MAMEIS
Calendar of Events
Upcoming Middle East and Islamic Studies events around the Midwest.
Check back for frequent updates and please share any events you would like to see added to this calendar.
Conversations on Europe. "Sovereignty in the Imperial Mediterranean: The Case of Tunisea."
Dec 5th, 2013. 4-5:30PM. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Professor Lewis will draw heavily from her new book, Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881-1938,(University of California Press, 2013) in her Conversations on Europe talk.
Speaker: Mary Lewis, professor of history, Harvard University
http://www.ii.umich.edu/cmenas/events
Workshop Fall 2013 Indiana Seminar in Arabic Poetry and Theory
Dec 6th-7th, 2013. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
*All activities and presentations are conducted completely in Arabic. All events are free and open to the public.
All venues are fully accessible—contact NELC at nelc@indiana.edu if you need accessibility information.
Director: Professor Suzanne Stetkevych, Indiana University
Associate Director: Prof. Hussain Abulfaraj, King Abulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
http://www.indiana.edu/~nelc/events/arabiclit.shtml
ASP Lecture. "Between Religious and Secular: Impact of the 1908 Revolution on Religious Politics in the Ottoman Empire."
Dec 12th, 2013. 4-6PM. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
The lecture deals with the ways in which the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 led to changes in the dynamics of power among non-Muslim religious communities of the Ottoman Empire. It will demonstrate the ways in which the revolution influenced ecclesiastic politics in Istanbul, Mount Lebanon, and Jerusalem.
Speaker: Bedross Der Matossian, assistant professor of history, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
http://www.ii.umich.edu/cmenas/events
Art Exhibit: Culture and Spirituality in the Art of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia
Jan 17th, 2013 09:00 AM - Feb 17th, 2013 04:30 PM. University of Louisville, Louisville KY
The exhibition of over 100 works of art and artifacts includes a wide variety of textiles, and examples of craftwork in leather, metal, glass, jewelry, felt, stone and clay.
http://louisville.edu/meis/events.html
