The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Tuna Şare Ağtürk
Hilles Bush Fellow, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Classical Archaeology and Art History, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey... Read more about Urban Archaeology and Classical Heritage in Turkey: Uncovering the lost Roman capital city of Nicomedia

CMES is pleased to present the 2019 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture 
with

Herbert C. Kelman
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Emeritus, Harvard University

Please note: This event has been CANCELLED, due to unforeseen circumstances. It will be rescheduled.... Read more about **CANCELLED** A Conversation with Herbert Kelman: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict as a Clash of National Identities: A Path to Reconciliation

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Mecca: The Lived City, a colloquium examining the ways in which the city of Mecca is imagined, remembered, represented, and visualized from the perspectives of history, literature, landscape architecture, and urban planning.... Read more about Mecca: The Lived City

The CMES Book Talk Series presents

Hiba Bou Akar
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University... Read more about Book talk: For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers

SoArt (Social Art) is an organization that brings together Young Iranian artists, and the way they share their vision of social change through art. Works from 50 Iranian artists will be on display May 3-August 27 in the CGIS South Concourse....

The Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Soli Özel
Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul; columnist for Habertürk daily newspaper

Ayşen Candaş
Rice Faculty Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor, Yale MacMillan Center, Council on Middle Eastern Studies, Yale University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Bogazici University, Istanbul... Read more about Patrimonial Empire-Building and the case of Authoritarian Turkey

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Betül Ekşi
Robert G. James Scholar Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern University... Read more about Flowers, Tough Guys, and TOMAs: Police Masculinities and Political Transition in Turkey

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Anver Emon
Professor of Law and History; Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law; Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto Faculty of Law... Read more about Islamic legalities across the longue durée: A preliminary historical epistemology of Islamic law

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies warmly welcome you to the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture featuring

Nadia Murad
2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Admission is free. Tickets required.
Limit of 2 per person.

Available by phone and online (for a fee) and in person at the Harvard Box Office, Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, beginning Thursday, March 28 at 12:00pm EST.... Read more about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad in Conversation with Jennifer Leaning

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Gulay Yilmaz
Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Ottoman History, Department of History, Akdeniz University... Read more about Rethinking Recruited Children: Body Politics of the Devshirme System in the Ottoman Empire