Anthropology

2016 Oct 21

A Conversation around Comparative Stigmatization-- Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

The Brazil Program, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs present a panel discussion of the new publication... Read more about A Conversation around Comparative Stigmatization-- Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel

2016 Oct 20

Theodor Herzl, Race, and Empire

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Derek PenslarDerek Penslar
The Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History, University of Toronto; Stanley Lewis Visiting Professor of Modern Israel Studies, Oxford University; Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University; designated William Lee Frost Chair in Jewish History, Harvard University as of 2018... Read more about Theodor Herzl, Race, and Empire

2016 May 04

DATE CHANGE: Sohbet-i Osmani Panel: Amr Ahmed, Günil Özlem Ayaydin Cebe, Gül Neşe Doğusan Alexander

3:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

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

The Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents

Dr. Amr Ahmed, Dr. Günil Özlem Ayaydin Cebe, & Dr. Gül Neşe Doğusan Alexander

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2016 Apr 13

Ritual (Cem), Worship-place (Cemevi), and Identity Formation: The Alevi Question of Turkey

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

Riza Yildirim
Associate Professor & Vice-chair, Department of History, TOBB University of Economics & Technology, Ankara; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of Religion, Boston University... Read more about Ritual (Cem), Worship-place (Cemevi), and Identity Formation: The Alevi Question of Turkey

2016 Mar 23

Oman, Zanzibar, and the Politics of Becoming Arab

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Room B1, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents

Mandana Limbert
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Mandana Limbert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She received her PhD in Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in 2002 and joined CUNY the same year. Her publications include her monograph In the Time of Oil (Stanford University Press, 2010), a co-edited volume Timely Assets (School 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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