FALL 2009 Events

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:

Lecture: "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

CSAS Colloquium:   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.

Speakers: 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

Poetry Reading:  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, 5:30 pm, Page Auditorium, Duke West Campus,

Lecture: 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 11, 2009, 8:00-9:00 pm, Perkins Rare Book Room, Duke West Campus. 

Duke Conversation with Todd Schwartz, Director of the Office of Iranian Affairs, U.S. Department of State. An Economics Officer in the US Foreign Service, Schwartz currently serves as director of the Office of Iranian Affairs. He is an expert in Middle Eastern issues, speaks Arabic and has extensive experience on current issues there. He has also served in various roles in Tunisia, Qatar, Kuwait, the Philippines and Germany (during the fall of the Berlin Wall).

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.

Cosponsor: History Department

November 13-14, 2009, 240 Franklin Center

Conference: "Civic Engagement in the Middle East Conference."

Friday, November 13, 4:30 - 6:00 PM, Richard White Hall, East Campus

Opening Lecture: "Civil Society in Egypt during the Mubarak Administration," Dr. Hamdy A. Hassan, Professor of Political Science, Cairo University and Zayed University

Conference: Saturday, November 14, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. 240 John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University

See website for conference details and program.

Cosponsors: Duke Islamic Studies Center, DukeEngage, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Focus, Duke University Center for International Studies, Office of the Vice Provost of International Affairs, Office of the Provost, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Muslim Life

  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 6:00, 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." .

November 19, 2009 12:00pm, 311 Social Sciences Building, Duke West Campus  IPS Lecture Series: " Where Bernard Lewis Went Wrong: Rethinking Secularism Across the Islam-West Divide" Nader Hashemi, International Studies, University of Denver. This lecture is sponsored with the Political Theory Workshop Series.

 

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 22, 2010 All Day, Law School 3037. Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law Symposium: "Terrorism and Changes to the Laws of War"

This symposium will address current and future developments regarding the detention and trial of persons suspected of terror related activity; targeting suspected militants and non-state actors and the use of force; and comparative trends in related legal developments. Presenters include professors from Free University Amsterdam, Tel Aviv University, Columbia University, and the University of Texas; a former U.S. Army Judge Advocate General colonel; and a former Clinton Administration State Department official and U.S. negotiator in the International Criminal Court summits in Rome, Italy. For more information, contact Andrew Crawford at andrew.crawford@duke.edu.

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.

Cosponsor: 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.

Cosponsor: 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 14, 2010 4:30-6:00pm, John Hope Franklin Center 240. Duke University Seminar on Global Health: Gina Dallabetta

Topic: Gender, Health, and Poverty. Dr. Gina Dallabetta is Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gina joined the Foundations's Avahan, India AIDS Initiative in January 2005. She has fifteen years of experience in HIV programming. Prior to joining the Foundation, Gina was Director of the prevention department of the HIV/AIDS Institute of Family Health International (FHI).

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.