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September 2021
Time Will Be the Judge: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and the Competing Factions of 1930s Egypt
Join us for the fall lecture series, featuring Adam Spanos. Registration link coming soon. During the 1930s, Egyptians competed to define the appropriate historical framework in which to situate the country’s identity. As the terms…
Find out more »October 2021
Fall Lecture Series with Stéphane Lacroix (TBA)
Registration link and additional information coming soon. Join us for the fall lecture series, featuring Stéphane Lacroix.
Find out more »How to Study Humanism and the Representations of Islam? A Dispatch from the Fronts of Today’s French ‘Culture Wars’
Join the UW French House for a guest lecture from Professor Tristan Vigliano (University Aix-Marselle) on Friday, October 22 at 4pm. French House 633 N Frances Street Madison, WI 53703
Find out more »Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Registration link coming soon. Based on Sophia's book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine, this talk offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it begins with the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic…
Find out more »November 2021
Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Delicious Way to Explore Arab Culture
Registration link and additional details coming soon. Karim Alrawi has written for stage, radio and television and is the author of two novels and three children's books. His stage plays have been produced across the…
Find out more »Gendering Protest and Revolutionary Moments: the significance of body politics in the Middle East
Registration link and additional details coming soon. Nadje Al-Ali is Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown, where she is also Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and…
Find out more »December 2021
Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of Intersubjectivity
Registration link and additional details coming soon. Katrina Daly Thompson is Professor of African Cultural Studies at UW-Madison, with affiliations in MESP, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and several other programs. Her research concerns language, gender, and…
Find out more »MESP Lecture Series
Sep
27
Time Will Be the Judge: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and the Competing Factions of 1930s Egypt
September 27 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Oct
11
Fall Lecture Series with Stéphane Lacroix (TBA)
October 11 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Oct
25
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
October 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Nov
08
Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Delicious Way to Explore Arab Culture
November 8 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Nov
22
Gendering Protest and Revolutionary Moments: the significance of body politics in the Middle East
November 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Dec
06
Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of Intersubjectivity
December 6 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Time Will Be the Judge: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and the Competing Factions of 1930s Egypt
Fall Lecture Series with Stéphane Lacroix (TBA)
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Delicious Way to Explore Arab Culture
Gendering Protest and Revolutionary Moments: the significance of body politics in the Middle East
Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of Intersubjectivity