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Fall 2009 Events

"These Great and Small Stories We Tell: History, Schooling, and Imagining the Nation - 1920's - 1960's Egypt"


Date: TBA
Time:
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location:
4511 Seaman Center
Presenter:
Professor Meriam Belli, Education/School

Past Fall 2009 Events

"The Headscarf Debate in Turkey: Intersecting Private Lives and National Identity"


Date: Thursday, September 24
Time:
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location:
UCC 2520 D Seminar Room
Presenter:
Kate Karacay

Title TBA


Date: Thursday, October 8
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Public Library Meeting Room A
Presenter: Phyllis Bennis

“Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727: North African Responses to European Expansion"


Date: Thursday, October 22
Time:
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location:
UCC 2520 D Seminar Room
Presenter:
Professor Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota
Reception to follow

"Mediterranean Intersections - the Arabic Narrative"


Date: Friday, October 23
Time:
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location:
IP Conference Room
Presenter:
Professor Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota


“Orientalism in the Labor Room: The Lamaze Method of Childbirth in Central Asia and North Africa”


Date: Thursday, November 5
Time:
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location:
History conference room (enter through the History main office)
Presenter:
Professor Paula Michaels