Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Professor Lior Sternfeld (Penn State University) will discuss the making of the Iranian Jewish diaspora community in Israel and the US (especially in Southern California).
Past Events Category: MES Lecture Series
Projecting Anxiety: Lebanon, Africa, and the Diasporic Condition
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Ghenwa Hayek (University of Chicago) engages with critical contemporary scholarship in diaspora studies by using the Lebanese case to consider how the diaspora is imagined from within the homeland; and, further, how specific diasporic imaginaries and entanglements have been used to conceptualize national identity domestically.
The China-Morocco Relation: From Third World Internationalism to Strategic Hedging
Ingraham 336 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Zaynab El Bernoussi is an associate professor of political science at The Africa Institute specializing in dignity politics, international relations, and the international political economy.
Palestine and Arab-Israeli Peace
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
This presentation will cover Arab-Israeli peace initiatives and their impacts following the 1994 Oslo Accords. The focus will be on American-led peace initiatives under both the Trump and Biden administrations, with a discussion of projected American foreign policy under a second Trump term.
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Professor Bhungalia demonstrates how US empire operates as a topological formation that projects security and war power through opaque arrangements and blended genres of rule—in this case contracted relationships of aid—that render Washington’s counterterrorism regime intimately embedded in the lifeworlds of those afar.
Arab Brazil: Ternary Orientalism and the Question of South-South Comparison
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Waïl S. Hassan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will discuss how the Arab world in Brazil works paradoxically as a site of otherness (different language, culture, and religion) and solidarity (with cultural, historical, demographic, and geopolitical ties).
Subaltern Intellectuals in Muslim Africa: Slavery, Artisanship, and Transregional Networks of Knowledge and Migration
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Khaled Esseissah (UW-Madison) is an assistant professor and a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century West Africa.
Infrastructures of Revolt: Mass Politics and Anti-Colonial Revolutions in the Middle East
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford) re-examines one of the key features of British colonialism – the building of infrastructure – and explores how this shaped the possibilities of anti-colonial revolution. Focusing on the 1919 Revolution …
Siege Creep: Waste, Airbnb, and Speculation between Israel/Palestine and Athens
Online via Zoom @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College) draws on long term fieldwork for two book projects, one based in Palestine and the other based in Greece, to make the case for thinking about the strategies people use to mitigate besieging circumstances through questions about infrastructure.
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt
Online via Zoom @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Jessica Barnes, associate professor at the University of South Carolina, explores the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat.
