Past Event Category: MES Lecture Series
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Apr 16Categorizing Muslims: Tactics of Intersubjectivity in a Progressive Muslim Community of PracticeIngraham 206
Drawing on data from a multi-sited linguistic ethnography of progressive Muslims, Katrina Daly Thompson explores how participants labeled themselves and others through talk-in-interaction and in online discussions.
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Apr 2The Palestinianization of American Jewish Anti-Zionism, 1942-1977Ingraham 206
Geoffrey Levin is a PhD candidate in Hebrew & Judaic Studies and History at New York University. His dissertation, titled “Another Nation: Israel, American Jews, and Palestinian Rights, 1949-1977,” connects the changing ways in which American Jews reacted to Palestinian rights claims with broader shifts in Israeli policy, American society, and global politics.
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Mar 19Rebuilding Islamic Jerusalem, ca 1035Ingraham 206
Focusing on the restorations of the Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, she argues for a productive outcome to the cataclysmic destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by the “mad” caliph, al-Hakim.
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Mar 5An Assessment of Democracy in Turkey from A Liberal PerspectiveIngraham 206
The presentation will consist of an analysis of the current state of democracy in Turkey from the perspective of liberal democratic values such as the principle of rule of law and limited government.
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Feb 19MES Lecture Series: Philip HollanderIngraham 206
Through analysis of Hanokh Bartov’s 1962 short story “Around the Ring Incident,” he demonstrates Israeli postmodernist fiction’s development decades before post-Zionism’s rise and point to the story as an example of constructive social criticism at home within Israeli national culture.
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Feb 16The ‘mal d’archives’ and Tunisian Women Revolutionary Art3401 Sterling Hall
Nevine El Nossery will mainly focus on Tunisian polyvalent artist Héla Ammar who explores art as a receptacle for defiant counter-archive, questioning concepts such as authenticity, authority, and historicity, and opening up horizons for civic imaginations to emerge within a network of social relations that are not precluded by the diktats of politics or institutions.
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Feb 5MES Lecture Series: Aili Mari TrippIngraham 206
The talk looks at women’s rights reforms in Algeria since the Black Decade (1992-2002) to show how Algeria is converging with Tunisia and Morocco in legislative and constitutional reforms, but also why these trends differ from trends in the Middle East, where these reforms have been much slower.