Past Events
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Nov 11Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and DevelopmentDrawing on findings from existing literature and the author’s research, it puts forth an institutional approach that takes membership in multiple, often competing communities into account, explaining how the salience of various arenas of authority associated with communities, and of nature of the social institutions within these arenas, affect politics and development.
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Nov 9International Film Club: The Workers Cup with Natasha Iskander (NYU-Wagner)Online via Zoom
Join us for the IRIS NRC November Film Club with Natasha Iskander, a Professor at NYU-Wagner, who recently published an acclaimed book examining the lives of migrant workers recruited to build the stadiums for the World Cup of 2022 in Qatar.
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Nov 4“‘All culture is originally colonial’: Derrida, Algeria, and the Latin Empire”Ingraham 120
Adam Stern, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will discuss a reading of Jacques Derrida’s writing on Algeria, Jewishness, and colonialism.
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Oct 28Cultural Administration in Postcolonial Egypt: The Case of the Mass Culture InstituteThis talk examines everyday cultural administration in Nasser’s Egypt. Based on a wider historical and ethnographic study of the Ministry of Culture, El Khachab argues that low- and mid-ranking bureaucrats working in the cultural sector saw their task as a “mission” (risala) and a “responsibility” (mas’uliyya).
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Oct 21UW Cinematheque Film: DISTANT (UZAK)UW Cinematheque
In search of work in Istanbul, an unemployed country farmer stays with his urbanized photographer cousin in a small one-bedroom apartment. Subtly and believably, tensions begin to mount between the two grown men until there is an inevitable confrontation.
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Oct 14Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of EgyptProfessor Hammad discusses the life and legacy of Layla Murad, one of the most beloved and remembered Arab singing stars in the twentieth century, to analyze politics of sexuality, ethnicity, socio-cultural interaction between Muslims and Jews, and the crucial role popular culture played in constructing an exclusive Arab-Islamic Egyptian identity.
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Sep 30Perceived Discrimination and the Integration Paradox in Stigmatized NeighborhoodsIngraham 120
Residents of “European Banlieues,” or stigmatized neighborhoods in urban peripheries across Europe, are frequent subject targets of discrimination. But little research has systematically examined the attitudes of these neighborhoods’ residents. We fill this gap and ask how much discrimination immigrant residents of the most deprived neighborhoods in Sweden perceive, and whether perceived discrimination matters for their political incorporation.
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Apr 26Palestine as Possibility: Polish Jews and the Yishuv as Fact in the 1930sPyle Center 702 Langdon St Madison, WI 53706
Ken Moss will investigate how Polish Jews previously distant from any version of Zionism, or even hostile to it, were moved to ask about how the fact of a new kind of Jewish community and polity emerging in the Middle East might be relevant to their future – or that of their children.
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Apr 22Frankish Church Façades and the Art of DiplomacyNutritional Sciences Building, #290 1415 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706
A workshop with Prof. Lisa Mahoney (DePaul University)
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Apr 21The Lost Royal Tombs of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem4281 Helen C. White Hall Madison, WI
Professor Lisa Mahoney, DePaul University Thursday, April 21st, 2022 | 5:00–6:30 PM CT | 4281 Helen C. White Hall Public Lecture and Workshop sponsored by the Anonymous Fund, Medieval Studies Program, History Department, Art History Department, Institute for Research in Humanities, Middle East Studies Program, and Center for Religion and Global Citizenry.