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

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3r1rb14​​​​​​​... Read more about The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Martha 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)... Read more about The Fractured Iraqi Community: Rethinking Development

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Carol 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... Read more about Can Russia Manage its New Role in the Middle East?

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Asher Orkaby, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scholar, Transregional Institute, Princeton University... Read more about The Political Economy of Humanitarian Aid in Yemen: Benefit or Detriment?

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Frederic Wehrey, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3tVTmAw​​​​​​​... Read more about What Went Wrong in Libya? Foreign Meddling and Local Agency in Libya's Civil Wars

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Gökçen Erkılıç
Visiting Researcher, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/33JP6Ji... Read more about Cartographic Narratives on Shaping the Land and Water Divide in Istanbul

Friends of Hrant Dink and CMES are proud to present the 2022 Speaker of the Hrant Dink Lectures in International Human Rights

Ayşe Buğra
Professor Emerita of Political Economy, Boğaziçi University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3nnrnpe... Read more about Thinking about Poverty and Equality from the Perspective of Human Rights

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

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/338W9Lz... Read more about Misunderstanding Mid-Century Turkey: Ottomania, Academia and the rise of Erdogan

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.
... Read more about CANCELLED: Education, Nation-Building, and Minority Groups in Turkey

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

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

Lauren Stokes
Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/31IYcF3... Read more about On Guest Workers, Migrants, and Germans of Turkish Descent: Reflections on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the German-Turkish Recruitment Agreement

The CMES Armenian Studies Lecture Series presents

Anoush Baghdassarian, Harvard Law School 3L, co-founder of ReRooted  

Ani Schug, co-founder of ReRooted

Moderator: Lisa Gulesserian, Preceptor on Armenian Language and Culture, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

This event has been postponed and will be reschedule for December 2021. Stay tuned.... Read more about POSTPONED: The ReRooted Archive: 100 Years of Syrian Armenian History