Upcoming Events

Feb

23

Fluid Frontiers February 23, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Ingraham 206

Seçil Binboğa (University of Minnesota) will discuss how US influence expanded through Turkey’s airspace between 1951 and 1954, crossing borders to counter the spread of communism.

Feb

27

Gaza and the US Academy: Scholasticide and Educational Resilience in Palestine February 27, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108

Abdel Razzaq Takriti (Rice University) is a historian of anticolonialism, revolutions, intellectual and political currents, and state formation in the modern Arab world

Mar

02

America's Middle East March 2, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Ingraham 206

Marc Lynch (George Washington University) details the United States’ disastrously failed approach to the post–Cold War Middle East, where aspirations for US leadership and a calm region have only produced war, instability and humanitarian catastrophe.

Mar

16

Jāl Mythmaking: Embodied Indigeneity in the Marshlands and Coasts of the Persian/Arabian Gulf March 16, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Ingraham 206

Hanan Al-Alawi (UW-Madison) will explore how the marshland inhabitants of Iraq and coastal communities of southern Iran reimagine Indigeneity through mythmaking practices and embodied interactions with land and water.

Apr

15

Managing Byzantine Heritage in the Modern World: The Development of Byzantine Studies in Turkey April 15, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities
via Zoom

Professor Durak will discuss how Byzantine studies in Turkey have developed from the late Ottoman era to today, focusing on the roles of state and non-state actors, as well as Turkish and foreign scholars.