Past Events
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Apr 16Categorizing Muslims: Tactics of Intersubjectivity in a Progressive Muslim Community of PracticeIngraham 206
Drawing on data from a multi-sited linguistic ethnography of progressive Muslims, Katrina Daly Thompson explores how participants labeled themselves and others through talk-in-interaction and in online discussions.
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Apr 122018 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being
UW-Madison Pyle Center
The annual Wisconsin Women’s and Gender Studies Conference and 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-Being presents “Our Bodies, Our Earth: Voice, Violence, and Peacemaking.” The event brings together prominent global leaders, national and international scholars, practitioners, students, artists and community members to share information and experiences and build ongoing networks around timely challenges related to women and …
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Apr 11Africa at Noon: “Portrait of Rural Egyptian Women: Peaceful Voices from Siwa Oasis, Upper Egypt and Nubia”Ingraham 206
Note: This is an event by the UW–Madison African Studies Program. Presenter: Manal Kabesh The rural women in the highly traditional societies of the Siwa oasis, Upper Egypt, and Nubia live according to centuries-old traditions. However, veiling and other such traditions do not push women to the sidelines in these communities; instead,rural women play an active …
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Apr 2The Palestinianization of American Jewish Anti-Zionism, 1942-1977Ingraham 206
Geoffrey Levin is a PhD candidate in Hebrew & Judaic Studies and History at New York University. His dissertation, titled “Another Nation: Israel, American Jews, and Palestinian Rights, 1949-1977,” connects the changing ways in which American Jews reacted to Palestinian rights claims with broader shifts in Israeli policy, American society, and global politics.
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Mar 19Rebuilding Islamic Jerusalem, ca 1035Ingraham 206
Focusing on the restorations of the Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, she argues for a productive outcome to the cataclysmic destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by the “mad” caliph, al-Hakim.
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Mar 5An Assessment of Democracy in Turkey from A Liberal PerspectiveIngraham 206
The presentation will consist of an analysis of the current state of democracy in Turkey from the perspective of liberal democratic values such as the principle of rule of law and limited government.
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Feb 19MES Lecture Series: Philip HollanderIngraham 206
Through analysis of Hanokh Bartov’s 1962 short story “Around the Ring Incident,” he demonstrates Israeli postmodernist fiction’s development decades before post-Zionism’s rise and point to the story as an example of constructive social criticism at home within Israeli national culture.
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Feb 17Film: “The Insult” (L’insulte)UW Cinematheque 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706
With complex relationships and surprising turns, Lebanese filmmaker Doueiri’s gripping, thought-provoking courtroom drama offers an intricate portrait of the divisions that haunt even routine interactions in this highly charged setting.
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Feb 172nd Wisconsin Iranian Film FestivalThe Marquee Cinema Union South, 1308 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI 53706 United States
The 2nd Wisconsin Iranian Film Festival (WIFF) commits to contribute to learnings about cultural diversity and promote dialogue between cultures by bringing Iranian films, from classics to contemporary works, to the campus.
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Feb 16The ‘mal d’archives’ and Tunisian Women Revolutionary Art3401 Sterling Hall
Nevine El Nossery will mainly focus on Tunisian polyvalent artist Héla Ammar who explores art as a receptacle for defiant counter-archive, questioning concepts such as authenticity, authority, and historicity, and opening up horizons for civic imaginations to emerge within a network of social relations that are not precluded by the diktats of politics or institutions.