Past Event Category: Sponsored by MESP
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Apr 17Annual MESP Conference: The United States and the Middle East: Geopolitics, Resistance and PowerMemorial Library, Room 126 Click here for up-to-date information!
The Middle East remains a vital site where political authority, social transformation, and cultural identity are continually negotiated and reimagined. This interdisciplinary conference gathers scholars from various fields to examine how communities in the Middle East and its diasporas reshape politics, culture, and identity—on the ground, online, and through art.
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Feb 2Children’s International Story Hour: “These Olive Trees”Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716
We are excited to present the children’s book: These Olive Trees by Aya Ghanameh (Author, Illustrator). We will be reading the book to children, introducing basic Arabic words, teaching basic facts about Palestine, creating an art project based on the book, and sampling Palestinian cuisine! This is part of a series that introduces children’s literature that celebrates the …
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Oct 27Children’s International Story Hour: “Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine”Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716
We will be reading the book to the children, introducing basic Arabic words, teaching basic facts about Palestine, creating an art project based on the book, and sampling Palestinian cuisine!
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Oct 8Art and Resistance in “Power Born of Dreams”Join us online for a discussion with Mohammad Sabaaneh, the author and illustrator of the award winning graphic novel "Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine".
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Apr 10Annual MESP Conference: The Global Middle EastMemorial Union, UW-Madison
Join us for our annual spring conference! Hear from a variety of Middle East scholars from around the globe on this important and fascinating theme.
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Apr 12MESP Annual Conference: Environment and Climate Change in the Middle EastMemorial Union, UW-Madison
Hear academic experts across a variety of fields present new and cutting-edge work on this important issue.
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Mar 18Siege Creep: Waste, Airbnb, and Speculation between Israel/Palestine and AthensOnline via Zoom
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.
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Feb 26Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in EgyptOnline via Zoom
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.
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Nov 29A Panel Discussion: Conflict in Israel-PalestineOnline via Zoom Join us!
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 • 6 pm
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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.