Past Events
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Feb 22A Gordian Knot in the Ottoman East: Kurdish Nobility, the Ottoman State, and the Question of Fiscal Autonomy in the Long Nineteenth CenturyThis talk discusses the making and the eventual dissolution of the Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman realm with a specific focus on land ownership and its transformation during the Ottoman reform era of Tanzimat in the nineteenth century occupation.
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Feb 17International Studies Careers: Global SecurityOnline via Zoom
Join us for an International Studies career event designed to support you in developing your career path in international fields. Our theme will be Global Security
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Feb 2Using Persepolis to Teach About the Middle EastOnline via Zoom
Join us for our online February Film Club event with Professor Roozbeh Shirazi from the University of Minnesota, who will present about the film and graphic novel Persepolis and its use in the classroom. Professor Roozbeh Shirazi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development and one of the co-authors of Rethinking the region: …
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Feb 2Using Persepolis to Teach About the Middle EastOnline via Zoom
Join us for our online February Film Club event with Professor Roozbeh Shirazi from the University of Minnesota, who will present about the film and graphic novel Persepolis and its use in the classroom.
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Feb 1Mystical Patriotism: Palestine and the Politics of National DressThe production of the “virtual” nation of Palestine in film is associated with fabric artifacts, such as rugs and dresses, since the inception of Palestinian fiction cinema, or at least since the first international recognition of that cinema, thanks to Michel Khleifi’s Wedding in Galilee. These serve as metonymies of Palestinian-ness, reminiscent of paradise lost and reminders of a Palestinian cultural identity struggling against oblivion and imperialist cultural erasure.
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Nov 30Biblicist Bias in Qur’anic Studies from the Middle Ages to the PresentThis presentation proposes models from within the Christian and Muslim traditions that can pave the way towards a break from Biblicist tropes towards an interfaith understanding based on the rich exegetical traditions of both faiths.
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Oct 19IRIS INTERNATIONAL BOOK GROUP: The 2011 Arab Spring, w/Nevine El NosseryOnline via Zoom
Prior to the meeting, we will read “Revolution Is My Name: An Egyptian Woman’s Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir.”
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Oct 19IRIS INTERNATIONAL BOOK GROUP: The 2011 Arab Spring, w/Nevine El NosseryPlease join UW-Madison’s Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) and the Middle East Studies Program for the next meeting of the IRIS international book group.
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Oct 12Embodying GeopoliticsBased on over a hundred extensive personal narratives from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Embodying Geopolitics traces women’s activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings, arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors.
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Sep 14Arab Women’s Shifting Identities, Ongoing Activism(s) and Parallel StrugglesOnline via Zoom
Dr. Sahar Khamis of the University of Maryland discusses her co-edited book "Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions" with Professor Marwa Shalaby.