Past Event Category: MES Lecture Series
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Nov 6Climate Change and the Future of the City in Contemporary Arabic Dystopian FictionIngraham 206
This talk analyses the representation of the climate crisis and urban imaginaries in post-2011 Arabic science-fiction (SF), focusing on examples from Egypt and Iraq.
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Oct 30Rise, Decline, and Ultimate Demise of the Middle East: 15,000 Years of Recurring Climate CrisesIngraham 206
Environmental factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have played a crucial role in the historical and social development of the region. This presentation delves into a broad set of historical literature from the past 15,000 years that neglected to consider environmental factors to their full effect.
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Oct 16Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and MultitudesIngraham 206
Profesor Nevine El Nossery will discuss her latest book in which she explores the ways women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance.
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Sep 18Afterlives of Extraction in Morocco’s Renewable Energy TransitionIngraham 206
For Moroccans living climate change on so many levels, renewable energy infrastructures form part of larger structures of exclusion and animate diverse claims for autonomy and redistributive justice.
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Apr 21Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and DissentIngraham 206
In this talk based on her new book, "Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent" (Stanford University Press, 2022), Jillian Schwedler considers how space and geography influence protests and repression, and, in challenging conventional narratives of Hashemite state-making, offers the first in-depth study of rebellion in Jordan.
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Apr 12Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the TableProfessor Mona Tajali will discuss how religious and cultural norms, attitudes, institutional structures, and voter behavior affect the representation of women and quality of democracy in Muslim contexts, with a comparative focus on Iran and Turkey.
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Apr 7Place and Placelessness in the Novels of Najib MahfouzWithin the scope of cultural geography, Mahfouz’ novels and short stories can be viewed as a source of understanding and re-analyzing of the social geography of Egypt in the first half of the twentieth century, and the transformations underwent by this society during the transitional period from monarchy to the republican regime post-1952.
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Mar 24Natives Against Nativism: Palestine and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial FranceIngraham 206
Against the erasure of the central role of the Palestinian question in the emergence of grassroots antiracist discourses in postcolonial France, Professor Olivia Harrison mines the journals, tracts, photographs, and video fragments that constitute the incomplete and fragmented archive of these movements for evidence of a distinctly transcolonial form of antiracist activism, grounded in anticolonial solidarity with Palestinians.
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Mar 3Iran, Russia, Turkey: The Anti-Democracies of the 21st CenturyProfessor Hamit Bozarslan will discuss these three regimes. They are not the only anti-democratic ones that exists in the contemporary world, but they share some features that one cannot easily find elsewhere.
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Feb 17Sovereignty and Autonomy in the Late Ottoman EmpireIngraham 206
This talk traces the Ottoman roots of the post-imperial political order in the Middle East through an analysis of the inter-imperial contest over Ottoman autonomous provinces.