“Conversations,” the Socio-cultural Anthropology Discussion Series present

Pather Chujaeri (The Play is On) and Mat (The Vote)

Two films by Pankaj Kumar Mishra

Screened on October 13, 2003, followed by discussion with the director.

For more information contact Smriti Srinivas: ssrinivas@ucdavis.edu

Opening Ceremony for Campus Community Book Project

Wednesday, October 15, 2003: Noon - 1:00 pm
Peace Tree on the West Side of Mrak Hall

Facilitated by Professor Ines Hernandez-Avila, Native American Studies.

The Campus Community Book Project for 2003 selected "Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution," by Mark Juergensmeyer. This book provides a guide for respectful and constructive dialogue on conflicting ideologies, values and perspectives within our multicultural environment. Please come and join the Campus Community Book Project's Opening Ceremony at the campus' tree of peace.

Sponsored by the University of California, Davis, the City of Davis, and the Davis Joint Unified School District.

For more information contact Smriti Srinivas: ssrinivas@ucdavis.edu

Bring Your Own Conflict

Thursday, October 16, 2003: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Memorial Union II

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.

Sponsored by the City of Davis, the Davis Joint Unified School District, and the Office of the Vice Provost for University Outreach and International Programs.

For more information contact Smriti Srinivas: ssrinivas@ucdavis.edu

Reception for Mahatma - Images of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Wednesday October 29, 2003: 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Shields Library Courtyard

There will be a reception for the Photo Exhibit-Mahatma - Images of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-that is on display at Shields Library from October 20th - November 19th. Come and check it out! Remarks by Marilyn Sharrow, University Librarian, and Smriti Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology will begin at 4pm.

For more information contact Smriti Srinivas: ssrinivas@ucdavis.edu

The Life of Gandhi, film and discussion

Wednesday, November 12, 2003: Noon - 2:00 pm
East Conference Room, Memorial Union

Facilitated by Smriti Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology. This event will feature clips from Richard Attenborough's film, "Gandhi." The film clips feature Gandhi in South Africa and his encounter with racism, problems of the diaspora and colonialism as well as his return to India to fight British imperialism. The event will conclude with a short talk by Professor Smriti Srinivas with time allotted for discussion.

Co-sponsored by Staff Assembly Diversity Advisory Committe.

For more information contact Smriti Srinivas: ssrinivas@ucdavis.edu

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

Co-sponsored with the CHSC Middle East/South Asia Research Cluster and the Institute for Governmental Affairs

For more information contact Suad Joseph: sjoseph@ucdavis.edu

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

Co-sponsored with the CHSC Middle East/South Asia Research Cluster and the Institute for Governmental Affairs

For more information contact Suad Joseph: sjoseph@ucdavis.edu

Film Series

Winter 2004

Open to all – Admission Free

Mondays 6:00 - 202 Wellman Hall

January 26: Umm Kulthum (A Voice Like Egypt)

The diva of Arabic music, the most powerful symbol of the Arab world

(1996, Michael Goldman)

February 2: Wild Flowers, Women of South Lebanon

Women of the resistance, a drama of courage, resistance and hope

(1986, Jean Khalil Chamoun & Mai Masri)

February 9: A Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbes

Struggles of Algerian women of today, few resources and many obstacles

(2000, Belkacem Hadjadj)

February 23: Women of Hezbollah

The personal, political and social commitment of two women from Hezbollah in Lebanon

(2000, Maher Abi Samra)

March 1: Farha

Women’s struggles in Palestine, in Israeli prisons, their organizing to better society

(M. Anis Barghouti)

March 8: Four Women of Egypt

Projects for social change, Arab nationalism, Islamic movements, secularism and women

(1997, Tahani Rashed)

Organized by Dr. Zeina Zaatari

Sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Students for Justice in Palestine, Third World Forum, Women and Gender Studies

Unveiling Stereotypes: Woman in Islamic Societies

Barbara Ibrahim, Director, Population Council, Cairo

Monday, February 23, 2004

12 p.m., 2203 Social Science/Humanities Building

Dr. Barbara Ibrahim is Regional Director for West Asia and North Africa of the Population Council in Cairo. She is internationally recognized as a leading scholar on Arab gender and population issues. She has written extensively on women, children, adolescents, reproductive health, family planning, gender dynamics, civil society and development. As Regional Director of the Population Council she has led the Council’s research program in the Arab countries of North Africa and West Asia and in Pakistan, Turkey and Iran and mentored young regional scholars, especially women. Author of numerous books and articles, she received the Life Time Achievement Award of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.

Cosponsored with CHSC Middle East/South Asia Research Cluster, the Institute for Government Affairs, and the Department of Sociology

For more information contact Suad Joseph: sjoseph@ucdavis.edu

Islamic Reformation and the Prospects for Arab Democracy

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, American University, Cairo

Monday, February 23, 2004

4 p.m., University Club

Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo and an internationally known and respected scholar of political, social, and economic development in the Arab world. He gained additional world attention when he was arrested in 2000 by the Egyptian government for charges that political observers and activists argued were trumped up to silence political dissent in Egypt. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to 7 years of hard labor. After 18 months in Egyptian jails, he was acquitted, in 2003, of all charges following an international outcry by human rights groups and many world governments, including the United States government which threatened cutting aid to Egypt over his unjust imprisonment. Dr. Ibrahim has written about democracy, Islam, civil society, citizenship and is the founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. He has received numerous awards, including the Pagels Award, New York Academy of Sciences; American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award; Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament; International PEN Writers in Distress Award; International Human Rights Award of the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights; the Bette Bao Lord Prize for Writing in the Cause of Freedom and the Middle East Studies Association Academic Freedom Award. He has published over a dozen books and several hundred articles in English and Arabic.

Cosponsored with CHSC Middle East/South Asia Research Cluster, the Institute for Government Affairs, and the Department of Sociology

For more information contact Suad Joseph: sjoseph@ucdavis.edu

Unequal Justice? Gender, Islamic Law, and the Courts in the Premodern Ottoman Empire

by Leslie Peirce
Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley

on Monday, April 12, 4 pm; at the Andrews Room (2203 Social Sciences & Humanities Bldg.)

cosponsored with the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program

with the support of the Davis Humanities Institute

Leslie Peirce received her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1988. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught at Cornell University. Her teaching and research interests concentrate on the early modern Middle East, focusing on such issues as gender and sexuality, law and society, and comparative empires. Her most recent work, Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (California University Press, 2003) takes the stories of three women as central cases through which we see the people of the sixteenth century Aintab (today's Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey) grapple with issues of class, morality, heresy, and the differences between men and women. These three women are Ine, a child bride whose marriage is in trouble, Haciye Sabah, a teacher who is on trial, and Fatma who is a pregnant peasant girl. The study highlights the heterogeneity of law and the variability of justice very clearly while it portraits justice as a process not a structure.

For more information contact Baki Tezcan: btezcan@ucdavis.edu

Citing Regions: A Critical Dialogue between Middle East and South Asia Studies

A Middle East/South Asia Symposium

Thursday April 29, 2004

Silo Cabernet Room

2:00-7:00pm

2:10-3:00pm

Keynote Speaker: Martina Rieker – Department of History,

American University in Cairo

“Geographies of Knowledge and the Politics of Space: Middle East and South Asia”

3:00-3:30pm

Bishnupriya Ghosh – Department of English, UC Davis

“A Country without a Post Office: Beyond/Beneath Colonial Modern Cultural Geographies”

3:30-4:00pm

Madhavi Sunder – UC Davis School of Law

“Network Effects: Women Living under Muslim Laws Producing Transnational Knowledge”

4:00-4:30pm

Eileen Kuttab – Birzeit University, Director of Women’s Studies

“Women’s Studies in Conflict Situations”

4:30-6:00pm

Discussion

* The Symposium will be followed by a dinner reception from 6:00-7:00pm *

Sponsored by:

The Middle East/South Asia Research Cluster, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, and the Center for History, Society, and Culture

The future of Cyprus in the light of the psychology of ethnic conflict

by Norman Itzkowitz
Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

on
Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 4 pm; at the IGA room in the Shields Library (third floor)

If the Greek and Turkish Cypriots approve the plan finalized by the Secretary General of the UN, a reunited Cyprus will enter the European Union on May 1, 2004. Norman Itzkowitz, who has been privy to Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, started his academic career as an Ottoman historian and is continuing it as an enthusiastic practitioner of psychoanalytical approaches to history. His books include Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition; The immortal Atatürk: a psychobiography (with Vamik Volkan); Turks and Greeks: neighbours in conflict (with Vamik Volkan); and Richard Nixon: a psychobiography (with Vamik Volkan and Andrew W. Dod).

For more information contact Baki Tezcan: btezcan@ucdavis.edu

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

Co-sponsored with the Center for History, Society and Culture; Department of Anthropology; Department of History; Religious Studies; Institute of Governmental Affairs; and the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program

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).