Past Events
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Feb 28The Ottoman Transition to Print: Technology, Aesthetics, and Textual AdministrationBuilding upon my book, "Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design" (2017, Harvard University Press), this talk explores Ottoman print adoption in comparative perspective.
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Feb 23When Comics Dismantle Taboos in MoroccoOnline via Zoom
Professor El Nossery first looks at how art has become more and more a receptacle of “artivism” (combining art and activism). Second, she examines the comic book’s provocative nature, both in its form and content, which challenges the genre’s conventions.
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Feb 7Moral Matter: Property, Piety, and the Politics of Repair in Protectorate-Era CasablancaOnline via Zoom
This talk will consider how urban activists in 1930s Casablanca linked morality to materiality through critiques that politicized rent and repair under colonial rule. In the process, they articulated a vision for a more just distribution of urban resources that would remain a powerful pole for anti-colonial movements in the country.
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Jan 15Spring 2022 Workshop: (Virtual) Empowering Educators to Teach on Genocidevirtual
This event will offer participants the chance to hear presentations by top experts and acquire free book sets and other practical materials for teaching on the subject of genocide and five specific cases: the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Argentina, and the Uyghurs in China.
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Dec 6Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of IntersubjectivityKatrina Daly Thompson takes a queer anthropological approach to entangled queer-Jewish-Muslim identities and relationships, first in the existing literature and then examining how two contemporary individuals involved in queer-inclusive Muslim groups navigate their hyphenated religious identities, practices, and heritages.
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Dec 3Chess of The Wind – Iranian Movie Screening at UW Cinematheque4070 Vilas Hall
In an opulent, candlelit mansion, a wealthy family schemes against one another in pursuit of the remains of their inheritance. A haunting depiction of crumbling aristocracy much more redolent of Visconti than Kiarostami, Chess of the Wind is an essential addition to the canon of Iranian art cinema (MK).
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Nov 22Gendering Protest and Revolutionary Moments: the significance of body politics in the Middle EastThis talk will address gender as a central analytical concept in understanding contemporary processes and developments in the Middle East, and ask what feminist scholarship has contributed to our understanding of developments in the region.
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Nov 20First Graders – Iranian Movie Screening at UW Cinematheque4070 Vilas Hall
Often overlooked in the shadow of the more widely-shown Homework (1989), First Graders is the first of Kiarostami’s two documentary features about education.
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Nov 18Social Justice: Writing For, Writing BackIn this talk Randa Abdel Fattah will walk us through how she has come to understand social justice from a local, individualized struggle to a global solidarity movement and what inspired her to write The Lines We Cross.
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Nov 17How to Highlight International Experiences on a ResumeIn celebration of International Education Week, join us for a Career Workshop to practice articulating skills on your resume.