Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Killian Clarke (Georgetown University) dives into the big question at the heart of his new book, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed": why do some revolutions triumph while others collapse?
Events Category: MES Lecture Series
Fluid Frontiers
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Seçil Binboğa (University of Minnesota) will discuss how US influence expanded through Turkey’s airspace between 1951 and 1954, crossing borders to counter the spread of communism.
America’s Middle East
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Marc Lynch (George Washington University) details the United States’ disastrously failed approach to the post–Cold War Middle East, where aspirations for US leadership and a calm region have only produced war, instability and humanitarian catastrophe.
Jāl Mythmaking: Embodied Indigeneity in the Marshlands and Coasts of the Persian/Arabian Gulf
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Hanan Al-Alawi (UW-Madison) will explore how the marshland inhabitants of Iraq and coastal communities of southern Iran reimagine Indigeneity through mythmaking practices and embodied interactions with land and water.
