# Conferences & Workshops ## expand\_more Each year, CMES sponsors a number of conferences and workshops related to the research interests of our faculty, students and associates. ## About CMES Events Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications. Please also see Harvard University's [resources and guidelines](https://www.harvard.edu/visit/) for visitors to campus. ## Academic Year 2024–25 [### African Landscape Architectures: Alternative Futures for the Field ](/event/african-landscape-architectures-alternative-futures-field?occ_id=0)Mar. 6 - Mar 7, 2025 | 12:15PM - 5:00PM EST | Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 In Person The GSD Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of African and African American Studies present a conference "The African Landscape Architectures" conference brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent... event [### Disaster Analytics, Hermeneutics, Poetics and Pedagogies: Building Disaster Studies, Remooring Academia ](/event/disaster-analytics-hermeneutics-poetics-and-pedagogies-building-disaster-studies-remooring?occ_id=0)March 28, 2025 | 5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT | CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Rm, S020, Concourse level, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 In Person The Disaster Studies Initiative at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Kim Fortun Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine Kim Fortun is a Professor in the University of California Irvine (UCI)... ![Burning of the Old Seraglio, Constantinople](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/H3K1B6.jpg?itok=c_05sKXp) [### Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity (Day 1) ](/event/disasters-and-middle-east-event-place-intensity?occ_id=0)March 29, 2025 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM EDT | CGIS South Bldg, Tsai Auditorium, Concourse level, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 In Person The Disaster Studies Initiative at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity Foregrounding the Middle East and North Africa in scholarly discourse on disasters, the Disaster... ![Burning of the Old Seraglio, Constantinople](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/H3K1B6.jpg?itok=c_05sKXp) [### Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity (Day 2) ](/event/disasters-and-middle-east-event-place-intensity-day-2?occ_id=0)March 30, 2025 | 10:00AM - 5:15PM EDT | CGIS South Bldg, Rm S020, Belfer Case Study Rm, Concourse level, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 In Person The Disaster Studies Initiative at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity Foregrounding the Middle East and North Africa in scholarly discourse on disasters, the Disaster... ![Burning of the Old Seraglio, Constantinople](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/H3K1B6.jpg?itok=c_05sKXp) [### Rupture and Repair: Towards a Critical Phenomenology of Disaster ](/event/rupture-and-repair-towards-critical-phenomenology-disaster?occ_id=0)March 30, 2025 | 3:30PM - 5:00PM EDT | CGIS South Bldg, Rm S020, Belfer Case Study Rm, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 In Person The Disaster Studies Initiative at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Aidan Seale-Feldman Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame Abstract: What does a disaster generate? Anthropologists... ![Burning of the Old Seraglio, Constantinople](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/H3K1B6.jpg?itok=c_05sKXp) [### New Approaches to Palestinian History ](/event/new-approaches-palestinian-history?occ_id=0)April 11, 2025 | 10:00AM - 3:45PM EDT | Sever Hall, Rm 113 In Person The Harvard History Department and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a symposium "New Approaches to Palestinian History" Registration required: register here (limited to the Harvard community). 10:00am-11:15am, Keynote address Beshara Doumani... ![Palestinian family portrait in the 19th century](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/PalHistorySympApr_11.png?itok=Z00E66tC) ## Archive [View past conferences and workshops.](/calendar/past_events)