Upcoming Events
Recent Events
Phenomenology of Islamic Prayer
April 26, 2013 9:00am to 6:45pm in 509 Knox Hall
Led by
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
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Armenian Center Book Reading
March 12, 2013 7:30pm in 602 Hamilton Hall
Reading by
Aris Janigian
from his novel
This Angelic Land
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MESAAS Graduate Student Conference
February 28–March 1, 2013
Keynote Address by
Prof. Frederick Cooper, History, NYU
"Paradigmatic Conflict and Crisis"
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MESAAS Open House
March 7, 2013, 4:00-6:00pm, 403 Knox Hall
For Prospective MESAAS Students & Students interested in our Senior Thesis Program & SUMMER FUNDING
Refreshments will be served
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MESAAS Department Colloquium
December 6, 2012, 4:10pm, 208 Knox Hall
Prof. Lila Abu-Lughod, Anthropology and IRWAG
"Literary Trafficking: Moral Authority in the Crusade for Muslim Women"
Paper available in the MESAAS Office. Please join us from 4:10 - 6 pm for discussion.
Armenian Center Lecture
November 30, 2012, 7:00pm, Faculty House
Prof. Sergio La Porta, California State University, Fresno, Armenian Studies
"Networks of Knowledge: Communication and Identity in 12th-14th Century Armenia"
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Maison Française Conference
November 14, 2012, 6:00pm, East Gallery, Buell Hall
Moderator, Prof. Madeleine Dobie, French
"Algeria, History and Historiography"
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MESAAS Department Lecture
*Room Change-509 Knox Hall*
November 14, 2012, 7:00pm, 509 Knox Hall
Prof. Armen Marsoobian, MESAAS
"The Armenian Genocide and its Aftermath: Poetry, Cinema, and a Painter's Life"
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MESAAS Department Colloquium
November 8, 2012, 4:10pm, 208 Knox Hall
Prof. Hamid Dabashi, MESAAS
"Montage, Polyfocality, and Poetic Implosion: Cinematic Allegories from Ferdowsi to Kurosawa"
Paper available in the MESAAS Office. Please join us from 4:10 - 6 pm for discussion.
MESAAS Department Colloquium
October 18, 2012, 4:10pm, 208 Knox Hall
Prof. Manan Ahmed, History
"The Long Thirteenth Century of the Chachnama"
Paper available in the MESAAS Office. Please join us from 4:10 - 6 pm for discussion.
MESAAS Department Colloquium
September 20, 2012, 4:10pm, 208 Knox Hall
Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, MESAAS
"Reading Ibn Khaldun in Kampala"
Paper available in the MESAAS Office. Please join us from 4:10 - 6 pm for discussion.
Maison Française
September 17, 2012, 6pm, East Gallery, Buell Hall
Prof. Anouar Benmalek, MESAAS
"What a strange idea: to be a writer in the Arab world!."
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MESAAS Department Colloquium
April 19, 2012, 4:10pm, 208 Knox Hall
Prof. Alan Verskin, MESAAS
"Hijra (sacred migration) in the
Maghribi legal tradition."
Paper available in the MESAAS Office. Please join us from 4:10 - 6 pm for discussion.
Center for Palestine Studies Conference
April 13, 2012, 501 Schermerhorn Hall
Keynote: Prof. Rashid Khalidi (Religion) and Prof. Khaled Hroub (Cambridge)
"The Arab Revolts: Causes, Dynamics, Effects"
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MESAAS Department Colloquium
March 29, 2012, 4:10pm, 208 Knox Hall
Lena Meari, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia
"Sumud:
A Philosophy of Confronting Interrogation in Colonial Palestine."
Paper available in the MESAAS Office. Please join us from 4:10 - 6 pm for discussion.
Public Lecture
March 29, 2012, 6:30pm, 207 Knox Hall
Prof. Noha Radwan, Arabic and Comparative Literature, UC Davis
"The Poetics of Dissent in Modern Egyptian Literature."
Moderated by Professor Joseph Massad, Columbia University
