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  • 2018 Sep 28

    9:00am to 5:00pm

    Location:

    Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
    presents

    Center for Middle Eastern Studies (1)Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

    Professor William A. Graham retired in July 2018 after a long and distinguished career at Harvard. Please join us for a day-long conference in honor of his career and scholarship.... Read more about Thinking Islam Within Religions Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

  • 2018 Mar 23

    9:00am to 5:30pm

    Location:

    CGIS Knafel 262, Bowie-Vernon Room, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    The Center for Middle Eastern Studiespresents

    Growing Up in Contemporary IraqCenter for Middle Eastern Studies (2)
    Thisone-day symposium will focus on Iraq's youth: what it is like to be one of the 20 million young Iraqis under 30 living in Iraq today.... Read more about Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq

  • 2017 Apr 07

    Fri - Sat, Apr 7 to Apr 8, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

    Location:

    CGIS South, Rm 020, 1730 Cambridge St; Piper Auditorium, Grad School of Design 48 Quincy St

    The Aga Khan Program and The Department of Landscape Architecture, HarvardGraduate School of Designand the CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Seriespresent

    AFTER DARK: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula
    In the Arabian Peninsula, publicspaces are often most used after darkness falls and the temperatures with it. This symposium explores typologies of nocturnal landscapes common in the Peninsula, and similar hot climates. During this interdisciplinary event, we will ask who uses night-timelandscapes and public spaces, what activities are peculiar to the night and ultimately, how to design for life after dark?

    If you plan to attend this conference, please register here.... Read more about After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula

  • 2017 Mar 30

    Thu - Fri, Mar 30 to Mar 31, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

    Location:

    Williams James Hall, Lecture Hall B1, Lower Level, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

    The Center for Middle Eastern Studiespresents a conference

    On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War, this event seeks to explore new approaches to understand and rethink this pivotal and transformative moment in the history of the modern Middle East. At stake is the search for new sources that can shed light on the war and its long term repercussions for Arab societies.

    Organized by:William Granara, Professor of Arabic, Director,Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and Khaled Fahmy, ShawwafVisiting Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History; Professor of History, American University of Cairo... Read more about The Naksa Fifty Years Later: New Sources, Questions and Approaches to the ‘67 War

  • 2017 Mar 24

    (All day)

    Location:

    Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

    The Harvard Asia Center, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard Center for African Studies, Harvard History Department, Harvard Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard Medieval Studies Committee, Harvard Center for History and Economics, Mellon Rare Book School, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairspresent a conference

    Center for Middle Eastern Studies (3)

    This event proposes a new concept—“(dis)entanglement”—in order to provide alternative narratives of the early modern world, 1300-1800. Recent scholarship has emphasized the integrative nature of economic, material, and religious developments. In contrast, we will examine what the “global” could mean in intellectual and cultural interactions in terms of both integration and disintegration across multiple continents and oceans. The conference participants will explore how the notion of “(dis)entanglement” allows us to evoke a polycentric early modern world that is simultaneously connecting and disconnecting.... Read more about (Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800

  • 2017 Mar 09

    (All day)

    Location:

    Center for European Studies, Lower Level, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    The Harvard Graduate Conference on International History(Con-IH 17) presents theconference

    Migration, Immigration, DiasporaCenter for Middle Eastern Studies (4)

    Organized by GSAS graduate students: Tommy Jamison, Rafi Stern, Chloe Bordewitch, Kelly Brignac, Ruodi Duan, Aden Knaap, and Georgia Whitaker... Read more about Migration, Immigration, Diaspora

  • 2017 Feb 16

    Thu Feb 16 (All day) to Sat Feb 18 (All day)

    Location:

    Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall 116, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Conference co-chairsProfessor Ousmane Kane and PhD Candidate Matthew Steele
    present

    Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa... Read more about Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa

  • 2016 Nov 16

    10:00am to 5:00pm

    Location:

    CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

    Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a workshop organized by Roger Owen

    This workshop aims to historicize violent conflicts in the states of the Post-Mandate territories and to understand the Arabic terminology of violence in a trans-temporal and trans-national framework.... Read more about Fitna: Civil War or Sectarian Conflict? Understanding Political Violence Within the Post-Mandate Arab States

  • 2016 Apr 29

    1:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location:

    Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard

    Nicholas Watson, Nora Lessersohn, and Sean Gilsdorf, co-organizers, present

    A Symposium in Memory of Shahab Ahmed... Read more about What is Islam? A Symposium in Memory of Shahab Ahmed

  • 2016 Apr 29

    (All day)

    Location:

    Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St, Cambridge, MA (details below)

    The Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School presents the conference

    The Molecularization of Identity: Science and Subjectivity in the 21st Century... Read more about The Molecularization of Identity: Science and Subjectivity in the 21st Century

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