FALL 2009 Events

May 21- November 29, 2009, David Roberts and the Holy Land,  David Roberts (1796-1864) of Scotland was one of the first major European artists to travel in the Middle East, sketching its landscapes and religious sites. He arrived in 1838, after the region had been reopened by Napoleon's expeditions. He traveled from the Sinai peninsula northward to the ancient ruins of Baalbec, in what is now modern-day Lebanon. His drawings were published from 1842-1844 as "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia," giving the general public its first glimpse of the biblical landscape and monuments previously known only by verbal descriptions.

Visit http://www.nasher.duke.edu/perm_collection.php#david_roberts for more information.

OCTOBER

October 13, 2009, 4:30pm, 139 Social Sciences Building, Duke West Campus

Jerusalem Women Speak Tour 2009 "Three Women- Three Faiths- One Shared Vision" presented by Partners for Peace.org.

Cosponsors: The Duke Middle Eastern Studies Center, The Duke Human Rights Center, Womens Studies, DUCIS, Hart Leadership Program.

October 15, 2009, 4:00-5:30pm, Bryan Research 103   IPS Lecture Series: "Islam and the West" Ian Buruma, Cultural Studies and Journalism, Bard College, also part of the Kenan Institute for Ethics 2009 Distinguished Lecture in Ethics

Sponsors: Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute.

October 19, 2009, 12:00-1:30pm 201 Flowers Building, Duke West Campus  IPS Lecture Series:"The Social Origins of Separatism: Lord, Peasant, and Urban Radical in the Making of Modern Kurdistan", Benjamin Smith, Political Science, University of Florida, Gainesville.

Cosponsor: Comparative Politics Workshop Series.

October 26, 2009, 5:30PM Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill UNC: "Afghanistan Deteriorating: Need the US Stay? How Will Success be Defined?" Ambassador Ronald Neumann,

October 27, 2009: 4:30-6:30 PM, Rhodes Conference Room (223), Sanford School of Public Policy

Lecture: "Aga Khan Development Network: An Expression of the Social Conscience of Islam"

Iqbal Noor Ali, CEO of Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A.

Sponsor: Foundation Impact Research Group

October 27, 2009; 5:30 pm, Room 3041, Duke Law School.

Lecture: "The Global War on Terror: Setting the Record Straight"

Douglas Feith, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute; Belfer Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Sponsors: Federalist Society at Duke Law, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Duke's Program in American Grand Strategy, American Constitution Society

October 28th, 2009, 8:00pm. Griffith Theater  CMW: Accented Film of the Middle East Series "Absurdistan" (Veit Helmer, 2008, Germany/Azerbaijan) This film series is cosponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute.

October 29th, 2009, 7:00pm.  "Gender Trouble in Islamic Texts and Contexts: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi on Sexuality, Gender and the Body. Ali Altaf Mian, graduate student in Religion, Duke University. For location and a copy of the paper contact Scott Sorrell. Part of the North Carolina Consortium for South Asia Studies colloquium series.

NOVEMBER

November 3, 2009 3:45pm, 111 Social Sciences Building, Duke West Campus, IPS Lecture Series: , "Radical, Religious, and Violent Economics and Terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan", Eli Berman, Economics, University of California, San Diego. This event is cosponsored with the Applied Microeconomics workshop series.

November 5, 2009, 4:30 PM, 217 Perkins Library, West Campus

Lecture-Discussion: Witnessing Iran: 1979 and 2009, a discussion of the changing role of the eyewitness account in the creation of historical narrative--with Iran as the content.

Mark Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah and Professor Negar Mottahedeh, Duke Literature.

Moderator: Bruce Kuniholm, Dean, Sanford School of Public Policy.

November 5, 2009, 8:00 PM, Von Cannon Rooms, Bryan Center, Duke West Campus

Iraqi Poet Dunya Mikhail, Poetry reading and talk about the role of art, poetry, and censorship in Arab society.  The 2001 United Nations Award for Human Rights recipient will also talk about her personal experience as an Iraqi exile and read selections from her work, which includes four published poetry collections: The Psalms of Absence, Almost Music, The War Works Hard, and Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea.

Sponsor: Duke University Union Major Speakers Series

November 9, 2009, 5:30pm, Page Auditorium, Duke West Campus, Fareed Zakaria: "The Rise of the Rest: Post-American World One Year After the Election of Obama." Fareed Zakaria is editor of Newsweek International, a columnist and CNN host. Made possible by the S. David Phillips Endowment and co-sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy Inaugural Series, the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy, and the TISS.

November 12, 2009, 4:30pm, 103 Carr Building, Duke East Campus    IPS Lecture Series:"The New World Meets the Old: Rethinking Slavery Across the Modern Mediterranean," Madeline Zilfi, History, University of Maryland, College Park. This event is cosponsored with the History Department at Duke University.

November 13-14, 2009, 240 Franklin Center Conference: "Civic Engagement in the Middle East Conference." Organizer: Prof. Mbaye Lo, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke Engage (Details forthcoming)

This conference will be sponsored with the Duke Center for Civic Engagement and the Duke Middle Eastern Studies Center.

November 16, 2009 4:30pm, Pleasant's Room, Wilson Library, UNC-CH. "The Widow's Torment: How Religious Liberty Can Increase Stability in the Middle East."Co-sponsored by the Ralph McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies, the Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-CH, the Department of Sociology, UNC-CH, and the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, UNC-CH.

November 17, 2009 6:00pm, 0001 Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium, Michael Hooker Research Center, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-CH. Dr. Marty Matlock: "Land, Natural Resources, and Sovereignty: Lessons from the Cherokee Nation and the Palestinian West Bank." Co-sponsored by the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-CH, the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, UNC-CH, American Indian Center, UNC-CH.

November 19, 2009 12:00pm, 311 Social Sciences Building, Duke West Campus  IPS Lecture Series: "Islam and Liberal Democracy" Nader Hashemi, International Studies, University of Denver. This lecture is sponsored with the Political Theory Workshop Series.

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SPRING 2010 EVENTS  

JANUARY

January 2010, (time/location TBD)  CMW: Accented Films of the Middle East Series:

"The Calendar" ( Atom Egoyan, 1993, Armenia/Canada). This film series is cosponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute.

January 25, 2010, 12:00-1:30 (location TBD)  IPS Lecture Series:"Ayatlollahs on the Pareto Frontier: Islam, Information, and Social Order in Iraq, " David Patel, Political Science, Cornell University. This event is cosponsored with the Comparative Politics Workshop Series.

January 26, 2010 (time/location TBD)  IN Events: "The Iraqi National Election" David Patel Political Science, Cornell University.

FEBRUARY

February 4, 2010, 12:00-1:30pm (location TBD)  IPS Lecture Series:"Paper Economics, Legal Regimes, and Commerical Logic of Writing in Muslim Africa," Ghislaine Lydon, History, UCLA This event is cosponsored with the History Department at Duke.

February 19, 2010, 12:00-1:30pm (location TBD)  IPS Lecture Series: "Are Second Generation Muslims Creating an American Islam?" Rhys Williams, Sociology, Loyola University. This event is cosponsored with the Sociology Department.

February 2010 (time/location TBD): IN Event: Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University, Goverment-- Obama and Middle Eastern Policy.

This event is cosponsored with the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS)

February 2010 (time/location TBD)   CMW: Accented Films of the Middle East Series:

"Turtles Can Fly" (Bahman Ghobadi, with music by Hossein Alizadeh, 2004, Iraq/Iran). This film series is cosponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute.

MARCH

March 2010 (time/location TBD) CMW: Accented Films of the Middle East Series:

"40 Quadratmeter Deutschland" (Tevfik Baser, 1986, Turkey/Germany) This film series is cosponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute.

March 16, 2010 (time/location TBD): IN Event: Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations

Obama and Middle Eastern Policy

This event is cosponsored with the Triangle Institue for Security Studies (TISS)

March 25, 2010, (time/location TBD): IPS Lecture Series:"Oil, Dollars, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold," Mahmoud El Gamal, Rice University. This event is cosponsored with the Nicholas School of the Environment and The Fuqua School of Business.

APRIL

April 2-3, 2010    Conference: "Economic Development in the Middle East: Past and Present"

Organizer: Timur Kuran, Economics and Political Science, Duke University  (Details Forthcoming)

This conference is sponsored by the Department of Economics.

April 7, 2010 (time/location TBD) IPS Lecture Series: "The Compatibility of Islamic Law and State Law"Abdullah An-Naim, Emory University, Law. This event is cosponsored with the Duke Law School

April 2010 (time/location TBD) CMW Accented Films of the Middle East Series:                  

"I Love Vienna" (Houchang Allahyari, 1991, Iran/Austria)  This film series is cosponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute.