¿ Göknar
Student presenting in front of map

Duke's Global Studies Experiences

**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, September 13, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Bostock Library - The Edge Workshop Room
Global Studies Experiences Flyer

Global Studies Experience

Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Africa Initiative, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Concilium on Southern Africa, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Global Asia Initiative, and India Initiative
Monday, September 24, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Bostock Library - The Edge Workshop Room
Film: Starless Dreams

Middle East Film Series: Starless Dreams

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Monday, September 24, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
White 107 (White Lecture Hall)
Amir ElSaffar + Hamid Al-Saadi

Building Bridges: Muslims in America: Amir ElSaffar+Hamid Al-Saadi

Sponsor(s): Duke Performances, Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, October 04, 2018
8:00 pm
Rubenstein Arts Center, von der Heyden Studio Theater
no exit

No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, & Decolonization

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Literature
Friday, October 12, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Old Chemistry 011
Yoav DI-Capua
taste of cement

Middle East Film Series: Taste of Cement

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Monday, October 15, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
White 107 (White Lecture Hall)
bayat profile

Understanding the Arab Revolutions

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Duke Islamic Studies Center
Thursday, October 18, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Asef Bayat (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Oddisee

Building Bridges: Muslims in America: Oddisee

Sponsor(s): Duke Performances, Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, October 18, 2018
8:00 pm
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