Middle East Studies at Brown sponsors and organizes dozens of lectures, conferences, workshops, book launches, and social activities on campus each semester. See below for a list of our upcoming events in the 2012-2013 academic year, arranged in chronological order. Scroll to the end of the page for a list of past events that have taken place earlier this year.
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May 26, 2013: MES Undergraduate Diploma Ceremony and Reception, Brown Hillel, Social Hall, 80 Brown Street. 2:15-4:00 PM (estimated)
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Past Events
The following is a listing of past events organized by Middle East Studies.
Sep 20, 2013: MES LECTURE – Samar Yazbek, Woman in the Crossfire. http://www.middleeastbrown.org/events/samar-yazbek-speaks-at-brown. Lecture, Q&A, Reception. 4:00 PM Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum
Oct 17, 2013: MES Luncheon Seminar with Linda Quiquivix (Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Global Humanities, Cogut Center), The Cartographic Conquest of Palestine. 12:00-1:00 PM, Watson Institute, Birkelund Boardroom.
Oct 18, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held every Thursday at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Birkelund Boardroom. Open to all.
Oct 25, 2013: MES Year-Beginning Celebration and Reception, Watson Institute, Lobby. 4:00 – 5:30 PM. Friends of MES.
Nov 1, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held every Thursday at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Birkelund Boardroom. Open to all.
Nov 5, 2013: MES LECTURE – Panel discussion, book signing, and reception for Dr. Sherine Hamdy’s new book, Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt. 4:00-6:00 PM. Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum and Lobby. Open to the public. Click here for more information.
Nov 8, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held every Thursday at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Birkelund Boardroom. Open to all.
Nov 15, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held every Thursday at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Birkelund Boardroom. Open to all.
Nov 29, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held every Thursday at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Birkelund Boardroom. Open to all.
Dec 6, 2013: MES LECTURE – Karen Elliott House on her new book, On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines — and Future. Lecture and Q&A, followed by a Reception. Open to all. 4:00 -5:30 PM, Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum.
Dec 13, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held every Thursday at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to all.
Jan 25, 2013: Barenboim and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra. Panel discussion, Reception, Entertainment Event
Jan 30, 2013: MES Luncheon Seminar with Nukhet Sandal (Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies, Watson Institute), Public Theologies of Citizenship in the Middle East: Revisiting the Turkish Model. 12:00-1:00 PM, Watson Institute, Birkelund Boardroom. Click here for more information.
Jan 31, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to all.
Feb 6, 2013: MES Lecture Series begins 2013 with Ariella Azoulay, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media, at the Joukowsky Forum in the Watson Institute from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Click here for more information.
Feb 7, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to friends of MES.
Feb 14, 2013: MES and SAS Qahwa and Chai Open House, a coffee and tea social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to all.
Feb 20, 2013: MES Lecture Series with Salim Tamari entitled “Ottoman Ethnographic Mapping of Palestine and Syria.” Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute. 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Free and open to the public.
Feb 21, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to friends of MES.
Feb 21, 2013: Undergrad student paper series. Watson Institute, Koo Library. 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Feb 22-23, 2013: Engaged Scholarship Workshop. Closed workshop. Watson Institute, McKinney Room
Feb 28, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to friends of MES.
Feb 28, 2013: Undergrad student paper series. Watson Institute, Koo Library. 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Mar 6, 2013: MES Luncheon Seminar with Katharina Galor (Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies), “Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Politics,” 12:00-1:00 PM, Watson Institute, Birkelund Boardroom. RSVP to cmes@brown.edu. Seating limited.
March 7, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to all.
March 7, 2013: Undergrad student paper series. Watson Institute, Koo Library. 6:00 – 8:00 PM
March 14, 2013: MES and SAS Qahwa and Chai Open House, a coffee and tea social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to friends of MES and SAS.
March 14, 2013: Undergrad student paper series. Watson Institute, Koo Library. 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Click here for more information.
March 15, 2013: ADONIS – Reception and dinner.
March 21, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to friends of MES
March 21, 2013: Undergrad student paper series. Watson Institute, Koo Library. 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Click here for more information.
April 1, 2013: MES Lecture Series with Dana Yahalomi on “SALONS: Birthright Palestine?” Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute. 4:00 PM. Open to all.
April 3, 2013: MES Luncheon Seminar with Parmenion Papamichos Chronakis (Visiting Assistant Professor of History), “Revisiting the late Ottoman bourgeoisie. The entrepreneurs of Salonica in the Second Constitutional Period, 1908-1912,” 12:00-1:00 PM, Watson Institute, McKinney Room. Brown Community. RSVP cmes@brown.edu to attend.
April 4, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to all friends of MES.
April 4, 2013: Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series, a presentation of undergraduate research in the Birkelund Board Room at the Watson Institute. This week’s topic is Art & Revolution, and the undergraduate presenters are Spencer Parson ’13 and Aly Abouzeid ’14. 6:30-8:00PM, Birkelund Board Room, Watson Institute. Free dinner from Nice Slice will be provided.
April 5, 2013: Art and War in Iraq, a brunch and symposium on the film War and Art in Iraq. Participants must sign up separately for both events ahead of time. More information available here.
April 10, 2013: MES Lecture Series presents Hugh Roberts, Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University, speaking on“The Algerian exception, the Algerianization of North Africa and the Encirclement of Algeria.” Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute. 4:00 PM. Open to all.
April 11, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to all friends of MES.
April 11, 2013: Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series, a presentation of undergraduate research in the Birkelund Board Room at the Watson Institute. This week’s topic is Actors in the Transnational Public Sphere: Creating, Riding, or Bypassing the Wave?, and the undergraduate presenters are Julia Ellis-Kahana ’13 and Sarah Forman ’13. 6:30-8:00PM, Birkelund Board Room, Watson Institute. Free dinner from Farmstead Cheese & Appetizers will be provided.
April 17, 2013: Cancelled. MES Lecture by Nibal Thawabteh, Director of the Media Development Center at Birzeit University; Editor in Chief of Al Hal Newspaper, on “The Impact of Palestinian Media in the Region and the World: Between Reality and Perspective.” Co-sponsored by Modern Media and Culture. Birkelund Boardroom, Watson Institute. 4:00 PM. Brown Community only. RSVP cmes@brown.edu. Seating limited. (Event has been CANCELLED)
April 17, 2013: P.S. Tunisia (Personal Stories from a Revolution and its Aftermath), a lecture by 2012 Marla Rudzicka Fellow and Middle East Concentrator Rahel Dette ’13. 12:00 PM, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute.
April 18, 2013: Joint MES and SAS Qahwa and Chai Open House, a coffee and tea social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to all friends of MES and SAS.
April 18, 2013: Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series, a presentation of undergraduate research in the Birkelund Board Room at the Watson Institute. This week’s topic is Crusading as an Act of Love, and the undergraduate presenter is Patrick Meehan ’13. 6:30-8:00PM, Birkelund Board Room, Watson Institute. Free dinner from Kabob and Curry will be provided.
April 24, 2013: MES Luncheon Seminar with Palmira Brummett (Visiting Professor of History), “The Adriatic as an Ottoman Zone: Sovereignty, Cartography, and Cultural Flows in the Early Modern Era.” 12:00-1:00 PM, Watson Institute, McKinney Room. RSVP cmes@brown.edu required. Seating limited.
April 25, 2013: MES Qahwa Open House, a coffee social hour held Thursdays at 3:30-4:30 PM, Watson Institute, Koo Library. Open to all friends of MES.
April 25, 2013: Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series, a presentation of undergraduate research in the Birkelund Board Room at the Watson Institute. This week’s topic is Lost in Translation: Arabic in Poetry and Research, and the undergraduate presenters are Jonathan Batemen ’13 and Kyle Winter-Stoner ’13. 6:30-8:00PM, Birkelund Board Room, Watson Institute. Free dinner from Eastside Pockets will be provided.
April 29, 2013: MES Lecture with Amr Shalakany, Aga Khan Distinguished Visiting Professor. ‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’: Liberalism and Revolution in Modern Egypt. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute. 4:00 PM.
May 2, 2013: MES Year-End Celebration and Reception, Maddock Alumni Center. 5:30 PM. By invitation.
May 3, 2013: Aga Khan Distinguished Visiting Professor Workshop. “Law, Art and Revolution in the Middle East.” McKinney Room, Watson Institute.
May 8, 2013: MES Honors Thesis and Capstone Project Presentation at the Watson Institute, McKinney Room, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Lunch will be served. Seniors, MES faculty, and invited guests.
May 16, 2013: MES Luncheon Seminar with Watson Institute Visiting Research Fellow Assem Abu Hatab, PhD. The presentation topic is “Food Price Inflation & Political Unrest: A Case Study of the Arab Spring in Egypt”. Watson Institute, McKinney Room, 12:00 – 1 PM. Open to the Brown Community. RSVP cmes@brown.edu required.
May 17/18, 2013: Prosop: A Social Networking Tool for the Past. Digital Islamic Humanities closed workshop hosted by Middle East Studies. McKinney Room, Watson Institute. To register with organizer, email prosopworkshop@gmail. com.
