Event Category: Cosponsored by MES
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Dec 2Writing and Filming Queer North African StoriesAbdellah Taïa
1155 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706, 206 Ingraham Hall
Through his writing and filmmaking, Taïa challenges dominant representations of gender, sexuality, migration, and North African experience while opening space for other ways of imagining identity, intimacy, and belonging.
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Apr 14Sharing Jerusalem: Urban Mixing and Its Limits in a Late Ottoman CityMichelle Campos
Michelle Campos is a scholar of 19th- and early 20th-century Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern history whose work focuses on three overlapping fields: the history of Palestine and Israel; the late Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern Middle East; and Sephardic Jewish studies.