Events 2008-2009

Mediterranean Forum Events

November 14, noon, Lane History Corner (Building 200), Room # 307

Ussama Makdisi, History, Rice University

“"The Persistence of American Exceptionalism and Orientalism:
An Essay on America and the Middle East”

Co-sponsored by the Department of History.

January 22 , 4:30- 6:00 pm, Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room

Karen Bakey, Sociology, Columbia University

"Sorting out Toleration and Persecution: Imperial Examples"

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center.

February 17 , 4:30- 6:00 pm

Huricihan Islamoglu , History, Visiting Professor at University of California-Berkeley

"From Mediterranean World Economy to Sharing in Modernity : A World History on the Ottoman Empire"