The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Hasan Hüseyin Güneş
Associate Professor of Ottoman History, Department of History, University of Bartın... Read more about Ottoman Rāfiḍī Narratives: Building a Common Discourse in Genre-Specific Incompatibility

**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2024**

The CMES Director's Series presents a book talk with

Hayrettin Yücesoy
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES); Director of Graduate Studies; Resident Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Humanities (Spring 2024), Washington University, St Louis

Discussants: Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Huseyin Yilmaz, Associate Professor, History and History of Art, George Mason University

Cengiz Sisman, Professor of History, University of Houston

... Read more about **POSTPONED** Book talk: "Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought"

In honor of the recent publication of the English edition of The Ottoman Scientific Heritage by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, translated by Maryam Patton, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation are hosting a two-day symposium on April 26-27, 2024 at Harvard University.... Read more about The Ottoman Scientific Heritage: Past, Present, and Future

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Dr. Handan Karakas Demir
Visiting Fellow, Center for MIddle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Hearing the Unseen: Mapping Auditory Boundaries of the Ottoman Soundscape through Investigation of Murder Cases

This in-person event is part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Civil Discourse Initiative and is open to Harvard ID holders. It will be livestreamed and available for viewing on the WCFIA YouTube Channel.

The panel will focus on how leading social scientists conceptualize, measure, and study key forms of prejudice in the US context, focusing specifically on antisemitism and Islamophobia. The event will bring together top scholars who are at the forefront of studying these important and pernicious phenomena using rigorous, evidence-based data, methods, and sources. 

Speakers
Jeffrey Kopstein, Director, Center for Jewish Studies; Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine. 

Nazita Lajevardi, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University.

Kassra A.R. Oskooii, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware. 

Sabine von Mering, Director, Center for German and European Studies; Professor of German and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University. 

Chair
Eric Beerbohm, Professor of Government; Director, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.

Moderator
Melani Cammett, Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.... Read more about Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism and Islamophobia