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
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
Thursday, September 28, 2017
7:00 pm
Sinan Antoon
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)
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), 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), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and History
Thursday, October 19, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
TBD
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
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
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
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
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
