History

2022 Feb 24

The Kurds, Imperial Dynamics, and Inter-Imperial Spaces (12th-19th Centuries)

11:00am to 12:00pm

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The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents

Hamit Bozarslan
Director of Studies, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Please note: the 1st hour of this talk (10-11am) will be the launch of The Cambridge History of the Kurds with the editors, including Prof Bozarslan.

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2022 Feb 24

Book launch & panel discussion: "The Cambridge History of the Kurds"

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

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The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents the launch of 

The Cambridge History of the Kurds with editors

Hamit Bozarslan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Cengiz Güneş (The Open University, Milton Keynes), and Veli Yadirgi (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Please note: the Editors will speak for the 1st hour of this event. From 11am-12pm, Hamit Bozarslan will give a talk entitled, The Kurds, Imperial Dynamics, and Inter-Imperial Spaces (12th-19th Centuries); click here for more information.

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2022 Feb 07

The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past

4:00pm to 5:30pm

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Liora Halperin
Associate Professor of International Studies and History and Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Israel Studies, University of Washington

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2022 Mar 10

The Fractured Iraqi Community: Rethinking Development

4:30pm to 6:00pm

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The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Martha MyersMartha Myers
International and Humanitarian Development Assistance Professional & Former Chief of Party, Iraqi Durable Communities and Economic Opportunity Project, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

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2022 Apr 07

Can Russia Manage its New Role in the Middle East?

4:30pm to 6:00pm

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The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Carol R. Saivetz, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, MIT Security Studies Program; Research Associate, Davis Center, Harvard University

Discussant: Mark N. Katz, Ph.D., Professor of Government and Politics, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

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2022 Feb 24

The Political Economy of Humanitarian Aid in Yemen: Benefit or Detriment?

2:00pm to 3:30pm

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The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Asher Orkaby, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scholar, Transregional Institute, Princeton University

Discussant: Afrah Nasser, Yemen Researcher, Human Rights Watch

** PLEASE NOTE: this talk will now take place from 2-3:30pm ET **

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2022 Jan 27

Misunderstanding Mid-Century Turkey: Ottomania, Academia and the rise of Erdogan

4:30pm to 6:00pm

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CMES & WCFIA present the Middle East Seminar with

Nicholas Danforth, Ph.D.
Senior Non-Resident Fellow, The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy  (ELIAMEP)

Discussant: Dr. Jesse Howell, Academic Programs Manager and Associate Director of the MA Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

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2021 Dec 13

CANCELLED: Education, Nation-Building, and Minority Groups in Turkey

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Tuğba Bozçağa
Lecturer in Politics (Political Methodology), King's College London; Fellow, Harvard University Middle East Initiative

Discussant: Aytuğ Şaşmaz, Post-doctoral fellow, Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

Due to illness, this event has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for spring semester.
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2021 Dec 09

Twice Displaced: Syrian Armenian Stories of Resettlement and Revival in Armenia and Abroad

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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The CMES Armenian Studies Lecture Series presents

Rebecca L. Thomas, MSW, PhD
Professor and Director, Center for International Social Work Studies, University of Connecticut School of Social Work

Anoush Baghdassarian, Harvard Law School 3L; co-founder of ReRooted, a Syrian-Armenian Archive

Ani Schug, co-founder of ReRooted, a Syrian-Armenian Archive

Watch a recording of this event: https://bit.ly/3mfE2Kl

Syria provided a refuge for Ottoman Armenians fleeing the violence in their ancestral villages during the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. The Syrian Armenian community grew and... Read more about Twice Displaced: Syrian Armenian Stories of Resettlement and Revival in Armenia and Abroad

2021 Nov 19

On Guest Workers, Migrants, and Germans of Turkish Descent: Reflections on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the German-Turkish Recruitment Agreement

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conversation moderated by Cemal Kafadar with

Lauren Stokes
Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

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