Past Event Category: Sponsored by MESP
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Mar 25Abu Salim in Africa: Cinema and the Lebanese Emigrant ExperienceIngraham 206
In this talk, Hayek discusses the role that Lebanese cinema has played in articulating anxieties over emigration by exploring the long history of Lebanese engagement with the African continent.
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Nov 19Prophet al-Khidr, Between (the Qur’anic) Text and (the Mystical) TraditionIngraham 206
This presentation will seek to identify what connects the many sides of this enigmatic figure who is revered in many Muslim cultures around the world.
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Oct 29Stay in Turkey or Continue Toward Europe? Palestinians Displaced from Syria and the Instability of ExileThis presentation will highlight the cultural, political, economic, and physical factors that help explain why some Palestinians displaced by the war in Syria have stayed in Turkey instead of using the country as a transit point to Europe.
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Oct 15A Clash of Civilizations? East-West Migrations, Islamophobia, and the Cosmopolitanism of Mohja Kahf and Marjane SatrapiThe lecture will explore the different responses of diasporic women writers of Muslim backgrounds as they recast East/West binaries in the context of religion and cosmopolitan ideals.
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Sep 24Transitional Justice in Tunisia: The Forgotten VictimsThis lecture addresses the fate of the thousands of so-called indirect victims, i.e. individuals who were persecuted, discriminated and socially excluded because they were related to political detainees.
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Apr 30Islamic reform and print, 1880-1920The merger of the printing and reform movements gave rise to international networks of scholars striving to locate, edit, finance, and print classical works. These networks spanned and connected Europe, Turkey, the Arab lands, and India.
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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.