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To Travel the World: Journeys with Ibn Battutah - Harvard, MA

2009-04-18T17:50:32.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2009-04-21 16:00:00 PDT
Duration: 7200
Where: 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) proudly presents the Spring 2009 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lectures with Tim Mackintosh-Smith To Travel the World: Journeys with Ibn Battutah Tuesday, April 21 The Kinship of Strangers: Where Ibn Battutah Came From Wednesday, April 22 On the Road: With Ibn Battutah in India Thursday, April 23 Posthumous Journeys: The Later Travels of Ibn Battutah and his Rihlah All lectures are 4pm - 6pm CGIS S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street Lecture guests on Tuesday are invited to join us afterwards for a reception at CMES (38 Kirkland Street, room 102). Kindly note that the reception is a private event only open to lecture attendees. Tim Mackintosh-Smith's books are available at The Globe Corner Bookstore in Harvard Square: 90 Mt. Auburn Street, 617-497-6277 --- About Tim Mackintosh-Smith: Ten years after the first publication of Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith still lives in San'a, in a house lit by alabaster windows and standing on the ruin-mound of the ancient Sabaean city. His forays out of the mountains of Yemen have, however, taken him to many parts of the wider Islamic world between Morocco and China, on the trail of the fourteenth-century traveller Ibn Battutah. In the resulting books (two so far - Travels with a Tangerine and The Hall of a Thousand Columns), he explores the complex and fascinating intersections between present-day Muslim society and its own past. He has also presented a BBC television series on his journeys in search of Ibn Battutah, described variously by critics as 'marvellous, memorable television', 'an almost lyrical experience' and 'splendidly eccentric'. Tim Mackintosh-Smith has translated a number of works on Yemeni history from Arabic into English and vice versa. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. --- Lecture details can be found on the CMES website: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/1273 Questions can be directed to kebrown@fas.harvard.edu -- Coordinator of Events and Alumni Relations Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University 38 Kirkland Street, Room 108 Cambridge, MA 02138 P: 617 495 1036 F: 617 496 8584 http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/

"H.A.R. Gibb Lectures, Spring 2010, May 11-13" - Harvard, MA

2010-04-26T20:28:43.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-05-11 18:00:00 PDT
Duration: 7200
Where: 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: H.A.R. Gibb Lectures, Spring 2010, May 11-13 Date: May 11, 2010 - 6:00pm - May 13, 2010 - 6:00pm Speaker: Prof. Engin Akarli The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) proudly presents the Spring 2010 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lectures on May 11, 12, and 13 with Prof. Engin Akarli, Brown University. Tuesday, May 11, 6pm, What Good is Ottoman Legal History For? A brief review of recent research on Ottoman legal history, the major issues that puzzle researchers, and the potential contribution of this research to Islamic legal studies, on the one hand, and to notions of law in general, on the other Wednesday, May 12, 6pm, Custom as Signifier of Consensus, Commonality, and Right Perceived gaps between legal doctrine and legal practice regarding custom puzzle researchers. Do our sources point to a reasonably predictable interplay of legal norms and practice or to inconsistent capricious pragmatism? The answer has to be complicated but would also depend on our perceptions of law, understanding of Islamic legal tradition and ability to make sense of our sources. Thursday, May 13, 6pm, Religious Differences and Trans-religious Commonalities in the Arcades of 18th-Century Istanbul-in Light of Legal Sources The backbone of official Ottoman legal culture remained Islamic into the 19th century. How did this feature of the regime impact its non-Muslim subjects? The answer would vary according to a researcher’s notion of law, knowledge of Islam (and Islamic law), sense of historical context, and habits of thought. The talk will address these points in light of legal cases involving artisans of the Ottoman capital, half of whose population was non-Muslim. About Prof. Engin Akarli: Engin Deniz Akarli is the Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History and Professor of History at Brown University. He studied at Robert's College (BA, Econ. '68), University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA, History '72), and Princeton University (MA & Ph.D., Near East History, '73 & '76). He taught at Princeton University (1975-76), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (1976-83), Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan (1983-89), and Washington University in St. Louis (1989-1996) before moving to Brown. He was a Research Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1985-86), a NEH Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a research fellow at Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School. His publications include The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 (1993), Belgelerle Tanzimat (1977), Political Participation in Turkey (1974), and articles on tensions of 19th-century Ottoman history and on Ottoman legal history. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Islamic Law and Society (Leiden) and of the Center for Turkish Studies of the Foundation for Science and Arts (Istanbul). ------------ For a map of the area, go here and type '1730 Cambridge Street' in the search field Location: CGIS S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Kristin Brown, kebrown@fas.harvard.edu

Spring 2009 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lectures

2009-04-02T02:19:45.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2009-04-21 16:00:00 PDT
Duration: 7200
Where: 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Contact Name: Kristin Brown Contact Email: kebrown@fas.harvard.edu Location: CGIS S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA Prior to the lectures, Tim will be featured at a Monday, April 20 event at Harvard. ********** The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) proudly presents the Spring 2009 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lectures on April 21, 22, 23 with Tim Mackintosh-Smith, award winning author and travel writer. Tuesday, April 21, 4pm, The Kinship of Strangers: Where Ibn Battutah Came From Wednesday, April 22, 4pm, On the Road: With Ibn Battutah in India Thursday, April 23, 4pm, Posthumous Journeys: The Later Travels of Ibn Battutah and his Rihlah About Tim Mackintosh-Smith: "Mackintosh-Smith has all the assets a travel writer needs: erudition, rather subversive good humour and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complex detail in a few telling lines” Daily Telegraph Tim is an Arabist, traveller and writer. For the past twenty years his home has been the Yemeni capital San'a where he lives on the ruin-mound of the ancient Sabaean city. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Former Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham. Tim's first book, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, won the 1998 Thomas Cook / Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. His next, the best-selling Travels with a Tangerine, retraces the journeys of the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battutah in the old Islamic world. Both works are New York Times Notable Books. Tim has also edited Ibn Battutah's own Travels. His latest book, The Hall of a Thousand Columns, revisits the scenes of Ibn Battutah's Indian adventures and was published in March 2005 (paperback 2006). A sequel, Worlds Beyond the Wind, will trace the Moroccan's wanderings from the Maldives to China, and is due to appear in 2009. Tim has also written the article on Ibn Battutah for the new edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. He has contributed many other articles to publications such as Saudi Aramco World, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Journal. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Meetings with Remarkable Muslims and The Picador Book of Journeys. Tim received his MA from Oxford University in Oriental Studies (Arabic literature and Islamic history).

"Rethinking Arab Women as 'Subjects'" - UCLA, CA

2010-04-26T20:32:29.000Z

When: Fri May 7, 2010 2pm to Fri May 7, 2010 6pm PDT

Where: Faculty Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Rethinking Arab Women as 'Subjects' Journal of Middle East Women's Studies distinguished lecture and reception, Suad Joseph, UC Davis Friday, May 07, 2010 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Faculty Center, California Room UCLA Suad Joseph was born in Lebanon. All of her formal education has been in the US. She completed a BA in Social Science at the State University in New York, Cortland, one year of graduate work in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University. Most of her anthropological field research has focused on her native Lebanon. Her early work investigated the policitization of religious sects in Lebanon leading up to the civil war in 1975, questions of ethnicity and state, local community organization and development. That work led her to consider the impact of women's visiting networks on local and national politics, and the relationships between local communities, community organizations and the state. Evoling from that increasing focus on gender, Joseph developed a long-term research program on the interface of gender, family and state in the Middle East, with a focus on Lebanon, but also carrying out comparative work in Iraq. Central to this research program has been her work theorizing culturally situated notions of "self", "rights", "citizenship" in the context of different political regimes and in the context of the pressures and processes of globalization. She is currently carrying out a long-term research project following a cohort of children in a Lebanese village, observing, as they grow, how they learn their notions of rights, responsibilities, nationality, citizenship; how these notions come to be gendered; and how the notions are transfered from family arenas into political/public arenas. Professor Joseph, one of the pioneers of Middle East Women's Studies, is General Editor of the 6-volume print Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures(Brill 2003-2008) and EWIC OnLine (2009 -). She is Editor of: Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity (1999, Syracuse); and of Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (2000, Syracuse), co-editor of Women and Power in the Middle East (U. Pennsylvia 2001). She has co-edited two volumes in citizenship in Lebanon (Arabic) and authored around 100 journal articles and book chapters. Prof. Joseph is one of the founders of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and has served as Associate Editor of JMEWS since its inaugural issue. Prof. Joseph is President-Elect of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). She founded the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology (which evolved into the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association); the Association for Middle East Women's Studies; the Arab Families Working Group; and the American University of Beirut, American University in Cairo, Lebanese American University, University of California, Davis and Birzeit University Consortium. She is also founding Director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. She has been a faculty at the University of California, Davis since 1976 where she is Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies. Co-sponsored by the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Cost: Free and Open to the Public For more information please contact Johanna Romero Tel: (310) 825-1455 cnes@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Journal of Middle East Womens Studies

"An Appraisal of Civil Society’s Struggle for Democracy in Iran" - UCLA, CA

2010-04-26T20:08:38.000Z

When: Thu Apr 29, 2010 3pm to 4:30pm PDT

Where: 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran Presents a public lecture in English by Shiva Falsafi UCLA An Appraisal of Civil Society’s Struggle for Democracy in Iran Thursday, April 29, 2010, 3:00 PM 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA Shiva Falsafi is a lawyer and lecturer at the UCLA Department of Women’s Studies. Shiva received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and her L.L.M. from Harvard Law School. Her research focuses on the history of social and political movements in Iran and also captures the relationship between multiculturalism and the religion clauses of the American Constitution. She is the author of “Civil Society and Democracy in Japan, Iran, Iraq and Beyond” forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Spring 2010. Cost: Free and open to the public For more information, contact: Johanna Romero, Center for Near Eastern Studies Tel: (310) 825-1455 cnes@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=8019

"Anatomy of Self Deception: Belief, Judgment, and the Iraq War Decision" - Harvard, MA

2010-04-26T20:12:50.000Z

When: Mon May 3, 2010 12:15pm to 2pm PDT

Where: Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman-275, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Anatomy of Self Deception: Belief, Judgment, and the Iraq War Decision For a description of the event, please visit: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/4310/ Brown Bag Lunch Series: International Security Brown Bag Seminar Open to the Public – Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman-275 May 3, 2010 12:15-2:00 p.m. Peter Zimmerman, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Open to the public Contact for more information: susan_lynch@harvard.edu

"The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks" - UCLA, CA

2010-04-26T20:09:59.000Z

When: Mon Apr 26, 2010 3pm to Mon Apr 26, 2010 5pm PDT

Where: 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lecture by Marc David Baer, UC Irvine Monday, April 26, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM 10383 Bunche Hall Whether we call them Ma’aminim (Hebrew, Believers), as they called themselves, or Dönmeler (Turkish, Converts; hereafter Dönme), as others called them, either way, both terms refer to the descendants of Jews who converted to Islam along with their messiah Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi three centuries ago. Shabbatai Tzevi’s story, and that of the first generation of his followers, has been told, but the ethno-religious identity, history, and experience of the descendants of the original Dönme in the modern period remains unexplored. Although many believe conspiracy theories about the Dönme, very few know the real character and history of the group. The aim of this talk is to answer a number of questions. To what extent is it appropriate to refer to these descendants of Jewish converts simply as Jews? If their beliefs and practices placed them outside the Jewish fold, by what means did they maintain their distinction from Jews and Muslims, and why? What role did the group play in late Ottoman and early Turkish republican history? Whether describing conversion from one religious tradition to another, or from a religious way of being to a secular one, how do we know when conversion has occurred? What are the limits to being a Jew, a Muslim, a Turk, or a Greek? Marc David Baer is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His first book, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (2008), won the Albert Hourani Prize from the Middle East Studies Association. Co-sponsored with UCLA History Department, Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies Cost: Free and open to the public For more information, contact: Johanna Romero, Center for Near Eastern Studies Tel: (310) 825-1455 cnes@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

"Hilda's Unanswered Question: What about the Palestinian Refugees?" - Harvard, MA

2010-04-26T20:34:22.000Z

When: Fri May 14, 2010 5pm to 7pm PDT

Where: 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Hilda's Unanswered Question: What about the Palestinian Refugees? Date: May 14, 2010 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm Speaker: Dr. Susan Akram The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is pleased to present the inaugural Spring 2010 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture on Israel/Palestine by Dr. Susan Akram, Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Law Hilda's Unanswered Question: What about the Palestinian Refugees? Susan Akram is Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Law, teaching immigration law, comparative refugee law, and international human rights law, and supervising students handling refugee and asylum cases in BU's asylum and human rights program. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (B.A), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC (JD), and the Institut International des Droits del 'Homme, Strasbourg, France. Before joining the faculty at BUSL in 1993, Susan Akram was executive director of Boston's Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project and before that, directing attorney of the immigration project at the public interest law firm of Public Counsel in Los Angeles. She is a past Fulbright Senior Scholar in Palestine, teaching at Al-Quds University/Palestine School of Law in East Jerusalem, and researching on durable solutions for Palestinian refugees. She was also interim director of the program for resettling Iraqi refugees from the camps in Saudi Arabia after the First Gulf War. She has spoken and published widely in the fields of immigration law, refugee law and human rights. For an interactive map: http://map.harvard.edu/ (type '12 Quincy Street' in the search field) Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge Contact: Kristin Brown, kebrown@fas.harvard.edu

"Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between Arabs and Israelis (1956-1978) " - Harvard, MA

2010-04-26T20:26:06.000Z

When: Fri May 7, 2010 12pm to 2pm PDT

Where: 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between Arabs and Israelis (1956-1978) Date: May 7, 2010 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm Speaker: Kai Bird __________________________________________ The Middle East Forum presents Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between Arabs and Israelis (1956-1978) Kai Bird Author and Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian for "The American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" __________________________________________ Location: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street, room 102 Co-Sponsors: CMES and the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government Contact: Sara Roy, sroy@fas.harvard.edu As a Title VI National Resource Center, CMES is partially funding this program with U.S. Department of Education grant funds.

"Track I Actors and Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq" - Tufts, MA

2010-03-14T15:33:35.000Z

When: Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:30pm to 7:30pm PDT

Where: 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: FLETCHER SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT Chair: Nadim N. Rouhana Eileen BabbittProfessor of International Conflict Management Practice The Fletcher School "Track I Actors and Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq" Monday, March 15, 2010, 5:30 p.m. Cabot 205 The Fletcher School, Tufts University 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155 Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice and Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her research interests include identity-based conflicts; coexistence and trust-building in the aftermath of civil war; and the interface between human rights concerns and peacebuilding. Her practice as a facilitator and trainer has included work in the Middle East, the Balkans, and with U.S. government agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations, and international and local NGOs. Before joining the Fletcher faculty, Professor Babbitt was Director of Education and Training at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. and Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Professor Babbitt’s latest publications include the forthcoming article, “The Evolution of Internaional Conflict Resolution: From Cold War to Peacebuilding.” Negotiation Journal, 25th Anniversary Issue, and Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Northen Ireland. Co-edited with Ellen Lutz and published by Syracuse University Press. Dr. Babbitt holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from MIT. This event is open to the public.

"Persian Cheese and Arab Lizard: Food and Propaganda in Iran" - UCLA, MA

2010-03-14T15:38:52.000Z

When: Mon Mar 29, 2010 2pm to Mon Mar 29, 2010 5pm PDT

Where: 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Persian Cheese and Arab Lizard: Food and Propaganda in Iran A lecture by Touraj Daryaee, UC Irvine; with Afshin Marashi, CSU Sacramento and Nikki Keddie, UCLA as commentators Monday, March 29, 2010 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM 10383 Bunche Hall UCLA Touraj Daryaee is the Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Daryaee's research has focused on ancient and early medieval history of Iran, specifically the Sasanian Empire. He has worked on Middle Persian literature, editing and translating several texts with commentary on geography, dinner speech, chess and backgammon. He is also interested in the history of Zoroastrianism in Late Antiquity and its encounter with Islam. He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies as well as the electronic journal, Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History and the director of Sasanika: Late Antique Near East Project. He most recent book is Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, IB Tauris, 2009 and the forthcoming edited work, The Oxford History of Iran, Oxford University Press, 2010. Afshin Marashi is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. He received his PhD (History) from UCLA in 2003 and his BA (Political Science) from UC-Berkeley in 1992. Professor Marashi specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of modern Iran and the comparative study of nationalism. His book, Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power and the State, 1870-1940 was published by the University of Washington Press in 2008. Cost: Free and Open to the Public How to Park at UCLA For more information please contact Mona Ramezani, Center for Near Eastern Studies Tel: (310) 825-1181 cnes@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

"The European Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood: myth or reality?" - Harvard, MA

2010-03-14T15:17:42.000Z

When: Tue Mar 23, 2010 6pm to 8pm PDT

Who: aasrc.org@gmail.com
Where: 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Islam in the West Graduate Student Workshop Spring 2010 Schedule Center for Middle Eastern Studies The IIW graduate workshop is sponsored by: The Center for European Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Islamic Legal Studies Program, and the Humanities Center http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/seminars/sle/islam For more information, contact: Helen Connolly hconnolly@hds.harvard.edu Tuesday March 23, 2010: Lorenzo Vidino, Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government: "The European Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood: myth or reality?" Location: 6:00-8:00 pm, room 208, CMES 38 Kirkland Street. Please RSVP to hconnolly@hds.harvard.edu.

"Islamic Finance: A Comparative Study of Regulation" - Harvard, MA

2010-03-14T15:29:58.000Z

When: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4pm to Mon Mar 22, 2010 6pm PDT

Where: Pound Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: The ISLAMIC LEGAL STUDIES PROGRAM, Harvard Law School, presents The Seventh Lecture of the 2009–2010 ILSP Lecture Series Islamic Finance: A Comparative Study of Regulation by Jiyoung Yang 2009-2010 ILSP Visiting Fellow, and Associate Deputy Director, Financial Supervisory Service, South Korea Monday, March 22 4:00-6:00 pm, followed by refreshments Harvard Law School campus, Pound Hall 335 For more information, call ILSP at 617-496-3941 or email ilsp@law.harvard.edu

"Pre-Positional Conjunctions: Sexuality and/in Islam" - Harvard, MA

2010-03-14T15:26:15.000Z

When: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:30pm to 8:30pm PDT

Where: Pound Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: The HLS Middle East Law Students Association and HLS Lambda Present: Pre-Positional Conjunctions: Sexuality and/in Islam a talk by Joseph Massad, Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University Professor Massad will present a critique of the literature that posits the conjunction of sexuality and/in Islam and an analysis of the recent quest in the Western academy to establish a field to be known as “Queer Middle East Studies.” Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7:00 pm John Chipman Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Dinner will be served at 6:30pm. We hope to see you there! Please contact Naira Der Kiureghian (nderkiureghian@jd11.law.harvard.edu) with questions. Co-sponsored by: Harvard Arab Alumni Association Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School Alliance for Justice in the Middle East at Harvard University

"Prospects for Peace: The Israeli Perspective" - Harvard, MA

2010-03-14T15:31:50.000Z

When: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3pm to Thu Mar 25, 2010 5pm PDT

Where: 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy, and Herbert C. Kelman, Co-chairs Presents NADAV TAMIR Consul General of Israel to New England at the Consulate General of Israel in Boston On Prospects for Peace: The Israeli Perspective Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:00–5:00 p.m.** Please note special time The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 1737 Cambridge Street Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262) Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is located at 1737 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138. For more information about this event, please contact Elizabeth Lawler at 617-495-3816 or elawler@wcfia.harvard.edu Information on upcoming sessions is available on our website: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/middle_east All Middle East Seminar sessions are off the record and not for attribution

"Islam in Western Contexts: Muslim Political Participation in the US." - Harvard, MA

2010-03-14T15:20:40.000Z

When: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6pm to 8pm PDT

Where: 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Islam in the West Graduate Student Workshop Spring 2010 Schedule Center for Middle Eastern Studies The IIW graduate workshop is sponsored by: The Center for European Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Islamic Legal Studies Program, and the Humanities Center http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/seminars/sle/islam For more information, contact: Helen Connolly hconnolly@hds.harvard.edu Tuesday March 23, 2010: Lorenzo Vidino, Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government: "The European Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood: myth or reality?" Location: 6:00-8:00 pm, room 208, CMES 38 Kirkland Street. Please RSVP to hconnolly@hds.harvard.edu. --------------------------------------------------- Tuesday April 13, 2010: Dr. Karam Dana, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies: "Islam in Western Contexts: Muslim Political Participation in the US." Location: 6:00-8:00 pm, room 208, CMES 38 Kirkland Street.

“Fugitive Mullahs & Runaway Fanatics”: Indian Muslims in British-Ottoman Imperial Politics - Harvard, MA

2010-03-14T15:35:01.000Z

When: Wed Mar 24, 2010 12pm to 2pm PDT

Where: 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University proudly presents: The Spring 2010 Director’s Series ***************************************************************************** Wednesday, March 24th “Fugitive Mullahs & Runaway Fanatics”: Indian Muslims in British-Ottoman Imperial Politics Dr. Seema Alavi William Bentinck-Smith Fellow, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard Lecture takes place from 12:30pm-2pm at CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, room 102 Light lunch begins at 12:00pm For a calendar of CMES events go to: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/

"Situating Bangladesh in the Environmental History of Modern South Asia" - Tufts, MA

2010-03-14T15:28:24.000Z

When: Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:30pm to 7:30pm PDT

Where: 100 Walker Street, Cambridge, MA‎
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please join us for the following lecture presented by the Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies. ***** Iftehkar Iqbal, Assistant Professor of History, Dhaka University. "Situating Bangladesh in the Environmental History of Modern South Asia" March 16,2010 Cabot 206, 5:30pm-7:30pm ***** Dr Iftekhar Iqbal is a historian of modern South Asia with particular interest in Bangladesh. He works in the fields of ecological history and the history of ideas, social changes and pedagogy. He received his BA (Hons) and MA at Dhaka University and MPhil and PhD at Cambridge. He has held a British Academy-ESRC visiting fellowship at King's College London and a research fellowship at the Aga Khan University, London. His forthcoming book, The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State and Social Change demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine in colonial Bengal could be understood more satisfactorily from an environmental perspective as well as the widely debated issues of state?s coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness. Dr Iqbal is a Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society, an Executive Member of the Association of South Asian Environmental Historians and a member of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. Co-sponsor: Tufts History Department Directions: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/directions/Default.asp Contact: Shahla Hussain, Shahla.Hussain@tufts.edu 617.627.3558 http://ase.tufts.edu/southasian/events.asp ;

"Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict" - Harvard, MA

2010-02-22T04:28:53.000Z

When: Tue Feb 23, 2010 4pm to 6pm PST

Where: 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University Roger Owen and Sara Roy, co-chairs __________________________________________ Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Victor Kattan Fellow, Center for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Author, "From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1891-1949" Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:00 – 6:00 PM Center for Middle Eastern Studies 38 Kirkland Street, room 102

"Architectural Masterpieces of the Deccan Sultanates: Gulbarga, Bidar and Bijapur" - Harvard, MA

2010-02-22T04:33:06.000Z

When: Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:30pm to 6:30pm PST

Where: 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 5:30-6:30PM Elizabeth Schotten Merklinger, Independent Scholar, former Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Fellow "Architectural Masterpieces of the Deccan Sultanates: Gulbarga, Bidar and Bijapur" Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Rm. 318 Harvard University 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Lecture is free and open to the public. For further information, please call 617-495-2355 or e-mail agakhan@fas.harvard.edu

"War, Citizenship and Memory in Iraq" - UCLA, CA

2010-01-31T00:12:15.000Z

When: Tue Feb 9, 2010 3pm to Tue Feb 9, 2010 5pm PST

Where: 10383 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM 10383 Bunche Hall UCLA Professor Khoury received her Ph.D. in Middle East history from Georgetown University. Before joining the GW history department in 1991, she taught at Georgetown University and was the recipient of a Social Science Research Council grant for two consecutive years. More recently, Professor Khoury has received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment of the Humanities. Professor Khoury offers courses in Islamic and modern Middle Eastern history. She studies the political culture of the Arab world during the Ottoman period. Her principal publications include: "Political Relations between State and Urban Society: 1750-1850", in Peter Sluglett, ed., Urban Social History in the Middle East (Westview Press, 2001); State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire (1997) (winner of two book prizes in 1998); and, "Slippers at the Entrance or Behind Closed Doors: Domestic and Public Space for Mosuli Women," in Madeline Zilfi, ed., Women in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (1996). Cost: Free and open to the public How to Park at UCLA For more information please contact Amy Bruinooge, Center for Near Eastern Studies Tel: (310) 825-1455 cnes@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies

"Urban Informality and the Return of the Sacred: Reflections on Islam and Late Capitalism" - UC Berkeley, CA

2010-01-31T00:33:59.000Z

When: Thu Feb 4, 2010 5pm to 6:30pm PST

Where: Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Urban Informality and the Return of the Sacred: Reflections on Islam and Late Capitalism Lecture | February 4 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 340 Sultan Conference Room Speaker: Professor Heba Raouf, Department of Political Science, Cairo University Sponsor: Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Event Contact: cmes@berkeley.edu, 510-642-8208

"Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Masculinities" - UCLA, CA

2010-01-30T00:53:32.000Z

When: Mon Feb 1, 2010 3pm to Mon Feb 1, 2010 5pm PST

Where: 352 Haines Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Masculinities A lecture by Marcia Inhorn, Yale Univeristy Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Masculinities Monday, February 01, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM 352 Haines Hall UCLA Marcia C. Inhorn (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1991; MPH, University of California, Berkeley, 1988) is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Chair of the Coucil on Middle East Studies in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Inhorn’s research interests revolve around science and technology studies (STS), gender and feminist theory (including masculinity studies), religion and bioethics, globalization and global health, cultures of biomedicine and ethnomedicine, stigma and human suffering. As a Middle Eastern scholar, Inhorn has been a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. With research support from Fulbright-Hays and the National Science Foundation, she has been at work on two related research projects, “Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of New Reproductive Technologies” and “Globalization and Reproductive Tourism in the Arab World.” Currently, she is writing a book entitled Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Modern Masculinities, which serves as an ethnographic challenge to received wisdoms and neo-orientalist stereotypes in a post-9/11 world. Inhorn is the founding editor of JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women's Studies), the professional journal of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (Middle East Studies Association); associate editor of Global Public Health; and co-editor for the Berghahn Book series on "Fertility, Sexuality, and Reproduction:"

"Cloth and Carpet in Early Inner Asia" - Harvard, MA

2010-01-29T19:31:43.000Z

When: Wed Feb 3, 2010 1pm to 2pm PST

Where: 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies invites you to a Lunchtime Lecture Irene Good Harvard University will speak on Cloth and Carpet in Early Inner Asia at The CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street On the Second Floor, in Seminar Room S250 on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. You may bring your own lunch to the Seminar Room. Snacks will be provided. Room opens at 12:30, Presentation begins at 1 p.m. If you have any questions you may contact us at iaas@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-3777.

"One Hundred Years of Oil Income and the Iranian Economy: A Blessing or a Curse" - UCLA, CA

2010-01-31T00:08:13.000Z

When: Mon Feb 8, 2010 3pm to Mon Feb 8, 2010 5pm PST

Where: 10367 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM 10367 Bunche Hall UCLA Professor M Hashem Pesaran was born in Shiraz, Fars, Iran. He received his BSc in Economics at the University of Salford (England) and his PhD in Economics at Cambridge University. Currently, Dr Pesaran is Professor of Economics at Cambridge University (http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/pesaran/) and a Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has over 160 publications in leading scientific journals in the areas of econometrics, empirical macroeconomics and the Iranian economy, and is an expert in the economics of oil and the Middle East. He is the author of The Limits to Rational Expectations (Blackwell), and co-author of several books, Dynamic Regression: Theory and Algorithms (with Lucy Slater), Keynes' Economics: Methodological Issues, (ed. with Tony Lawson), Disaggregation in Economic Modelling (ed. with Terry Barker), Non-linear Dynamics, Chaos and Econometrics (JW, ed. with Simon Potter), Blackwell's Handbook of Applied Econometrics: Volume I, Macroeconomics (ed. with Mike Wickens), and Volume II, Microeconomics (ed. with Peter Schmidt), Energy Demand in Asian Developing Economies (with Ron Smith and Taka Akiyama, OUP), Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variables: A Volume in Honour of G S Maddala (ed. with Cheng Hsiao, Kajal Lahiri and Lung-Fei Lee, CUP), Global and National Macroenonometric Modelling: A Long Run Structural Approach (with Garratt, Lee, and Shin, OUP, 2006), Explaining Growth in the Middle East (North-Holland, 2007). Cost: Free and open to the public How to Park at UCLA For more information please contact Amy Bruinooge Tel: (310) 825-1455 cnes@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events