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Houssem Chachia

Former Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow Houssem Eddine Chachia Wins Sheikh Zayed Book Award

April 12, 2024

Houssem Eddine Chachia, the inaugural Hazem Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, has been awarded the the 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Young Author category for his work Al Mashhad al-Moriski: Sardiyat al-Tard fi al-Fikr al-Espani (The Morisco Landscape Narratives of Expulsion in Modern Spanish Thought). The book sheds light on the expulsion of the Moriscos who had remained in Spain, addressing its socio-cultural dimensions, and exploring the relation between memory and historic identity. Chachia, now an...

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2024 Apr 19

Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies: Annual Conference on Political Economy of the Muslim World

(All day)

Location: 

TSAI Auditorium, (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS) presents a workshop and conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World

Organizing committee: Melani Cammet (Harvard), Asim Khwaja (Harvard), Timur Kuran (Duke), and Tarek Masoud (Harvard)

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2024 Apr 26

The Ottoman Scientific Heritage: Past, Present, and Future

Fri - Sat, Apr 26 to Apr 27, 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Location: 

See locations below

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

2024 May 01

Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism and Islamophobia

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; and online

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

2024 Apr 17

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ethno-Religious Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Case of the Adana Massacres of 1909

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Rm 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund, The Mashtots Chair of Armenian Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations present

Bedross Der Matossian
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2024 Apr 25

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

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

**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

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