Past Events
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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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Apr 1Overture Center for the Arts International Festival 2023Overture Center
Taste cuisines, view stunning arts and crafts from around the world, and find information from many local organizations and businesses with global connections. More than 40 cultures will be represented with 30-plus artists and 30-plus craft/arts and food vendors.
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Apr 1Overture Center for the Arts International Festival 2023Overture Center 201 State Street Madison, WI 53703
Together, we will celebrate the rich cultural heritage and diversity of our community with free performances throughout Overture by artists who call Dane County home.
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Mar 30From Gecekondu to A Strangeness: One-Hundred Years of Rural-Urban Relations in TurkeyCurti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building
Prof. Reşat Kasaba is an expert on Turkish Modern History. Over the last three decades, his research and publications on the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey in the nineteenth and twentieth century have covered social and economic history, state-society relations, migration, ethnicity and nationalism, modernity and urban history.
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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.
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Feb 3Race and Islam in Historical PerspectiveOnline via Zoom
Professor El Hamel discusses the emergence and evolution of ideas of race and color in the Middle East and North Africa. This lecture is mainly interested in racial constructs built around notions of color and lineage. It traces distinct genealogies of race and racism to the beginning of the Islamic empire.
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Dec 2Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi ArabiaOnline via Zoom
Rosie Bsheer of Harvard University explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca.
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Nov 14From South Africa 2010 to Qatar 2022: The lessons and legacies of sporting mega-events with Peter AlegiAfrican soccer expert Peter Alegi examines the lessons and legacies we can draw from South Africa’s experience in 2010, and tells us what to look for in the forthcoming World Cup.