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April 2018
AVACGIS Visiting Scholar Presentations with Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande and Sami Erdem
Join us for a brown bag lunch as we close the semester with presentations by two of our current Visiting Scholars Ms. Raissa Von Doetinchem de Rand (Princeton University) "Greek Thought and the Limits…
Find out more »May 2018
What Next? States, Conflicts, and Policy in the Middle East
Register/RSVP at meis@gmu.edu Symposium Schedule 12:00 pm Welcome Remarks by Dean Mark Rozell, Jack Goldstone, Bassam Haddad Moderated by Justin Gest and Nadya Sbaiti 12:05 - 1:15 Panel 1: Ongoing Conflicts in the Middle East…
Find out more »33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
Call for Proposals We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle East from the sixth century c.e. to the present day, including but not limited…
Find out more »World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean
About the Exhibit Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the Swahili coast has been a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence for over one millennium. For centuries, peoples from the Arabian…
Find out more »Summer School of Kurdish Studies
Sponsored by Zahra Institute May 25-29, 2018 Venue: University of Chicago, Cobb Lecture Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL www.zahrainstitute.org Students and professionals interested in Kurdish language and culture are invited to participate in…
Find out more »June 2018
Political Theory and the Question of Religion
Convenor: Zubair Ahmad, BGSMCS, Freie Universität Contact: zubair@zedat.fu-berlin.de In her recently published book, Liberalism’s Religion (2017), political and legal theorist Cécile Laborde reflects on the “foundational issues about the place of religion in liberal political theory.” In…
Find out more »OSMANLI’DA İLM-İ TEFSİR SEMPOZYUMU
Ottoman Tafsīr: Scholars, Works, Problems The established understanding dominant in academic studies on Islamic culture and civilization is based on the assumption that Islamic thought had lost its productivity since the Middle Ages. As a…
Find out more »The Army, the Economy, and Discontent in Egypt
About the Lecture From a political economy approach, this talk follows how Egypt’s military institution has been visibly, or often invisibly, controlling the economy and state in the past three decades. Uniquely in its regional…
Find out more »Call for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference
Call for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference: China and West Asia: Economic Development; and Social and Political Cooperation Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University Cappadocia - TURKEY June 20-22, 2018 Organized by Nevsehir…
Find out more »Sasanian Sacred Iconography after the Sasanians
About the Lecture How are we to understand motifs created after the Islamic conquest that refer to Sasanian sacred iconography? Images with Zoroastrian connotations were commissioned and used by non-Zoroastrians in the centuries immediately after…
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