Middle East and North Africa Workshop

Fall 2010

October 25: Claire Marynower, visiting scholar, Sciences Po, Paris, Department of History. Paper title: "The Shuyukh's Comrades: Left-wing Activism and the 'Ulama Association in Colonial Oran, 1920-30s"

November 8: Soraya Batmanghelichi, MESAAS. Working Title: Revolutions and Rough Cuts: Conceptualizing Women's Bodies in Contemporary Iran

December 6: Jared Manasek, Department of History, who will present a selection from his (working titled) dissertation "The Uses of Displacement: Ottoman-Habsburg Diplomacy and Refugee Aid in the Balkans, 1875-1878"