Past Events 2013-2014
"The Cyrus Cylinder and a Trans-confessional Narrative of Iranian Civilization"
Public Lecture, Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi
"Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life of an Indian Township in South Africa"
Anthropology Fall Colloquium 2013, Thomas Hansen
"Travelling Knowledges from the North East: A case study of Karbi Funeral Narratives"
Public Lecture, Debashree Duttaray
"Egyptians Forced to Choose Between The Muslim Brotherhood or The Military"
Interview hosted by UprisingRadio, featuring Professor Noha Radwan
"Criminality in Space of Death: The Palestinian Case-Study"
Public Lecture, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
"In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Sexuality, Historiography, South Asia"
Public Lecture by Anjali Arondekar
"Sidi Bouzid Blues and the Green Wave: Journeys through the Arab Spring and Fall"
Public Lecture, Karima Bennoune
"Giving Voice to the Arab Jew: Engaging Mizrahi Critics of Zionism"
Seminar: Keif Cohen, Rachel Feldman, Susan Miller
"Muslim Converts, Christian Wives: Locating Hybrid Armenian-Muslim Identities in the Sharia Courts of Aleppo"
Public Lecture, Elyse Semerdjian
"The Politics of Secular Pilgrimage: Paul-Emile Botta's Red Sea Expedition, 1836-1839"
Public Lecture by Sahar Bazzaz
"Cosmopolitan Pahlavans? Persianate Athletic Culture from the Balkans to Bengal"
Faculty and Grad Seminar by Houchang Chehabi
"The Aporias of Urban Protest in Istanbul: How Middle Class Revolt Undermines Itself"
Public lecture by Cihan Tugal
Arab Studies Conference
May 2: Subjectivity and its Discontents, May 3: Decolonization and its Discontents, Official Times: TBD
"Spirited Topographies: Urban Religiosity, Mobilities and Practices"
One-day, UC-wide symposium, Smriti Srinivas
Arab Studies Research Symposium
Come listen to various papers, read by UC Davis students, related to topics such as "State, Sexuality, and Medicine in Islam", "Displacement, Labor and Terror", "Framing Poetry, Cinema and Language in Arabic" and more.
