Past Events 2013-2014
Film Screening: "Where Should the Birds Fly"
Oct 03, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM — Andrews Conference Room (SS&H 2203),Director: Fida Qishta
"The Cyrus Cylinder and a Trans-confessional Narrative of Iranian Civilization"
Oct 16, 2013 from 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM — ARC, Ballroom A,Public Lecture, Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi
"Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life of an Indian Township in South Africa"
Oct 21, 2013 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM — Andrews Conference Room (2203 SS&H Building),Anthropology Fall Colloquium 2013, Thomas Hansen
Teach-In: "The Middle East: Protests and Transformations"
Nov 06, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM — Memorial Union, King Room (second floor),(see panelists below)
"Travelling Knowledges from the North East: A case study of Karbi Funeral Narratives"
Nov 06, 2013 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM — 273 SS&H (downstairs),Public Lecture, Debashree Duttaray
"Viral Occupation: New Media Technologies and Israeli Military Rule"
Nov 07, 2013 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM — 126 Voorhies Hall,Public Lecture, Rebecca Stein
"The Others Mobilized: Gezi and the Present Moment in Turkey"
Nov 14, 2013 from 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM — Art Annex (Technocultural Studies Building),Discussion Panel on Turkey
"Jewish Thinking about Islam during the Medieval Period"
Nov 20, 2013 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM — TDB,Public Lecture, Jonathan Decter
"Egyptians Forced to Choose Between The Muslim Brotherhood or The Military"
Jan 17, 2014 from 07:00 PM to 07:20 PM — --,Interview hosted by UprisingRadio, featuring Professor Noha Radwan
"Criminality in Space of Death: The Palestinian Case-Study"
Jan 28, 2014 from 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM — ARC, Ballroom B,Public Lecture, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
"In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Sexuality, Historiography, South Asia"
02-06-2014 04:02 PM — Andrews Conference Room (SS&H 2203),Public Lecture by Anjali Arondekar
"Sidi Bouzid Blues and the Green Wave: Journeys through the Arab Spring and Fall"
Feb 10, 2014 from 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM — Conference Center, Ballroom A,Public Lecture, Karima Bennoune
"Giving Voice to the Arab Jew: Engaging Mizrahi Critics of Zionism"
Feb 11, 2014 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM — Andrews Conference Room (SS&H 2203),Seminar: Keif Cohen, Rachel Feldman, Susan Miller
"Muslim Converts, Christian Wives: Locating Hybrid Armenian-Muslim Identities in the Sharia Courts of Aleppo"
Feb 12, 2014 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM — Andrews Conference Room (2203 SS&H Building),Public Lecture, Elyse Semerdjian
"Women's Rights in Morocco and the 2011 Constitution"
Feb 20, 2014 from 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM — ARC, Ballroom A,Public Lecture by Fatima Sadiqi
"The Politics of Secular Pilgrimage: Paul-Emile Botta's Red Sea Expedition, 1836-1839"
Feb 26, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 03:30 PM — 1271 Social Sciences & Humanities Bldg,Public Lecture by Sahar Bazzaz
"Through a Text Darkly: Ottoman Sexuality in the Sixteenth Century"
Feb 28, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 03:00 PM — Andrews Conference Room (2203 SS&H Building),Public Lecture by Selim S. Kuru
"Cosmopolitan Pahlavans? Persianate Athletic Culture from the Balkans to Bengal"
Mar 14, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 03:00 PM — 1271 Social Sciences & Humanities Bldg,Faculty and Grad Seminar by Houchang Chehabi
"Israel in Asia: Settler Colonialism, Mobility, and Rupture"
Apr 07, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 03:00 PM — Andrews Conference Room (2203 SS&H Building),Public Lecture by Magid Shihade
"An Overview of Persian Classical Music"
Apr 10, 2014 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM — Andrews Conference Room (2203 SS&H Building),THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
"Courts and Constitutional Transition: Lessons from the Turkish Case"
Apr 14, 2014 from 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM — 273 SS&H (downstairs),Public Lecture by Asli Bali
"The Aporias of Urban Protest in Istanbul: How Middle Class Revolt Undermines Itself"
Apr 23, 2014 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM — 273 Social Science & Humanities (downstairs),Public lecture by Cihan Tugal
"Religion and its Discontents"
May 01, 2014 from 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM — Andrews Conference Room (2203 SS&H Building),Roundtable convened and moderated by Smriti Srinivas
Arab Studies Conference
from 05-02-2014 12:05 AM to 05-03-2014 12:05 AM — ARC, Ballroom A,May 2: Subjectivity and its Discontents, May 3: Decolonization and its Discontents, Official Times: TBD
ME/SA Community Week (May 5th-9th)
May 09, 2014 from 12:00 AM to 12:00 PMCheck out all the events planned for this ME/SA cultural week!
ME/SA Faculty Development Seminar
May 09, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM — 1246 Social Science and Humanities Building,Seminar by Nayan Shah
"Spirited Topographies: Urban Religiosity, Mobilities and Practices"
May 09, 2014 from 08:00 AM to 06:00 PM — Andrews Conference Room (SS&H 2203) and SS&H 273,One-day, UC-wide symposium, Smriti Srinivas
"Reading Egypt through Indonesia"
May 12, 2014 from 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM — 273 Social Science & Humanities,Public Lecture by Engeng Ho
Arab Studies Research Symposium
May 16, 2014 from 02:00 PM to 09:00 PM — Memorial Union, MU II,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.