Events 2009-2010
October 6, 3:15 pm, Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260) , Rm. 216
Samia Kassab-Charfi, University of Tunis
"Quelle culture habiter? Les dialogues d’identités (tunisienne, juive, française) dans les récits de Colette Fellous”
[Co-sponsored with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Center for African Studies, the Department of French and Italian] more
Wednesday, October 7, noon, Encina Hall Central, Rm. 464
Samia Kassab-Charfi, Professor of Literature, University of Tunis
“From Minor Key to Major one: The Story of a Black Slave Transfiguration in the Tunisian Sixteenth Century. A Postcolonial Reading of a Tunisian Novel”
[Co-sponsored with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Center for African Studies, the Department of French and Italian] more
Tuesday, October 27, 5:00 pm, Encina Hall West, Rm. 208
Asli Igsiz, Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies, The University of Arizona
"Grounds for Comparison: Jewish and Christian Converts to Islam within the context of 1923 Greco-Turkish Compulsory Religious Minority Exchange”
Friday, November 6, noon, Lane History Corner (Building 200), Rm. 307
Hussein Fancy, Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Theologies of Violence: Muslim Soldiers in Medieval Catalonia"
[Co-sponsored with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Center for European Studies]
November 10 , noon, Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Rm. #252
Carles Torner, Institut Ramon Llull
"Shoah: The Excavating Gaze"
[Co-sponsored by Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Department of French and Italian]
Friday, December 4, 12 noon - 1pm, Encina Hall West, Rm. 208
CREEES Roundtable Session on The Quest for Energy in Eurasia
Suhnaz Yilmaz,
Associate Professor International Relations,
Koc University (Istanbul)
"Turkey's Role in Eurasian Energy Policy"
Scott Littlefield,
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge
"Identity Politics of Energy Policy: Ukraine and Russia"
[Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies]
Monday, January 25, Encina Hall East, Room E008
Prof. Ahmet Evin, Sabanci University (Turkey); Trans-Atlantic Academy Fellow
“The Regional Context of Turkey’s Foreign Policy"
[Co-sponsored with the Center for International Security and Cooperation]
Friday&Saturday, January 29-30, venue TBA
Workshop on Early Modern Things
Presenters: Anne Goldgar (King’s College, University of London), Julie Hochstrasser (University of Iowa), Alan Mikhail (Stanford University), Luca Mola (University of Warwick), Erika Monahan (University of New Mexico), Chandra Mukerji (UC San Diego), Carla Nappi (University of British Columbia), Marcy Norton (George Washington University), Mark Peterson (UC Berkeley), Morgan Pitelka (Occidental College), Jessica Riskin (Stanford University), Pamela Smith (Columbia University), Corey Tazzara (Stanford University), Amanda Vickery (Royal Holloway, University of London), Evelyn Welch (Queen Mary College, University of London), Renata Ago (University of Rome “La Sapienza”), Timothy Brook (University of British Columbia)
[Co-sponsored with the Department of History, Center for European Studies]
Thursday&Friday, April 29-30, venue TBA
Gulru Necipoglu, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard University
"Aesthetics of Ornament in the Ottoman and Safavid Regimes of Visuality"
[Co-sponsored with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Art History Department and Medieval Studies]
