University of Wisconsin - Madison
If you want to take a summer class and advance your certificate, sign up for Art History 305: History of Islamic Art and Architecture. See flyer below for more information and feel free to email middleeaststudies@wisc.edu if you have any questions.
We are excited to announce our Fall ’21 lecture series! Due to the covid-19 pandemic we are currently planning on a mix of virtual and in-person lectures, and will update the website once the lectures are finalized. September 13: TBD September 27: Adam Spanos, Time Will Be the Judge: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and the …
This month, ArteEast is pleased to celebrate and showcase the work of famed Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman as part of the Arab Film Series online, in partnership with the Arab American National Museum, Arab Film and Media Institute and Doha Film Institute, presenting Suleiman’s four feature films: Chronicle Of A Disappearance (1996), Divine Intervention (2002), The …
Seeking research assistants for a new project digitizing historic maps of interwar Egypt. Selected RAs will be responsible for using open-source spatial analysis software (QGIS) to catalogue features such as roads, houses of worship, and administrative boundaries on a series of high resolution (1:25,000) scale maps of Egypt. All work is remote. Prior experience with …
The Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival is showing Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, an award winning documentary from 2011. The film follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for the big game during the last ten days of Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith while …
Please join the Medieval Studies Program on Thursday, April 15, 3pm, for their guest lecture with Professor Avinoam Shalem (colombia University). Click here to join on zoom. The lecture is part of the Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. Much has been written about medieval and early modern …
The 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival, presented by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Communication Arts, will take place virtually from May 13, 2021 – May 20, 2021. The festival will present eight solid days of refreshing, view-at-home cinema to a community of film lovers across the state and beyond. The film festival is co-sponsored by Middle …
The Medieval Studies Program at UW–Madison and the Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on Jerusalem invites you to attend the lecture, “Saladin’s Jerusalem,” by Professor Paul Cobb, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Chair, Department of NELC, University of Pennsylvania. The lecture will take place Thursday, April 8th, 2021 at …
Friday June 4th, 9:30am-1:30pm Friday June 11th Friday June 18th Click here to register. This year’s annual Keyman Conference, Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism, will focus on Queer and Gender Studies. The primary aim of the conference is to engage with the global debate taking place on intersectionality. …
Marking the launch of the MEI Art Gallery exhibit, In This Moonless Black Night: Syrian Art After the Uprising, MEI is pleased to host a conversation exploring how Syrian artists in exile have addressed the hope, trauma and displacement of the past decade through their art. Among the 14 participating artists, US-based artists Lara …