September 2022
Unsettled: How MENA Americans are Seen and See Themselves
In this talk, Professor Neda Maghbouleh (University of Toronto) summarizes ten years of research that she and her collaborators have undertaken to understand MENA racial and ethnic identities as multidimensional and intersectional.
Find out more »A Lecture by Nazita Lajevardi
Nazita Lajevardi is a political scientist and attorney at Michigan State University. Her work focuses mainly on issues related to race and ethnic politics, political behavior, voting rights, and immigration.
Find out more »October 2022
A Lecture by Hanan Hammad
Hanan Hammad, from Texas Christian University, is a social and cultural historian of modern Middle East. Her work focuses on gender, sexuality, working classes, and popular culture.
Find out more »November 2022
“‘All culture is originally colonial’: Derrida, Algeria, and the Latin Empire”
Adam Stern, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will discuss a reading of Jacques Derrida’s writing on Algeria, Jewishness, and colonialism.
Find out more »December 2022
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
Rosie Bsheer of Harvard University explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca.
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