2015-16

2016 Mar 09

The Emerging Immigration and Asylum Regime in Turkey

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

Saime Ozcurumez
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School... Read more about The Emerging Immigration and Asylum Regime in Turkey

2016 Mar 08

Book talk: "The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran"

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Harvard Iranian Students Association present

Zackery M. Heern
Assistant Professor, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Department of History, Idaho State University

After the talk (5:45-6:15), Professor Heern will be selling and signing copies of The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran at the Harvard Coop in Harvard Square.... Read more about Book talk: "The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran"

2016 Mar 07

Blood Ties: Religion, Violence, and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents

İpek Kocaomer Yosmaoğlu
Assistant Professor, History, Northwestern University

İpek Yosmaoğlu (Ph.D. Princeton, 2005) is an historian of the late Ottoman Empire. She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before joining the history department at Northwestern in 2010. Her research interests include nationalism, violence, political legitimacy and state modernization. She has completed a book entitled Blood Ties:...

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2016 Mar 04

Conference on the Music of South, Central, and West Asia

Fri Mar 4 (All day) to Sun Mar 6 (All day)

Location: 

CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The South Asia Institute at Harvard, The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard, The Department of Music at Harvard, The Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Asia Center, and the Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities present

The inaugural meeting of what will be the ICTM Study Group on the Music of Greater South Asia (ICTM: International Council of Traditional Music).... Read more about Conference on the Music of South, Central, and West Asia

2016 Mar 04

The Search for Identity: Jury analysis & discussion of three recent international Saudi design competitions

3:00pm

Location: 

Gund Hall, Room 123, Harvard Graduate School of Design

MEdiNA and CMES present

Nader Ardalan
Architect

Jury analysis & discussion on possible meanings of recent international design competitions in Saudi Arabia, including the National Built Heritage Center, the Saudi Aramco Center for World Culture, and the Masjid-Al Haram Expansion in Mecca.

Nader Ardalan served on two of the above project design juries and is a recognized leader in the field of environmentally sustainable and culturally relevant design with a particular focus on the Middle East. His talk will be a jury analysis and discussion of...

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2016 Mar 03

Subterfuge and Deception in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean

Thu - Sat, Mar 3 to Mar 5, 4:00pm - 12:00pm

Location: 

CMES, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The Mediterranean Seminar and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Subterfuge and Deception in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
The Winter 2016 Workshop

Program
Thursday, March 3, 4:00 pm
“What is Mediterranean Studies and Why?”
Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder)
Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
This...

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2016 Feb 23

Intercultural Musical Explorations in ‘A Coffeehouse Opera’: Shakespeare’s Othello, an Ottoman Eunuch and Bektashi Sufism

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents

Dr. Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, Emerson College, and
Dr. Robert Labaree, New England Conservatory... Read more about Intercultural Musical Explorations in ‘A Coffeehouse Opera’: Shakespeare’s Othello, an Ottoman Eunuch and Bektashi Sufism

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