The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Burcu Kütükçüoğlu
Visiting Scholar, CMES; Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Istanbul Bilgi University; Part-time Instructor, Boston Architectural College

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3tUklvR​​​​​​​... Read more about Contemporary Architecture and the Cultural Landscapes of the Mediterranean: A Critical Look at the Case of Anatolia

The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series is pleased to present

Cevat Dargın
Postgraduate research associate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3wPzvEA​​​​​​​... Read more about Rebellion as Myth in State Making and State Evasion: The Case of Dersim Across Ottoman Empire and The Republic of Turkey (1878-1938)

CMES and the CMES Middle East Foruem are pleased to present

Ahmad Mohammadpour  
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology, Troy University, and
 
Dilan Okcuoglu
M. Barzani Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Global Kurdish Studies, School of International Service, American University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3NeVU3X... Read more about De-development, Political Violence, and Informal Control: The Kurds in Iran and Turkey

The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents

Faisal Husain
Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3vcrdWv​​​​​​​... Read more about The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Kurdish History

The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents

Marlene Schäfers
Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology, University of Utrecht

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3BNUzvx... Read more about Voicing Kurdish History

The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents

Zozan Pehlivan
Environmental historian, University of Minnesota

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3v5cahj​​​​​​​
... Read more about Writing the History of Ottoman Kurdistan from an Environmental Perspective

The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents

Hamit Bozarslan
Director of Studies, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Please note: the 1st hour of this talk (10-11am) will be the launch of The Cambridge History of the Kurds with the editors, including Prof Bozarslan.

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3gw5Zue... Read more about The Kurds, Imperial Dynamics, and Inter-Imperial Spaces (12th-19th Centuries)

The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents the launch of 

The Cambridge History of the Kurds with editors

Hamit Bozarslan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Cengiz Güneş (The Open University, Milton Keynes), and Veli Yadirgi (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Please note: the Editors will speak for the 1st hour of this event. From 11am-12pm, Hamit Bozarslan will give a talk entitled, The Kurds, Imperial Dynamics, and Inter-Imperial Spaces (12th-19th Centuries); click here for more information.

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3gw5Zue... Read more about Book launch & panel discussion: "The Cambridge History of the Kurds"

The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents

Yavuz Aykan
Associate Professor of Early Modern History, École d'Histoire de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3L3xdpW
... Read more about Beyond the Frontier Paradigm: Kurdistan(s) in Space and Time (16th-19th century)

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