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ME/SA Fall Welcome 2006 (October 17)

The ME/SA faculty and students host an informational night and dinner. King Lounge, Memorial Union (Second floor). Free event.

Matthew Shenoda presents "They Killed me once/Then wore my face many times": Poetry as Counter-Hegemonic Media. Matthew Shenoda's poems and writings have appeared in a variety of newspapers and journals as well as in the anthrologies Contemporary Voices of the Eastern World: An Anthropology of Poems (forthcoming 2007), Arab American and Arab Anglophone Literature (forthcoming 2007), The Other Side of the Postcard: War and Peace On the Streets of San Francisco, and Poets Against the War.

Film: “A Closer Look at Islam” & Panel Discussion; Iftar to follow Featuring Traditional Afghani Cuisine

Date: October 17, 2005, 5-8pm

Location: University Club

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Title: Hidden Voices-The Lives of Queer Muslims

Location: 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences

Date: October 18, 2005, 12-1:30pm

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: REGINA SCHEVYNES, P.h.D.

Massey University, New Zealand



Title: Women, Religion, & Empowerment: Christianity in the Solomon Islands and Islam in Sumatra

Date: October 24, 2005, 4-5:30pm

Location: 3201 Hart Hall

Sponsors: Gender and Global Issues

Keynote Speaker: PROFESSOR JAY MECHLING

Book Discussion: Gender and Masculinity in the Kite Runner

Date: October 26, 2005 12:10-1:30pm

Location: 126 Voorhies

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: LAWRENCE COHEN

University of California, Berkeley

Title: The Death of a Pushkin: Homosexuality, the Photograph and Indian Neo-liberalism

Date: October 31, 2005, 4-6pm

Location: 184 Young Hall

Keybote Speaker: Etel Adnan

Noted Lebanese poet, playwright, novelist, painter, tapestry designer

Title: Place, Movement and Memory: Etel Adnan Readers Her Work

Date: November 3, 2005, 4-6pm

Location: University Club Room, UC Davis Campus

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project; Middle East/South Asia Studies; Anthropology; Center for History, Society and Culture; Davis Humanities Institute; Consortium for Women and Research; Cultural Studies; English; Teaching Resources Center; University Writing Program; Women and Gender Studies Program; Women's Resources and Research Center.

A Test of Faith: The Challenges of Young Muslims in America

Date: November 7, 2005, 7-9pm

Location: Memorial Union II

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keybote Speaker: ROCHONA MAJUMDAR

South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Title: Family Values: Debates around the Hindu Code Bill, 1955-56

Date: November 3, 2005, 4-6pm

Location: Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building

Sponsors: Center for History, Society, Culture and History Dept

Keybote Speaker: SHALA MOKHTARAZADA

Film: Afghanistan Unvieled” & Discussion of Current Event in Afghanistan

Date: November 8, 2005, 4-6pm

Location: International House: 10 College Park , Davis

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: Dipesh Chakrabarty

Department of History, University of Chicago

Title: The Public Life of History

Date: November 8, 2005

Location: University Club Room

Sponsors: Center for History, Society, Culture and History Dept.

Keynote Speaker: SUNAINA MAIRA

Title: Guilt Redemption, and Gratitude in the Kite Runner

Date: November 9, 2005, 12-1pm

Location: Shields Library

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: KHALED HUSSEINI

Title: A Conversation with the Author of the Kite Runner

Date: November 14, 2005, 8pm

Location: Mondavi Center

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: NIGEL ALLAN

Title: Historical and Geographical Perspectives of Afghanistan

Date: November 16, 2005, 7-9pm

Location: Bookstore Special Events Room, 169 Memorial Union

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: PATRICK BROWN

Title: Mines to Vines Program

Date: November 17, 2005, 12-1:30pm

Location: 3001 Plant & Environmental Sciences

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: AMEENA JANDALI

Title: Islam & Women’s Rights

Date: November 21, 2005, 4-5:30pm

Location: Mee Room Memorial Union

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: MAIMUL KHAN

Legal scholar University of California , Davis

Title: Islam & Democracy

Date: November 29, 2005

Location: Bookstore Special Events Room, 169 Memorial Union

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: SAYED ALAVI

Title: Lecture on Visual Arts-By highly successful Iranian-American Artist

Date: November 30, 2005, 7-9pm

Location: Graduate Student Studios

Sponsors: Nelson Gallery , Iranian Student Aesthetic and Cultural Organization

Event: Afghan Cultural Night

Location: Freeborn Hall

Date: December. 5, 2005, 7-10pm

Sponsors: Campus Community Book Project 2005

Keynote Speaker: LAWRENCE PINTAK, Director of the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism, American University in Cairo

Title: America, Islam, and the War of Ideas

Date: January 17, 2006, 4-6pm

Sponsors: Middle East/South Asia Studies

Keynote Speaker: HAMID DABASHI, Professor of Iranian Studies, Columbia University

Title: Kiarostami or Makhmalbaf: On the Antinomies of Iranian Culture.

Date: January 31, 2006, Reception 6-7 pm, Lecture 7-9pm

Location: University Club Room 1 & 2

Sponsors: Middle East/South Asia Studies and the Iranian Student, Aesthetic and Cultural Organization (ISCAO)

Title: Gayatri Gopinath and Juana Rodriguez Reading Sexuality : An Author Event

Date: February 2 2006, 12-1:30pm

Location: Garrison Room, MU

Food served.  Book signing by authors

Sponsors: the Women's Resources and Research Center & the Sexuality Studies Program

For more information, call 752-3372.


Keynote Speaker: LILA ABU-LUGHOUD, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Title: The Debate on Gender, Religion, and Rights: Tough Questions from a Middle East Anthropologist.

Date: May 1, 2006, 4-6pm, Reception 6-7pm

Location: Cabernet Room, Silo, UC Davis Campus

Sponsors: Middle East/South Asia Studies; Anthropology; Center for History, Society and Culture; Consortium for Women and Research; Davis Humanities Institute; Women's Resources and Research Center

SYMPOSIUM: “Modern Iran : Revolution, War, Gender and Nation”

Keynote Speaker: Minoo Moallem, San Francisco State University
Keynote Speaker: Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles
Keynote Speaker: Afshin Marashi, California State University, Sacramento
Keynote Speaker: David Yaghoubian, California State University, San Bernardino

Date: May 17, 2006, 4-7pm, Reception 7-8pm (Program and date Preliminary)

THIRD ANNUAL HAFLA/MELA

Date: May 9, 2006, 5-8pm

Location: University Club

Sponsors: Sponsored by Middle East/South Asia Studies



 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

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