Past Events
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Oct 24The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to JusticeConrad A. Elvehjem Building L150
The lecture will cover art history, histories of genocide, cultural heritage, and the questions of the continuity of the medieval and the modern intersect in the biography of a medieval Armenian Gospels manuscript.
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Oct 6“Sharia and the American Muslim Voter. Why Islamophobia Gets It All WrongFitchburg Public Library
Public Lecture by Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes (Law School, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prof. Quraishi-Landes specializes in comparative Islamic and US constitutional law. She is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript, “Islamic reconstitutionalism” in which she proposes a new model of Islamic constitutionalism for today’s Muslim-majority countries. …
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Oct 6“Sharia and the American Muslim Voter.” Public lecture by Prof. Asifa Quraishi-LandesFitchburg Public Library
“Sharia and the American Muslim Voter. Why Islamophobia Gets It All Wrong? Fitchburg Public Library, October 6, 2019 2:00-4:00 pm Public Lecture by Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes (Law School, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prof. Quraishi-Landes specializes in comparative Islamic and US constitutional law. She is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. Currently, she is working …
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Apr 2271 Years Without a Country – Nakba Tour 2019Red Gym 716 Langdon St. Madison, WI 53706 United States
Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to hear Mariam’s eye-witness story and learn the true story of the event that Palestinians call the Nakba (catastrophe). She will be joined by 24-year-old Palestinian journalist and translator Amena ElAskhar, herself the great-granddaughter of Nakba survivors.
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Apr 2271 Years Without a Country – Nakba Tour 2019Red Gym
Mariam Fathalla was just 18 years old in 1948 when her 4,000 year old village was leveled and she was forced to flee Palestine along with hundreds of thousands of others to make way for the establishment of the State of Israel. For the past 71 years she has lived in crowded, makeshift refugee camps in Lebanon. …
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Apr 12MESA Webinar: Academic Freedom in Middle East StudiesOnline via Zoom
Through our Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF), MESA has been very active in responding to incidents that threaten academic freedom. For this webinar, we will be joined by three members representing both CAF wings, North America and the Middle East and North Africa.
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Apr 12MESA Webinar: Academic Freedom in Middle East StudiesThis year MESA is launching a webinar series for its student members. This series will bring together faculty and students to address and discuss critical issues most relevant to students.
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Apr 8A Jewish history of Orientalism and its effect on hierarchies in IsraelIngraham 206
Aziza Khazzoom reviews her empirical work to specify the effects of westernization projects on Israeli subjectivity, hierarchies, and past and potential relationship to its Middle Eastern environment.
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Apr 6Intersections of FaithThrough a series of workshops, panels, and speakers, conference participants will learn the tools of interfaith leadership and explore the way identity shapes and complicates interfaith dialogue and activism. Because interfaith dialogue brings our identities into close contact with the identities of others, thinking intersectionally is crucial.
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Mar 27MENA Heritage Month Keynote: Noor AliMSC Lounge, Armory and Gymnasium (Red Gym)
Join the Middle Eastern North African Heritage Month Planning Committee for a keynote lecture by Noor Ali on the ways MENA identities are influenced by location, race, and culture.