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Apr
11
2023

Zeina Hashem Beck: Reading and Conversation

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

Join MENA and Creative Writing for an evening with acclaimed poet Zeina Hashem Beck! Reception followed by poetry reading. Zeina Hashem Beck...

Apr
24
2023

MENA Mondays: Book Talk: Iran in Motion

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Drawing on newspapers, industry publications, travelogues,...

Apr
27
2023

The Manfred H. Vogel Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies

"The Freudian Lullaby Contest: How the Yiddish Press Covered Psychoanalysis" Naomi Seidman,  Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts in the Department...

May
4
2023

Lecture by Emily Greble (CCHS lunch lecture)

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies

Emily GREBLE (Vanderbilt University), author of Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (2021)—Thursday, May 4 LUNCH LECTURE Lecture: “Equality before...

May
15
2023

MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM | Thadeus Dowad

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

This faculty colloquium will be a manuscript workshop for an upcoming article adapted from a chapter of Thadeus Dowad's dissertation,...

May
22
2023

MENA Mondays: Book Talk: Sentient Flesh

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

 In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham’s 1937 remark “we should have our liberty 'cause ....

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