Past Events
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Mar 18Siege Creep: Waste, Airbnb, and Speculation between Israel/Palestine and AthensOnline via Zoom
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College) draws on long term fieldwork for two book projects, one based in Palestine and the other based in Greece, to make the case for thinking about the strategies people use to mitigate besieging circumstances through questions about infrastructure.
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Feb 26Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in EgyptOnline via Zoom
Jessica Barnes, associate professor at the University of South Carolina, explores the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat.
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Feb 14War, Environment, and Infrastructure: Lessons From Middle East and North African ConflictsJeannie Sowers
Ingraham 206 Join Here for the Livestream!
Jeannie Sowers's research explores political and environmental change in the Middle East and North Africa, with a recent focus on protracted conflicts and environmental infrastructures.
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Dec 18Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt”Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716 Join us!
We will introduce basic Arabic words, a display of Egyptian artifacts, create an art project based on the book, and sample Egyptian cuisine!
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Dec 7Rethinking Commemoration: Legacies of 1923 Exchange in the Civilizationist PresentPyle Center, Room 226, 702 Langdon Street
Centennial of the 1923 exchange between Muslims in Greece and the Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. This talk will address the legacies of this exchange in the contemporary world context and revisit the implications of "commemoration" in the "civilizationist" present.
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Dec 4Dreams and Displacement in AfghanistanOnline Register Here!
Join investigative reporter and Pulitzer Center grantee May Jeong for a discussion of her experiences reporting from Afghanistan.
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Dec 2International Children’s Literature Celebration: Folk and FairytalesMadison Concourse Hotel, 1 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53703 Join us!
A workshop for educators, librarians, students and children’s literature enthusiasts. The day long event will feature three award-winning authors and experts from UW-Madison.
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Nov 29A Panel Discussion: Conflict in Israel-PalestineOnline via Zoom Join us!
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 • 6 pm
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Nov 27Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt”
Goodman South Library, 2222 S Park St., Madison, WI 53713 Join Us!
We will introduce basic Arabic words, a display of Egyptian artifacts, create an art project based on the book, and sample Egyptian cuisine!
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Nov 6Climate Change and the Future of the City in Contemporary Arabic Dystopian FictionIngraham 206
This talk analyses the representation of the climate crisis and urban imaginaries in post-2011 Arabic science-fiction (SF), focusing on examples from Egypt and Iraq.