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The Disaster Studies Initiative examines catastrophes in the Middle East and North Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special focus on the history of seismicity. The initiative was founded by Cemal Kafadar at the Center for Middle Eastern...

Disaster Analytics, Hermeneutics, Poetics and Pedagogies: Building Disaster Studies, Remooring Academia

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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)...

CMES Disaster Studies Initiative Spring 2026 Colloquium

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The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents Spring 2026 Colloquium The Disaster Studies Initiative was founded by Cemal Kafadar in response to a series of highly destructive earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria in February, 2023. The initiative...

CMES Postdoctoral Fellowships in Disaster Studies

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Now Accepting Applications – DEADLINE May 31, 2023 The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Disaster Studies. The fellowships extend for 12 months, from September 1, 2023, to...

Rupture and Repair: Towards a Critical Phenomenology of Disaster

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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...

Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity (Day 1)

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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...

Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity (Day 2)

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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...

Elif Irem Az

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Elif Irem Az is a medical and political-economic anthropologist, poet, and Disaster Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia University in...

Extractive Capitalism in the Middle East: Past & Present

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The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present a panel on 'Extractive Capitalism in the Middle East', featuring Elif İrem Az, CMES Postdoctoral fellow in Disaster Studies, Harvard University Mattin Biglari, Lecturer...

Post-war/Post-disaster Recovery of Aleppo: Rethinking the Past and the Future

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Dr. Anas Soufan Artist, Architect & Heritage Specialist; Affiliation: CMES, GSD, Harvard + NABNI-H, France The Ancient City of Aleppo was inscribed in the World Heritage List in 1986. From 2012 to 2017, it...

Teaching Water: Global Perspectives on a Resource in Crisis

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This multi-regional 4-day workshop, intended for junior and senior high school educators, will examine a variety of the most critical issues facing international waterways and the communities who rely on these bodies of water. Registration is filled...

Life with Earthquakes: Environment, Technology, Society in a Technosolutionist Imaginary

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The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present Elizabeth Reddy Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, Design, & Society and Department of Geophysics. Associate Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Science Program, Colorado...