Insurgent Legality: Law in the Making and Breaking of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, September 24, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Pink Parlor, East Duke Building
Dr. Mara Revkin
State Fragmentation and the Crisis of Governance in Post-Bashir Sudan
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, October 15, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Pink Parlor, East Duke Building
Dr. Mia Hassan
The Memory Project Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Dean of Humanities, Libraries, and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Nicole Barnes, Jim Cheng, Maggie Dickson, Guo-Juin Hong, Naomi Nelson, Mengqi Zhang
Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Jeongmin Kim (University of Manitoba)
Natasha Gordinsky: "Sonic Inheritance: War and Storytelling in Germanophone Post-Soviet Jewish Writing”
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES), German Studies, and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Natasha Gordinsky
Public Discourse and Journalism : The News Story from Tunisia, 2011–2026
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, October 29, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Emna Ben Jemaa
The Islamic Secular
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Department of Religious Studies, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Monday, November 09, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Pink Parlor, East Duke Building
Sherman A. Jackson
Color of Words Conference
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, November 12, 2026
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
TBA
Colonial Legacies, Citizenship, and the Making of the Modern Ugandan State
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Friday, November 20, 2026
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Dr. Mahmood Mamdani
