Past Event Category: Sponsored by MESP
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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.