12:00 noon, Thursday, April 25th
Center for the Study of the Middle East | Conference Room
Refreshments will be served.
When embattled autocrats threatened by the Arab Spring’s mobilizations turned towards their armed forces for support, the stage was set for the military elite to shape the outcome of the critical junctures in 2011. Some acted as the regime’s gravediggers when they defected whereas others tried to impede change and answered the autocrats’ call for repression. Accounting for the top brass’s divergent behavior remains one of the fundamental puzzles of the Arab Spring. To do so, I argue that it is essential to problematize the relationship between the senior officers and their subordinates, rather than to treat the officer corps, let alone the military at large, as a unified actor. Just as importantly, I maintain that institutional interactions between autocratic rulers, the military elite and the mid-ranking and junior officers, shaped by decades of coup-proofing tactics, predetermined whether the military elite had a vested interest in the status-quo and, when that was the case, the capacity to defend it. In other words, I contend that institutional legacies from the post-decolonization decades need to be reexamined for a deeper understanding of opportunities and constraints structuring the top officers’ behavior in 2011.
The three cases under study cover the whole range of combinations presented by the Arab Spring: a military elite that had the incentive, but not the capacity, to defend the status-quo (Egypt); a military elite that had both the incentive and the capacity to do so (Syria); and, finally, a military elite that had neither the incentive, nor the capacity, to keep the ruling elite in power (Tunisia). By analyzing these cases, I aim to present a theoretical framework applicable to other contexts as well, both inside and outside the Middle East.
Hicham Bou Nassif is a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department working on civil-military relations in the Arab World and on military behavior during the Arab Spring.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Woodburn Hall 008 | 4:30 PM
Edwin Brock, an archaeologist who has worked in Egypt for more than 30 years, will discuss his restoration of the granite sarcophagi that once held the mummy of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty Pharaoh Merneptah. When Merneptah was buried in the Valley of the Kings, his mummy was enclosed in a series of massive granite sarcophagi – among the most impressive ever constructed for any Egyptian royal burial. Unfortunately, the outer two sarcophagi were destroyed by a successor who wanted to take one of the inner coffins for his own burial. Over the centuries, the fragments found their way to various locations in the Valley of the Kings, but they have now been reassembled by Brock. Brock will discuss the method of reassembling the fragments; the decorative and theological program of the sarcophagus decorations; and what the project tells us about the logistics of constructing and moving the massive sarcophagi in antiquity.
Sponsors:
Ancient Studies
The Center for the Study of the Middle East
Arican Studies
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
CSME announces a lecture featuring keynote speaker
12:00 noon, Thursday, April 18th
Center for the Study of the Middle East | Conference Room
Refreshments will be served.
Dr. Lazzerini’s research has long focused on the relationship between belief and knowledge in Eurasian commentary traditions and the impact of modernity on those traditions among the Islamic communities in the Volga-Kama region of the Russian Empire between the mid-18th and early 20th centuries. He is nearing completion of a monograph that examines the path by which Tatars and Bashkirs—adherents of the Islamic canon—gradually succumb to the epistemological revolution sweeping from Europe to Russia and beyond and abandoned their most cherished traditions and practices in the name of modernity.
His talk is drawn from his forthcoming monograph.
Dr. Lazzerini is an Academic Specialist in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Director of the Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Adjunct Professor of History, and Affiliate of the Russian and East European Institute, East Asian Studies Center, and the Islamic Studies Program. He is currently serving as Executive Secretary of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, the preeminent international professional organization for the Central Eurasian region.
April 12th - April 13th, 2013
Sponsor:
The Center for the Study of the Middle East
Co-sponsors:
The Center for American and Global Security
The Center for Constitutional Democracy
IU Maurer School of Law
Saturday, April 6th, 2013
Woodburn Hall
Panels include:
The Association of Central Eurasian Students is pleased to host the 20th Annual
Central Eurasian Studies Conference at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, on
Saturday, April 6, 2013.
Some brief information about travel and accommodations in
Bloomington may be found here.
Please feel free to contact ACES by sending an email to aces[at]indiana.edu.
The Center for the Study of the Middle East invites you to attend
a lecture featuring keynote speaker
This talk is about Nehal A. Elnahrawy’s personal experience as a medical doctor
training in psychiatry in Cairo, Egypt, at the time of the 25th of January revolution.
The talk will tackle two key areas:
(1) The revolution from a group dynamics perspective: Whatever happened to the Egyptians,
in Tahrir square?
(2) Efforts of ‘Revolution Aid’ among other civil society movements/organizations in
providing relief to at least 6000 injured heroes of the revolution.
The speaker’s views were shaped by her work at a psychiatric ward and a hospital’s emergency room.
“I Am the People” or “أنا الشعب ” * is a popular patriotic Egyptian song by Om Kolthoum; who is widely regarded as the greatest female singer in Arab music history. Nehal A. Elnahrawy is a psychiatry resident at The Behman Hospital, and a master's student in general adult psychiatry at Cairo University in Egypt. She received a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery (MBBCh) from the same university in 2009. Nehal’s psychotherapy training in Cairo has focused on group therapy and creative art therapy techniques, specifically with the young and victims of trauma. She has an interest in disaster psychology motivated by her work with trauma victims and refugees in both Tunisia and Egypt. Nehal is currently a Fulbright scholar at Indiana University, studying the cultural adaptation of Functional Family Therapy for Egyptian clients working through trauma.
Events hosted at the
Indiana Memorial Union
Organizers:
Dr. Kemal Silay
Professor of Turkish Language and Literature
Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Endowed Chair Professor
Director, Turkish Language Flagship Center
Director, Turkish Studies Program
Indiana University
Dr. Tuğrul Keskin
Assistant Professor of International and Middle East Studies
Affiliated Faculty of Black Studies, Sociology, and Turkish Studies
Portland State University
International Conference hosted by the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, TURKEY.
Timeline:
4 January, 2013: Abstract Submission Deadline
11 January, 2013: Notification of authors
1 March, 2013: Deadline for papers
18-19 March, 2013: Conference
Conference supported in part
by Center for the Study of the Middle East
Nicholas Walmsley
PhD Candidate
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Indiana University
Wednesday, March 20th | 11:00 AM
Hoosier Room,
Indiana Memorial Union,
Mezzanine
The works of the fifteenth-century Central Asian statesman and poet 'Ali Shir Nava'i exist in hundreds of manuscript copies produced during the sixteenth-nineteenth centuries. Nava'i's body of work consists of some some thirty works of prose and poetry in either Persian or Chaghatay Turkic, and authorised redactions of these works still survive in manuscript form, offering what may be regarded as definitive texts or readings. Preliminary results of the examination of some of these manuscripts reveals evidence of both deliberate emendation and forced or unforced error in the reproduction of Nava'i's work. In short, the transmission of Nava'i's work is conditioned by the aesthetics of response, in which the audience helps determine the form of the text.
Sponsored by Islamic Studies.
Thursday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
Union Street Center auditorium
Come out THIS THURSDAY for the 2013 Navruz festival at IU! This year's Persian/Central Asian new
year celebration will be held at the Union Street Center auditorium in Cedar Hall
(at 10th and Union, across from Eigenmann). Persian and Central Asian music, dance, poetry, and
of course food await you!
Questions? Contact woodsmj@indiana.edu.
International Conference hosted by the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, TURKEY.
Timeline:
4 January, 2013: Abstract Submission Deadline
11 January, 2013: Notification of authors
1 March, 2013: Deadline for papers
18-19 March, 2013: Conference
Conference supported in part
by Center for the Study of the Middle East
Monday, March 5th, 11:30 AM
Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
See Flyer
The Center for the Study of the Middle East invites you to attend the
CSME Academic and Professional Lecture Series
Gülşat Aygen
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Northern Illinois University
March 4, 4:00 PM
Maple Room,
Indiana Memorial Union , Mezzanine
The Center for the Study of the Middle East will commemorate the events ten years previous with a panel on Iraq: 2003-2013. The purpose of this panel is not purely retrospective but instead to engender discussion of the future. Where is Iraq headed? How will Iraq negotiate the difficulties of the tectonic changes that are underway in the region? What are the prospects of the State of Iraq holding together? What should US and UK policy be toward Iraq as it develops?
The Center for the Study of the Middle East plans to publish material presented in conjunction with this forum.
Prof. Abbas Kadhim
Department of National Security Affairs
Naval Postgraduate School
Prof. Emma Sky
Gruber Fellow in Global Justice
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Yale University
Prof. Bassam Yousif
Department of Economics
Indiana University
Ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi
Director
Center for the Study of the Middle East
Indiana University
Dina Spechler
Department of Political Science
Indiana University
Thursday, February 21st | 4:30 PM
Sassafras Room,
Indiana Memorial Union, Mezzanine
Professor James Gustafson
Department of History
Indiana State University
See Flyer
Historians have yet to produce a detailed social and economic history of Qajar Iran (1795-1925).
A major obstacle to this is the common conception that proper source materials simply do not exist
to tackle such a monumental project. This presentation will address some of the major historiographical
issues related to the field of Qajar provincial social and economic history and stress the utility
of Persian geographical literature as a source of great significance that has yet to be systematically
explored by scholars.
The "War of Necessity" in Afghanistan and its
Unexpected Consequences
12:00 Noon, Wednesday, February 20th
Center for the Study of the Middle East
Conference Room
Refreshments will be served
The war launched by the US and her coalition partners against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was to bring peace and stability in that country and to rid the world of the menace of global terrorism. But the war also had an unmistakable cast of taking revenge. Eight years and several billion dollars later, President Obama recast the war in Afghanistan as a "War of Necessity" and intensified it by military surges, only to declare recently the end of combat for the US troops (by spring of 2013) and total withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan before the end of 2014.
The war against resurgent Taliban is to be Afghanized and US losses brought to a halt. Disillusionment with the outcome of the decade-long international intervention and uncertainty about the future grips Afghans and the peoples of the region.
How and why did the apparently well-intentioned and costly war efforts produce so little? Were these outcomes avoidable? What will be the consequences of America's longest war? What will be the fate of the region and the future of American foreign policy in the decades to come?
Thursday, February 14th | 4:00 PM
Maple Room,
Indiana Memorial Union, Mezzanine
Fred Lawson
Lynne T. White Professor of Government
Mills College
Kevin Martin
Assistant Professor
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bassam Haddad
Director
Middle East Studies Program
Assistant Professor
Department of Public and International Affairs
George Mason University
Wednesday, Feburary 13th | 7:00 PM
Dogwood Room,
Indiana Memorial Union, Mezzanine
David P. Fidler
James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law Fellow
IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research Fellow
Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Associate Fellow
Chatham House Centre on
Global Health Security Fellow
Paul Hoffman
Doctoral Student
Department of Political Science
Richard B. Miller
Professor of Religious Studies
Director of Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
Adjunct Instructor, American Studies Program
Affiliate Faculty, IU Center for Bioethics
Manjeet S. Pardesi
Doctoral Student - Department of Political Science
Thursday, February 14th | 4:00 PM
Maple Room,
Indiana Memorial Union, Mezzanine
Fred Lawson
Lynne T. White Professor of Government
Mills College
Kevin Martin
Assistant Professor
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bassam Haddad
Director
Middle East Studies Program
Assistant Professor
Department of Public and International Affairs
George Mason University
The current regime has doggedly held on to power in Syria, two years after a revolt began. Civilian casualties are estimated by the UN to have topped 60,000, yet there appears still to be no end in sight. The instability in Syria has called into question some of the national borders that were established in the Middle East after the First World War, as the Kurds of Syria weigh their options and Sunni Arabs in Iraq contemplate weakening their ties to Baghdad in favor of closer ties with Syria. Though the US has not yet intervened overtly as it did in the far less bloody revolution in Libya, implications for US policy in the region abound. The issues surrounding this human tragedy will be assessed by a group of nationally-recognized experts on Syria, drawn from across the US as well as IU.
Timothy Mitchell
Professor
Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Columbia University
Monday, February 11th
7:30 PM
University Club President's Room
Indiana Memorial Union, First Floor
Mitchell is professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures in Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. His most recent book, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, argues that no nation escapes the political consequences of our dependence on oil -- it shapes the body politic in oil-producing regions and in nations that depend heavily on oil. It examines the role played by fossil fuels, including coal, in the development of industrial democracies, along with the problems created by dependence on oil revenues in the modern-day Middle East.
Mitchell is a political theorist who studies the political economy of the Middle East, the political role of economics and other forms of expert knowledge, the politics of large-scale technical systems and the place of colonialism in the making of modernity. Educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, he completed a Ph.D. in politics and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University.
His books also include Colonising Egypt and Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. He edited the volume Questions of Modernity, which brings together the work of leading scholars of South Asia and the Middle East. He has published essays on agrarian transformation, economic reform and the politics of development, often drawing on his research in Egypt.
The annual McNutt Lecture honors Paul V. McNutt, who was dean of the Indiana University School of Law from 1925 to 1933, then became Indiana's 34th governor (1933-1937) and later served as U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, director of the Federal Security Agency and chairman of the War Manpower Commission during World War II. For more information, contact Blake Harvey at the Department of History, 812-855-3236 or blaharve@indiana.edu.
Thursday, January 31st | 12:00 Noon
Center for the Study of the Middle East
1105 E Atwater
Conference Room
Refreshments will be served
John Walbridge has extensive experience on academic publishing, having published nine books and having worked as an academic editor and member of editorial boards. He is presently Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University.
Professor Walbridge will be discussing various strategies and tools needed to successfully publish a book. This lecture may be of interest especially to Masters and PhD students who are working on a thesis or dissertation and are encouraged to attend.
Includes Free Pizza!
January 25th, 5:00 - 6:00 PM
IU Center for the Study of Global Change
Do you want to share your interest in the Arabic language with children? Do you want to get involved with your community? How about engaging with a variety of Bridges partners on and off campus? Interested? We would love to have you volunteer!
Thursday, January 24th, 4:00 PM
Persimmon Room,
Indiana Memorial Union , Mezzanine
This talk examines the pedagogical practices in an autodidactic reading circle established by liberal Muslims university students in Jakarta, Indonesia. These students champion a religious paradigm that is committed to pluralism, tolerance, religious freedom, and the removal of discrimination against women and non-Muslims. Through a discussion of various types of reading practices ("reading" the Quran versus a social text, for example), this talk analyzes how the synthesis of secular and religious knowledge results in a progressive interpretation of religion.
2007 | Directed By: Parvez Sharma
Film Not Rated | Documentary | 81 Minutes
Thursday, January 24th, 6:30 PM
Free Admission, Ticket Required,
Information Here
Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. A Jihad for Love looks beyond a war-torn present to reclaim the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, whose true meaning is akin to ‘strive in the path of God’ - allowing its subjects to move beyond the narrow concept of Jihad as holy war. (HD Cam presentation)
Director Parvez Sharma is no longer scheduled to be present at this screening. He will now be presenting a Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture in the IU Cinema on Thursday, January 31 at 3:00 pm. Click here for more information.
The screening is sponsored by the Islamic Studies Program, Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Support Services (GLBTSSS), The Kinsey Institute, and IU Cinema. Special thanks to Wafa Amayreh.
A concert featuring:
Gulrukh Shakirova,
IU Jacobs School of Music
Muparrakh Musaeva,
Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
6:30 PM
Explore Uzbek music and dance from Uzbekistan with the Uzbek Student and Scholar Association. The event will be filled with passion and the spirit of the culture of Uzbekistan. Come and increase your awareness of the different cultures of Uzbekistan. Delicious food from Anatolia restaurant will be served.
Sponsored in part by the Center for the Study of the Middle East
December 4, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Indiana Memorial Union, Mezzanine Level
The world has seen an increase in the number of peacekeeping operations in the past two decades. Many of these international efforts have been supported by the armed forces of the United States, especially by officers in the respective Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps of the different services. US JAG officers, for instance, have been deployed in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In this Workshop, a select group of senior US Air Force and Canadian JAG officers, faculty from Indiana University, and a representative of the International Development Law Organization will consider the success and failures of peacekeeping and Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations. The goal of the Workshop is to prepare for a larger Symposium of JAG officers to be held in the summer of 2013, including planning the subject-matter, agenda, and other details for the Symposium. The Workshop is hosted by the IU Center for the Study of the Middle East and co-sponsored by the IU Center for American and Global Security.
Attendance by Invitation Only; Not Open to the Public
Hosted by the Indiana University
Center for the Study of the Middle East
Co-sponsored by the
Center for American and Global Security
Akiko Sumi on the Translation of the 101 Nights
When:
Monday, December 3 | 12:00 Noon
Where:
Center for the Study of the Middle East
1105 E Atwater
Conference Room
What:
The CSME lecture series at Indiana University is a program driven by the students’ areas of interests in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Near East as well as requests for lectures focused on professional experience and career development. Professor Akiko Sumi, of Kyoto Notre Dame University, is a visiting scholar to IU Bloomington this semester.
Abstract:
Prof. Sumi will address the issues and challenges of translating the Arabic folkloric narrative The Hundred and One Nights, which is considered part of the collection of The Thousand and One Nights. Through her experience of publishing the Japanese translation of The Hundred and One Nights in 2011, Professor Sumi will discuss the purpose of the translation, its intended readers, and factors both inside the text, e.g., proper nouns and stock phrases, and outside the text, e.g., the editor, parallel texts, and the function of notes.
Dr. Homaira Azim on Shari'a and Human Dissection
When:
Thursday, November 29 | 2:00 PM
Where:
Center for the Study of the Middle East
1105 E Atwater
Conference Room
What:
The CSME lecture series at Indiana University is a program driven by the students’ areas of interests in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Near East as well as requests for lectures focused on professional experience and career development. Dr. Homaira M Azim, Adjunct Lecturer of Human Anatomy at IUPUC and Professor of Gross Anatomy at Kabul Medical University is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Middle East (CSME) at Indiana University.
Human dissection for educational purposes is identified as non-contradictory with the Islamic Shari ’a. Besides, the strong necessity of this practice has been widely recognized in the world of Islamic jurisprudence. Human dissection for the purpose of advancing medical knowledge has been a focus of debates throughout the history of medicine. Injudiciously, dissecting human cadavers for teaching of human anatomy has been called in violation with Shari’a and therefore banned in Afghanistan since 1992. This paper comparatively examines various Islamic jurisprudential perspectives regarding permissibility of human dissection both in historical and contemporary contexts. It also probes the place of this practice in tackling with the fundamental values of biomedical ethics and Islamic biomedical ethics in particular. Furthermore, survey results of 65 medical schools operating within all member states of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have been reviewed. The single most significant outcome emerging from the data is that human dissection is commonly practiced by medical schools in all Muslim countries with the only exception of Afghanistan which continues to outlaw this practice. This research work provides the basis of an argumentation to advocate for reinstituting the practice of human dissection for teaching purposes in Afghanistan’s medical schools after 20 years suspension.
2013 IU Delegation to the Model Arab League
When:
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 – 4:00 p.m.
Where:
Center for the Study of the Middle East
1105 E Atwater
Conference Room
What:
Please attend to learn more about the 2013 Ohio Model Arab League and confirm your interest in participating.
Learn more about institutional support for students attending this coming year’s Model Arab League. Those interested should plan to attend this meeting and/or contact CSME directly (csme@indiana.edu) as soon as possible. Funding is contingent on student interest and may include partial or full travel funding.
The dates for the 2013 Ohio Model Arab League at Miami University in Oxford, OH are February 21-23, 2013. A student delegation from Indiana University Bloomington has been invited to participate in this one-of-a-kind event.
From Miami University:
Events over the past 18 months in the Middle East have propelled the politics of the region and its relationship with the U.S. into the national consciousness. It is an exciting and anxious time, and it is essential that students from across the disciplinary spectrum be exposed to the underlying causes and effects of the Arab spring. Through the Model Arab League, students get a chance to dig deep into the unique character of not only the country they will represent, but also the realities and myths of the region and its relationship with the world. By role-playing as foreign diplomats, students step out of their own predispositions about another culture to explore why and how particular decisions are made. And through vibrant and dynamic debate, students build essential leadership skills from public speaking and concise writing, to compromise and diplomacy, to budgeting time and leading a meeting.
November 7, 4:30 PM
State Room West
Indiana Memorial Union, Second Floor
Professor Belnap will discuss the student implications of the recent report on Middle East Language Learning in Higher Education. His talk will focus on the student side, specifically what it takes for students to get to higher levels of proficiency. This talk is informed by recent and interesting research on this topic as part of Project Perseverance.
R. Kirk Belnap, Professor
Professor of Arabic, Brigham Young University
Director, National Middle East Language Resource Center
Wednesday, October 31st, 11:00 AM
CSME House
105 E Atwater
Bloomington IN 47401-3701
Conference Room
Refreshments will be served
Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi will be speaking about his experience working with the United Nations as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Iraq.
Ambassador Istrabadi was principal legal drafter of the Iraqi interim constitution of 2004. Based on his experiences in post-2003 Iraq, he focuses his research on constitutional issues, problems in engendering rule-of-law institutions, and post-conflict justice issues in the Middle East. Ambassador Istrabadi lectures often at universities and policy institutes, and he appears frequently in national and international media.
Amb. Istrabadi is the founding director of the Indiana University Center for the Study of the Middle East, a Title VI NationalResource Center. He is also University Scholar in International Law and Diplomacy, with his academic appointment in the Maurer School of Law. An alumnus of Indiana University, Istrabadi was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations in 2004.
The first School of Journalism faculty lectureship speakers, Rajiv Chandrasekaran will talk at 6:30 p.m. in the Ernie Pyle Hall auditorium. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has served as national editor and as an assistant managing editor.
Previously, he was the Post’s bureau chief in Baghdad, where he was responsible for covering the reconstruction of Iraq and supervising a team of Post correspondents. He also was the newspaper’s bureau chief in Cairo and was a correspondent in Southeast Asia.
From 2009-11, Chandrasekaran reported on the war in Afghanistan and relied on that experience in writing his new book, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. He also is author of the award-winning Imperial Life in the Emerald City, an account of the American effort to reconstruct Iraq.
This talk is sponsored in part by the Center for the Study of the Middle East
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Dogwood Room
Indiana Memorial Union, Mezzanine Level
Timor Sharan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at University of Exeter (UK). His research examines the political economy of ‘networked state’ in post-2001 Afghanistan. Mr. Sharan has worked for over four years in different donor agencies and policy organizations in Afghanistan including USAID and DFID. At his recent job, Mr. Sharan was employed as a Senior Political Adviser on a USAID project to evaluate the current state of political entities in Afghanistan in the lead up to the 2014 elections.
Hosted at Indiana University
Conference Activities to take place
in the Indiana Memorial Union
War, Terror, Demography, and Ideologies
Conflict Management and State Formation
in the Central Asian Republics and Afghanistan
The Satire and Commentary of Molla Nasraddin
4:15 PM to 5:15 PM
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union
Monday, October 8
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Maple Room
Indiana Memorial Union, Mezzanine Level
5:00-6:30 PM
Maple Room
Indiana Memorial Union, Mezzanine Level
Dr. Al-Batal is associate professor of Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and director of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) at The University of Texas at Austin. During his short trip to Indiana University, Professor Al-Batal will present two lectures.
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Grand Hall of the
Neal-Marshall Black Cultural Center
Come celebrate Turkish culture along with the Turkish Student Association and the IU Community! See flyer for full list of sponsors.
Asma Afsaruddin
Gordon Newby
Emory University
Wednesday, September 12
5:30 PM
State Room West
Indiana Memorial Union
Islam began in an age in which many thought that the end of the world was near. From well before the birth of Muhammad in 570 C.E. through the beginnings of Islam in 610 C.E. to 628 C.E., the Roman (Byzantine) and Persian (Sassanian) empires waged inconclusive but devastating wars throughout the Eastern Mediterranean world. All of Arabia was caught up in the conflict as Arabs were camel cavalry for both sides and were subjects of imperial ideologies and religious proselytization. The international trade that had brought wealth to the tribes and towns along Arabia’s trade routes was in shambles, and many expected that those terrible events presaged the end of the world. It is little wonder that apocalyptic writing was one of the most popular genres of this age. In this talk, Prof. Newby will survey apocalyptic ideas in the East Mediterranean from Bar Kochba and the Jewish-Roman wars to Yûsuf Dhû-Nuwâs, the last Jewish king in Arabia before the rise of Islam. The bookend figures, Bar Kochba and Yûsuf Dhû-Nuwâs, were failed messianic figures who came to be understood as pre-figuring the “real” messianic figure, who would usher in the end-time. This failure of messianism heightens and intensifies the anticipation of a messiah-figure, which helps shape the reception of the Islamic message. He will then explore how the Qur’an recasts late antique apocalyptic arguments as part of Islam’s dual message of apocalyptic urgency and anxiety-reducing certainty.
Indiana University Willkie Auditorium
150 N. Rose Street
The 20th Anniversary of the Silk Road Bayram
Celebration of the Dances, Music and the
Arts of the Silk Road People
With music and dances from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Eastern Europe, East Turkistan, Middle East, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan
Lecture:
Professor Padraic Kenney
Swain Hall West Room 220
Prof. Padraic Kenney
Director of the Russian East European Institute
Director of the Polish Studies Center
Department of History
Indiana University
Fine Arts Building Room 102
The SWSEEL Strategic Languages and Cultures Seminar will present a panel on national fellowships for research and study abroad (Fulbright, Boren, Gilman, Critical Languages Program, etc.).
Professor Rob Babcock (Hastings College), Anthony Koliha (former Director of the Fulbright Program in Russia), and Paul Fogleman (from the IU Office of the Vice President for International Affairs) will be discussing types of fellowships available and the application and selection processes. Dr. Ari Stern-Gottschalk will moderate the panel and is happy to receive your questions in advance.
Discussion and Film Screening at IU Cinema:
Ari Folman in Conversation with Josh Malitsky, 3 PM
Film Screening, 7 PM
Film Screening:
Ballantine Hall Room 237
A smart, slapstick comedy, Chris Morris’ Four Lions takes aim at Jihadi suicide bombers and illuminates the war on terror through satire and farce. Follow five inept aspiring terrorists on their quest to attack, and see how they demonstrate that although terrorism may be about ideology, but it can also be about incompetence and idiocy.
Come celebrate the Central Asian New Year!
3:30 – 5:00pm
at Whittenberger Auditorium, IMU
Concert featuring Uyghur singer
Ayxigul Muhammed
With performances by members of the IU
and Bloomington communities
Reception to follow, 5:00 – 7:00pm
Film Screening:
Director Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when a British- and American-backed coup removed the democratically elected government. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, the film weaves together the stories of four individual women during those traumatic days, whose experiences are shaped by their faith and the social structures in place. Neshat explores the social, political, and psychological dimensions of her characters as they meet in a metaphorical garden, where they can exist and reflect while the complex intellectual and religious forces shaping their world linger in the air around them.
(35mm presentation, Persian language with English subtitles)
Tenth Annual Victor Danner Memorial Lecture
University Club
President's Room
Indiana Memorial Union
Our guest lecturer will be Wael Hallaq, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, from Columbia University. His lecture will be "The Islamic State and Moral Philosophy: Engaging Post-Modernity."
Swain Hall Room 105
Meir Litvak is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern History, Director of the Center for Iranian Studies, and a senior research fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. Professor Litvak received his Ph.D in 1991 from Harvard University. His fields of expertise are Modern Shi‘i and Iranian History and modern Islamic movements. He is the author (with Esther Webman), of the award-winning book From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust (Columbia/Hurst, 2009) and "Israel and Antisemitism," in Albert Lindemann and Richard Levy (eds.), Anti-Semitism: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
A Lecture by Elizabeth Rauh
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Indiana University Art Museum
A Lecture by Juan Cole
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Indiana University Art Museum
Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor
Professor Christiane Gruber,
Associate Professor of Islamic Art
University of Michigan
Mathers Museum of World Cultures
416 N Indiana Ave
US, Israeli, and Palestinian scholars address the terms of engagement that emerged and diverged in the occupied/disputed/contested city of Jerusalem.
Sponsors:
Center for the Study of the Middle East
Borns Jewish Studies Program
College of Arts and Sciences Themester
President's Room - University Club
Indiana Memorial Union
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This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana University
Dr. Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Erik Bleich, Middlebury College
Dr. Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York
Dr. Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Rutgers University
Dr. Gamal Gasim, Grand Valley State University
Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College
Dr. Paul Gronke, Reed College
Dr. Justin Gest, Harvard University
Dr. Timothy Hellwig, Indiana University
West European Studies
Center for the Study of the Middle East
Department of Political Science
Department of Near East Languages
and Culture
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