Past Event Category: Cosponsored by MES
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Oct 22How to Study Humanism and the Representations of Islam? A Dispatch from the Fronts of Today’s French ‘Culture Wars’French House
Join the UW French House for a guest lecture from Professor Tristan Vigliano (University Aix-Marselle) on Friday, October 22 at 4pm.
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Jul 30APTLI Friday Feature: Oud Instrument with Rahim AlhajThis lecture is offered as part of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Language Institute (APTLI) and is open to to students and the public.
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Jul 24APTLI Lecture: Reading Middle Eastern and North African Voices in Translation- What Literature can teach us in a Global Pandemic with Esra TaşdelenIn this talk, Dr. Tasdelen will draw from prominent examples of works by Middle Eastern and North African authors writing in Arabic and Turkish to show how reading translated literature will help shape our understanding of the world in a global pandemic and the new reality we have been facing in the past year.
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Jul 23APTLI Lecture: Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East with Tyler FisherDr. Tyler Fisher began working with the Kurds, Yezidis, and Assyrians of Iraqi Kurdistan in 2012 at the invitation of the Kurdish Regional Government’s Ministry of Higher Education, to assist in building their state university system’s humanities program.
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Jul 17APTLI Lecture: Baha’ AbuShanab, Palestinian FilmmakerPalestinian Filmmaker Baha’ AbuShanab will be discussing his film experience and filmmaking in Palestine in this lecture. His documentary, The Living of the Pigeons, will be covered.
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Jul 16APTLI Friday Feature: Persian Dance with Niosha Nafei JameliNiosha will introduce a few simple, fundamental and popular moves of Persian Modern and Pop dance and then will go over a few different styles of Persian dance from different regions of Iran.
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Jul 16APTLI Friday Feature: Persian Dance with Niosha Nafei JameliThis lecture is offered as part of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Language Institute (APTLI) and is open to to students and the public. Niosha will introduce a few simple, fundamental and popular moves of Persian Modern and Pop dance and then will go over a few different styles of Persian dance from different regions …
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Jul 10APTLI Lecture: “How is it like to be an LGBTI+ in Turkey?” with Emirhan Deniz ÇelebiThe focus of this lecture will be on LGBTI+ rights advocacy and/or service provision for women and LGBTI+ populations pre-Covid-19 & during the pandemic in different contexts in Turkey, and the implications on related issues, including: shrinking space in civil society, the precarity of human rights for the LGBTI+ community in Turkey, the line between solidarity and contestations.
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Jul 10APTLI Lecture: Problems of Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment in Muslim-Majority Countries with Dr. Ahmet KuruAhmet T. Kuru will talk about his new book “Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison” (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Why do Muslim-majority countries have high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-economic development in comparison to world averages?
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Jul 9APTLI Friday Feature: Arab Music, a Glimpse into the Soul of a CultureOnline via Zoom
Folk dancer and teaching artist Karim Nagi will demonstrate various musical instruments from around the Arab world. Through each instrument, and explanation of its creation & function, audiences observe a different aspect of Arab culture.