Events
Upcoming and Current Events
Upcoming Events in Middle East/South Asia Studies
2016 South Asia by the Bay Graduate Student Conference
UCD, Student Conference
Dr. Parama Roy
Alimentary Tracts: Food, Filth, and Anglo-Indian Flesh in 1857
Hamid Dabashi
Amir Naderi and Ramin Bahrani: Two generations of Iranian Filmmakers in New York
Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Arab-Israeli Peace and Dealing with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Issues: An Egyptian Perspective
NABIL FAHMY, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States
Connecting Students from Arabic-Speaking Countries with U.S. Society through Homestay Experiences
NAFSA Collaborative Training Grant
STEVEN SALAITA, Assistant Professor, English, Virginia Tech
Curricular Activism and Academic Freedom Representations of Arabs and Muslims in Print and Internet Media
Melanie Michailidis, Fellow National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Empty Graves: The Tomb Towers of Northern Iran
Lalitha Gopalan
Movement in Student Films
MICHAEL SHAPIRO, University of Washington
Reading Hindi Poetry: Some Basic Principles
NIVEDITA MENON, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
Rethinking the Nation as Ethical Horizon
Rights Talk and Rights Work in the Middle East and South Asia
PROGRAM Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:30-7:00pm Dinner 7:00-8:00pm Welcome: Steven Sheffrin, Dean, Division of Social Sciences, UC Davis Suad Joseph, Middle East/South Asia Studies, UC Davis Chair: Kevin Johnson, School of Law, UC Davis "The Power of Rights and the Rights of Power" Speaker: Richard Falk, Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Friday, February 29, 2008 8:30-9:00am Registration and breakfast 9:00-10:00am Chair: Gayatri Gopinath, Women & Gender Studies, UC Davis "Sexuality and Rights in Translation" Speaker: Joseph Massad, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University 10:00-11:00am Chair: David Simpson, English, UC Davis "The Missing Homeland Of Edward Said: Person and Place in Globalization" Speaker: Aamir Mufti, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles 11:00-11:30am Coffee break 11:30-12:30pm Chair: Carolyn de la Pena, Director, Davis Humanities Institute "The Politics Of The Future" Speaker: Martina Rieker, Director, Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, American University in Cairo 12:30-2:00pm Lunch, University Club Lounge 2:00-3:00pm Chair: Elizabeth Constable, French and Italian, UC Davis "The Crisis of the Rights-bearing Agent: Radical Politics in a Post-subject Age" Speaker: Nivedita Menon, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi 3:00-4:00pm Chair: Clarence Walker, History, UC Davis "The Terrorist In Search Of Humanity" Speaker: Faisal Devji, Department of History, New School for Social Research 4:00-5:00pm Roundtable: "Rights Talk and Rights Work" Chair: Flagg Miller, Religious Studies, UC Davis Speakers: Richard Falk, Suad Joseph, Zeev Maoz, Parama Roy, Sudipta Sen 5:00-6:00pm Reception
NADIA KAMAL, Egyptian filmmaker
Salata Balada (film screening)
JUDITH TUCKER, (PhD, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University)
Sexuality, Modernity, and Authenticity: The Checkered Career of zina’ in the Islamic Legal Tradition
What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq.
Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Gender Studies at University of London
3rd Annual Research Symposium
Symposium
KHALED HUSSEINI
A Conversation with the Author of the Kite Runner
"A Memorial to the Future: Remaking Islam in Secular France"
Public Lecture by Mayanthi Fernando
A Public Lecture by: Dr. Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard Professor
The Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard Univeristy
Flagg Miller, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
A reading from “Poems from Guantanamo” edited by Marc Falkoff
Yousif Chahine
A Retrospective: Classic Films of Egyptian Filmmaker Yousif Chahine
Davis Committee for Palestinian Rights Documentary Series
A series of documentaries to be shown in Davis during September/October
Abed Azzam-Public Lecture
"A Reading of Islamic Atheism against the Background of Nietzsche's Word 'God is Dead' " A Public Lecture by Abed Azzam
LAWRENCE PINTAK
America, Islam, and the War of Ideas
Ahmad Dallal
An Islamic Enlightenment? Traditions of reform in eighteenth century Islamic thought
"An Overview of Persian Classical Music"
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place and Politics
Spend an evening with Georgetown University Professor GREGORY ORFALEA Author of book Angeleno Days, Some of the best Arab American writing ever assembled.
Arab and Muslim Communities the the U.S.: Immigration, Race, and Terror
Speakers: STEVEN SALAITA, Assistant Professor, English, Virginia Tech. WAZHMA MOJADDIDI, Immigration Civil, and Criminal Lawyer. SARA M. MOSTAFAVI, Immigration Attorney SUMMER HARARAH, UC Davis undergrad; student advisor to the Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine. Moderator: SUNAINA MAIRA, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, UC Davis
Arab Studies Conference
May 2: Subjectivity and its Discontents, May 3: Decolonization and its Discontents, Official Times: TBD
The Faris Saeed Lecture Series in Arab Studies
Professors Paul Amar, Beshara Doumani and Susan Miller will participate in a panel discussion on May 11th, 2011.
Arab Studies Research Symposium
Come listen to various papers, read by UC Davis students, related to topics such as "State, Sexuality, and Medicine in Islam", "Displacement, Labor and Terror", "Framing Poetry, Cinema and Language in Arabic" and more.
Arabic Class End of the Fall Quarter Event
Performance created and presented by the beginner and intermediate Arabic students. Diverse cultural food and refreshments will be provided.
Flagg Miller
Bin Laden's Tapes The Orders and Disorders of AL-QA'IDA's audio jihad
Black Orientalism: Genesis, Purpose, and Significance for American
Religious Studies Program presents Sherman Jackson Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies University of Michigan Black Orientalism: Genesis, Purpose, and Significance for American Professor Jackson received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He is the author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996) and On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî’s Faysal al-Tafriqa Bayna al-Islam wa al-Zandaqa (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2002). Currently, he is working on a book tentatively titled Islam and the Black American.
Book Discussion: Gender and Masculinity in the Kite Runner
Keynote Speaker: PROFESSOR JAY MECHLING
Borders, Checkpoints, Crossings: Arab American and Asian American Studies
The Middle East/South Asia Studies Program and the Asian American Cultural Politics Research Group present: Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa Nadine Naber Assistant Professor, American Culture & Women’s Studies, UMichigan, Ann Arbor Moderated by Sunaina Maira This panel focuses on convergences and divergences between the fields of Arab American and Asian American studies, and how they inform debates about empire, Orientalism, racialization, and gendered nationalisms, especially after 9/11. Borders and boundaries are issues that emerge in both fields as they address questions of self-definition, institutionalization, and interdisciplinarity, as well as negotiate checkpoints or obstacles as the field evolves. Ibrahim Aoude’ is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He is co-editor of Arab Studies Quarterly and has published work on Middle East politics, Arab American identity, and Hawaiian political economy and social movements. Nadine Naber is Assistant Professor in American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a member of the Arab Women’s Gathering Organizing Collective (AWGOC) and RAWAN (Radical Arab Women’s Activist Network) and is a graduate of UCD’s Anthropology department. Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Borders, Rights, and Resistance Roundtable
Guest Speakers, Domingues, Espinoza, Kiswani, Noyola, Pang, Tactaquin, Strierl
Bring Your Own Conflict
Bring Your Own Conflict Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution, will be coming to UC Davis for two "Bring Your Own Conflict" workshops and a lecture on his book. The first "Bring Your Own Conflict" workshop will start at 1pm - 4pm on Thursday, Oct. 16th. In the workshop, Juergensmeyer will help participants work out issues using Gandhi's practices. 7:00 PM: Main Theater At 7pm, Juergensmeyer will lecture on his book in the UC Davis Main Theater, a reception will follow.
Call for Papers: South Asia by the Bay
A Graduate Student Conference at Stanford University on May 9-11, 2012
Dr. Anil Gupta
Can protecting intellectual property rights be of any consequence for poor people?
Chai and Chat
Public event, Susan Miller
Chai and Chat
Public event, Mairaj Syed & Baki Tezcan
Ebrahim Moosa
Challenges in re-thinking Islam
Characterizing a Language as a Whole: The strange Case of Hinid (Urdu)
Michael Shapiro (PhD, Languistics, University of Chicago) is Chair and professor of Hinid, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, Univsersity of Washington.
Coffee and the Conquest of the Night in the Early Modern Era
UC Davis History Department presents the 11th annual Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture Coffee and the Conquest of the Night in the Early Modern Era by Cemal Kafadar Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University Cemal Kafadar is the author, among other works, of Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman state (University of California, 1995), and a far-ranging scholar on Middle Eastern history.
Smriti Srinivas
Conversations
"Courts and Constitutional Transition: Lessons from the Turkish Case"
Public Lecture by Asli Bali
"Criminality in Space of Death: The Palestinian Case-Study"
Public Lecture, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
"Dalit Bombay: Stigma, Subalternity, and the Social Life of (Outcaste) Labor"
A Faculty Development Seminar
Differences Within and Differences Without: Early Perceptions of Others in South Asia
“Conversations,” the Sociocultural Anthropology Discussion Series, presents Differences Within and Differences Without: Early Perceptions of Others in South Asia B. D. Chattopadhyaya Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Tuesday, June 1, 2004; 4:00 PM Andrews Conference Room, Social Sciences Building B. D. Chattopadhyaya is Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His interests center on the study of the history of South Asia before the fifteenth century and span the disciplines of economic and social history, archaeology, numismatics, epigraphy, and literature. Some of his recent books include Studying Early India: Archaeology, Texts, and Historical Issues (2003), Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims: Eighth to Fourteenth Century (1998), The Making of Early Medieval India (1994), and Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India (1990).
"The Others Mobilized: Gezi and the Present Moment in Turkey"
Discussion Panel on Turkey
Dr. Maryam's Lecture
Maryam, Lecture
"Egyptians Forced to Choose Between The Muslim Brotherhood or The Military"
Interview hosted by UprisingRadio, featuring Professor Noha Radwan
End of the Two-state Solution: Apartheid, Binational State or the last Stage of Sociocide
Center for History, Society, and Culture presents a special lecture End of the Two-state Solution: Apartheid, Binational State or the last Stage of Sociocide Saleh Abdul Jawad Bir Zeit University Thursday, November 20, 2003 4 p.m., Andrews room, 2203 Social Science Humanities Building
Martina Rieker
Envisioning New Geographies after the Postcolonial World Order
Faculty Development Seminar
Archana Venkatesan, Assistant Professor Comparative Lit and Religious Studies, Performing the Past to Remember for the Future: The Case of Hereditary Performance Traditions in south Indian temples.
"Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life of an Indian Township in South Africa"
Anthropology Fall Colloquium 2013, Thomas Hansen
Fall Welcome
Come and join the ME/SA faculty and students for a meet and greet full of information about our program, brand new major, Middle East/South Asia student organizations, and lots of free food. Everyone is welcome!
Fall Welcome
Come and join the ME/SA faculty and students for a meet and greet full of information about our program, Middle East/South Asia student organizations, and lots of free food. Everyone is welcome!
Fatal Attraction: Interest, Intimacy and Violence in Indian Political Thought.
India/South Asia Speakers Series
Fault Lines: Disasters and the Imagination of Democracy
Special Lecture and Discussion Fault Lines: Disasters and the Imagination of Democracy Shiv Visvanathan Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Visiting Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
Gayatri Gopinath
Feminist Approaches to South Asia
"Feminists Negotiate Power: The Battle Over the Egyptian Constitution"
Public lecture by Hoda Elsadda
"Fifty Shades of Anti-Imperialism: Rethinking Post-secularism and Dissent through the Islamic State and Revolutionary Muslims"
Public Lecture, Evern Savci
Final Solution Screening
Film Screening, Director: Rakesh Sharma
"Generation Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture and the Youth Movement"
Book Talk, Sunaina Maira
"Giving Voice to the Arab Jew: Engaging Mizrahi Critics of Zionism"
Seminar: Keif Cohen, Rachel Feldman, Susan Miller
"Gradual Radicalization: The Decision-Making Process for the Armenian Genocide" ***EVENT CANCELLED***
*****EVENT CANCELLED***** Public Lecture, Taner Ackam
"Greatness in Ottoman-Jewish and Italian Political Thought"
Public Lecture, Vasileios Syros
SUNAINA MAIRA
Guilt Redemption, and Gratitude in the Kite Runner
Hafla/Mela
Join UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program for an evening of free food and entertainment. Graduating students with a ME/SA minor will receive special recognition. This is a great opportunity for those interested in the ME/SA minor or major to speak with ME/SA faculty. Come find out about the new ME/SA major to be launched Fall 2008. Entertainment and food provided. Entertainment: Zindagi Hindi Film Dance Team; Middle Eastern Dance Group; poetry; Middle Eastern and South Asian music
Hafla/Mela
ME/SA end of the year event with students.
Hafla Mela
Join us to Celebrate ME/SA’s Fifth Anniversary Dr. Suad Joseph’s completion of her term as ME/SA Director The Graduation of First ME/SA Majors The Graduation of ME/SA Minors FEATURING Lebanese-American Poet, Essayist, and Visual Artist ETEL ADAN Persian Bandari Dance Middle Eastern and South Asian Music, Dance, and Poetry
Hafla/Mela 2010
Join us celebrate ME/SA’s annual event with an evening of free food and entertainment . Graduating students with ME/SA Major and Minor will receive special recognition. This is a great opportunity for those interested in the ME/SA Major or Minor to speak with ME/SA faculty.
Pearling in the Indian Ocean: Public Lecture by Pedro Machado
Pedro Machado, Professor of History at Indiana University on pearling in the Indian Ocean. Co-Sponsored by the Mellon Indian Ocean Initiative.
Sikh Musical Traditions and Performance: Public Lecture by Inderjit Kaur
Inderjit Kaur, Music Lecturer at UC Berkeley on Sikh Musical Traditions and Performance
