Past Events: 2003
January
Thursday, January 16, 2002, 5:30 PM
MIDDLE EAST LECTURE SERIES
Title of Lecture: "Cassette Poetry in Modern Yemen"
Speaker: Flagg Miller, Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
Location: Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
Cosponsors: Kelly Writers House and the Department of Anthropology
Wednesday, January 29, 8-10PM
TEACH-IN: "Aspirations of Nationhood: Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism, and the
Road to Peaceful Coexistence"
Speakers: Dr. David Engel, New York University; Dr. Nubar Hovsepian and Dr. Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Logan Hall, Terrace Room
Co-Sponsor: Salaam/Shalom: Peace through Understanding in Israel and Palestine
February
Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 4:30PM
MIDDLE EAST HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION SERIES
Lecture: "The Sabbatean Movement: Its Place and Role in Jewish History"
Speaker: Jacob Barnai, Professor of Jewish History, Haifa University
Location: Class of 1955 Conference Room (Room 241), 2nd Floor, Van Pelt Library
Co-sponsors: Departments of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, History
Please Note: Non-Penn visitors need to present a picture ID to enter Van Pelt Library. Food and drink not permitted.
Wednesday, February 5 2003, 11:15AM
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA SERIES
Title of Workshop: An Overview of Post-Colonial Middle Eastern Literature
Speaker: Dr. Maggie Nassif, Assistant Director for Outreach, Middle East Center, Penn
Location: Community College of Philadelphia, 1700 Spring Garden St.
Thursday, February 6, 2003, 4:30PM
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES
Title of Seminar: "Finding Itself: Russian Orientalism in 19th-century Travelogues about Iran"
Presenter: Elena Andreeva, Professor of History, Virginia Military Academy
Discussant: Professor Rosane Rocher, South Asia Studies (SAS)
Location: 632 Williams Hall
Tuesday, February 11, ,2003
MIDDLE EAST HEALTH GROUP
Title of Lecture: "War and Medicine in the Middle East: Protection and Medical Assistance to Victims of Conflict"
Speaker: Chris Giannou
Location: Biomedical Research Building (BRB II-III), Room 251 (on Curie Blvd. in the Penn Medical School Complex, behind Stellar-Chance Bldg.)
Co-sponsor: The Middle East Health Group (MEHG) is sponsored by the Middle East Center and the Office of International Medical Programs at the Penn School of Medicine.
Thursday, February 13, 2003, 4:30 PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Lecture: "The Problem of the Satanic Verses and the Formation of Islamic Orthodoxy"
Speaker: Shahab Ahmed
Location: Houston Hall, Golkin Room (223)
Co-Sponsor: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3-4PM
MIDDLE EAST HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION SERIES
Title of Lecture: "Sectarianism as Reflected in Literature in the Tenth-Twelfth Centuries"
Speaker: Devin Stewart, Emory University
Location: Williams 214
Co-Sponsor: Asian and Middle East Studies (AMES)
Thursday, February 20, 2003, 2-4 PM
Title: "Women, Ethno-Political Conflict, Health and Well-Being"
(Reception to follow)
Speakers: Lee Cassanelli, Taeyoon Ahn, Eleanor Covan, Siriorn Sindu, Hanneke Maanen, Kathleen Brown
Panel hosted by: Dean Afaf Meleis
Location: Nursing Building Auditorium
Cosponsors: Nursing School , Medical School, Women Studies Program, Political Science department, African Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Middle East Center and Solomon Asch Center for Ethno-Political Conflict, School of Social Work
Thursday, February 20, 2003, 1:30PM
A Dance Interpretation of Childhood Memories
By: Dagmar Spain's DANCE IMPRINTS
Location: Iron Gate Theater, 37th and Chestnut
Cosponsors: Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series and Penn's Dance Arts Council.
No admission charge. Questions?
215-898-6654
or jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Friday, February 21, 2003, 10-12noon
MIDDLE EAST HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION SERIES
Title of Lecture: "Early Islamic Scripts"
Speaker: François Deroche, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Location: Jaffe, Seminar Room 104
email bvon@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Friday, February 21, 2003, 2-5PM
MIDDLE EAST HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION SERIES
Symposium: "Who Wrote (Down) the Qur'an?"
Speakers: Mahmoud Ayoub, Temple University; Patricia Crone, Princeton University; Francois Deroche, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Fred Donner, University of Chicago; Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria
Location: Humanities Forum Seminar Room, 3619 Locust Walk
Co-sponsors: Departments of History of Art, Religious Studies, South Asia Regional Studies
Friday, February 21 - April 21, 2003
MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL SERIES
Art Exhibition: "The Qur'an: Revelation, Inscription, and Tradition"
Location: Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt Library (sixth floor)
Co-sponsors: Departments of Religious Studies, History of Art, and South Asia Regional Studies
Tuesday, February 25, 2003; 4:30PM
ART AND ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
Title of Lecture: "Shooting Soldiers, Shooting Films: The Cinema of the Iranian Sacred Defense"
Speaker: Roxanne Varsi,
Location: Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
Co-sponsors: South Asia Regional Studies (SARS), African Studies Center, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, February 27, 2003; 4:30PM
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES SEMINAR
Title of Seminar: "The Narrative Craft: Realism and Fiction in the Arab Canon"
Presenter: Samah Selim, Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton
Discussant: Dr. Maggie Nassif, Assistant Director for Outreach, Middle East Center, Penn
Location: 632 Williams Hall
March
Tuesday, March 4 2003, 4:30PM
Title of Lecture: A Reading of Poetry and Translations
Speaker: Lisa Katz, Professor of English at Hebrew University
Location: Kelly Writers House
Co-Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Thursday, March 6, 2003, 4:30PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Title of Lecture: Negotiating Identity in Anglophone Arab Women's Fiction
Speaker: Wail Hassan
Location: Women Studies Conference Room-Logan Hall, 4th Floor
Co-sponsors: Women Studies, Department of Comparative Literature
Friday, March 21, 2003, 11:00AM
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA SERIES
Title of Lecture: Art and Architecture in the Middle East
Speaker: Stephennie Mulder
Location: 1700 Spring Garden
Monday, March 24, 2003, 4:00-6:00 PM
TEACHERS' WORKSHOP
Title of Workshop: The Problem of Political Legitimacy and War in Iraq
Speaker: Nubar Hovsepian, Associate Director, MEC, Univ. of Penn.
Location: World Affiars Council of Philadelphia, One S. Broad Street (Broad and Chestnut Sts.), Widener Bldg., Second Floor
Co-Sponsor: World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
To register, call Joan Lipski at
(215) 561-4700
ext. 207
Monday, March 24, 8:00 PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Title: World Implications of the Conflict in the Middle East
Speaker: Dennis Ross, President Clinton's Special Envoy to the Middle East and Chief Negotiator at the 2000 Camp David Peace Talks
Location: Dunlop Auditorium (off 36th and Spruce Sts.)
Co-Sponsors: PennPAC, Penn Hillel, Greenfield Intercultural Center, Fels Institute of Government, College Democrats, College Republicans
Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 3:00-6:00 PM
Class Guest Speaker: Lecture and Discussion
Title: Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo
Speaker: Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore College
Location: Meyerson, Room B1
Interested Graduate Students please contact Heather Sharkey
Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 7:00 PM
Poetry Reading and Discussion: The Poetry of Place: An Intercultural Night of Israeli and Palestinian Poetry
Speakers: Nili Gold and Roger Allen
Location: TBA
Co-Sponsors: Salaam/Shalom: Peace Through Understanding in Israel and Palestine
Thursday, March 27, 2003; 4:30PM
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES
Title of Seminar Presentation: Violent Shuttlings: Racism, Patriarchy, and the Gendered Politics of Housing in Jerusalem
Presenter: Tom Abowd
Discussant: Samuel Klausner, Prof. Emeritus - Sociology, Penn
Location: 632 Williams Hall
Friday and Saturday, March 28-29, 2003, Various Times
First Annual International Symposium of Classical Islamic Studies: `Ilm and Imama in Medieval Islamic Society: Knowledge and Politics in Classical Islam
Please Note: Space is limited. For location, times, and more information please contact David Hollenberg (dahollen@sas.upenn.edu).
Co-sponsors: Departments of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, History, Religious Studies, Philosophy
Monday, March 31, 2003, 4:30 PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Lecture: The Reception of Orientalism in the West: 25 Years After Edward Said's Orientalism
Speaker: Joel Beinin, Stanford University and President of Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
Commentators: Marilyn Booth and Brendan O'Leary, Political Science, Penn
Location: Logan Hall, Terrace Room
April
Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 4:30PM
MIDDLE EAST HEALTH GROUP
Lecture Title: HIV/AIDS as a Bridge for Peace in the Middle East
Speaker: Inon Schenker, Jerusalem AIDS Project
Commentator: Alex Otieno
Location: Biomedical Research Building (BRB II-III), Room 251 (on Curie Blvd. in the Penn Medical School Complex, behind Stellar-Chance Bldg.)
Co-Sponsor: The Middle East Health Group (MEHG) is sponsored by the Middle East Center and the Office of International Medical Programs at the Penn School of Medicine.
Thursday, April 3, 2003, 4:30PM
MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL SERIES
Title of Lecture: Marketing Trance, Narrating Epiphany: Travelling with the Moroccan Gnawa
Speaker: Deborah Kapchan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Nursing Hall, Room 119-2
Thursday, April 3, 2003, Noon-2:00 PM
"Iraq: The End of the Beginning?"
Speakers: Brendan O'Leary (Professor of Political Science; Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Chair in the Social Sciences; Director, Solomon Asch Center), Ian Lustick (Merriam Term Chair Professor of Political Science; Associate Director, Solomon Asch Center), Arthur Waldron (Professor of History, Lauder Professor of International Relations), Nubar Hovsepian (Associate Director, Middle East Center), Arancha Garcia del Soto (Director of Refugee Initiatives, Solomon Asch Center)
Description of Event: A symposium of Penn faculty will address the unfolding invasion and the likely repercussions for ethnic relations in Iraq, humanitarian disaster management, stability in the Middle East, and U.S. foreign and security policy.
Location: Hall of Flags, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street
Co-Sponsors: Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, School of Arts & Sciences
Saturday, April 5, 8:00 PM
Comedian: Andrew Shams
Location: Meyerson Hall, B-1
Co-Sponsors: Penn Persian Society
Monday, April 7, 2003, 11:15 AM
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA SERIES
Title: War as the School of Peace for Arabs and Israelis
Speaker: Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Community College of Philadelphia, 1700 Spring Garden Street, Large Auditorium
Monday, April 7, 2003, 4:30PM
Series: MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Title of Lecture: After the Iraq War: Needed Reforms, Oil Wealth, and War
Speakers: Roger Owen, Harvard University and Vahan Zanoyan, Petroleum Finance Company (President and CEO)
Location: Lauder Institute Auditorium
Co-Sponsor: Penn Lauder CIBER
Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 12 Noon
Title: Persian Language and Literature: Foundational Approaches to Contextualizing its Cultural Universality and Deconstructing the Parochialism of its Modern Ethnic Identification
Speaker: Giv Nassiri
Location: Williams Hall, Room 816
Friday, April 11, 2003, 3:30 PM
Title: "History" Between Classical and Modern: The Press and Poetry of Persian Constitutionalists in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Speaker: Pardis Minuchehr
Location: Williams Hall, Room 816
Wednesday, April 16, 2003: 12:00PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES followed by reception in JMHH forum
Title of Lecture: The Muslims and the Media
Speaker: Abdallah Schleifer, Director of the Adham Center for Television Journalism at The American University in Cairo; Shems Friedlander, Producer of documentary "Rumi:Wings of Love"
Discussants: Khalid Dawood, El Ahram Newspaper, Director, DC office; Edward Webb, Political Science Department, Former Press Attaché, British Embassy in Cairo
Location: Huntsman Hall, JMHH G-60
Friday, April 18, 2003, 4:30 PM
MIDDLE EAST HEALTH GROUP
Panel: The Female Circumcision Controversy and the Process of Change: An Anthropologist's
Participants: Ellen Gruenbaum, Dean of College of Social Sciences, California State University at Fresno
Commentator: Afaf Meleis, Dean of Nursing School, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Biomedical Research Building (BRB II-III), Room 253 (on Curie Blvd. in the Penn Medical School Complex, behind Stellar-Chance Bldg.)
Co-sponsor: The Middle East Health Group (MEHG) is sponsored by the Middle East Center and the Office of International Medical Programs at the Penn School of Medicine.
Tuesday September 23, 2003: 5:00PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Title of Lecture: British Foreign Policy Since 11 September 2001
Speaker: Sir Roger Tomkys, former British Ambassador to Syria and Bahrain and Master of Pembroke College (Cambridge)
Location: 3619 Locust Walk, Penn Humanities Forum Lecture Room
Lecture will be followed by reception (3619 Locust Walk, seminar room 102)
Tuesday September 23, 2003: 4:30PM
HEBREW LITERATURE SERIES
Title:The Enemy at Home: Sexual Politics in a Medieval Hebrew Marriage Debate
Speaker: Tova Rosen, Israeli author of new book UNVEILING EVE -first in the Jewish Series from the UPenn Press (2003).
Location: Class of 1947 Room in Houston Hall (35th and Spruce Streets)
Co-Sponsors: Jewish Studies, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, and Women's Studies
Thursday, September 25, 2003: 4:30 PM
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES
Title of Seminar: Beyond Colonial and Nationalist Categories: A History of the Name Maghrib/North Africa
Presenter: Ali Ahmida, Department of Humanities, University of New England
Location: 202 South 36th Street Seminar Room 200
Tuesday, September 30, 2003: 4:30-7PM
OUTREACH - TEACHERS' WORKSHOP
Title of Event: International Resource Fair
Location: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology
Co-Sponsors: World Affairs Council, International Classroom, Upenn Museum, African Studies, East Asia Center, South Asia Center
Tuesday, October 7, 2003: 8PM
MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL SERIES:
Speaker: Ishmael Khaldi, Former Employee of the American Embassy and Recipient of a Masters Degree in Political Science from Tel Aviv University
Location: New Hillel, 2nd floor Library
Co-Sponsors: Israel Cultural Committee, Israel Campus Initiative at Penn
Friday, October 17 (8 AM - 1 PM) and Saturday, October 18th, 2003 (8 AM - 5 PM)
TEACHERS' WORKSHOP
Title of Event: "Teaching the Middle East Creatively"
Location: University of Pennyslvania Museum of Art and Archaeology, various locations within.
Co-Sponsors: World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, International Classroom, Arabic World and Islamic Resources
Monday, October 20, 2003: 5:30PM
MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL SERIES
Mehregan: A celebration of the Old Persian New Year, marking Harvest time.
Location: Arch Crest in Arch Building (previously known as the Palladium)
Tuesday, October 21, 2003: 7:30PM
WOMEN AND THE ARTS OF ISLAM SERIES
Title: "Prayers Projected: Imaging the Sacred"
Speaker: Ms. Hudo Tutonji
Location: Meyerson Hall, B3
Co-Sponsors: History of Art, Women's Studies, College of General Studies, Religious Studies
Thursday, October 23, 2003: 4:30 PM
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES
Title of Seminar: "The New Barbarians: Piracy and Terrorism on the North African Frontier"
Presenter: Paul Silverstein, Anthropology Department, Reed College
Discussant: Lee Cassanelli, Associate Professor of History, Upenn.
Location: 202 South 36th Street Seminar Room 200
Monday, November 3, 2003: 5PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE & THE JANET LEE STEVENS MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
Title of Lecture: "The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?"
Speaker: John L. Esposito, Director, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Location: Stiteler Hall, B26.
Co-Sponsors: Janet Lee Stevens Memorial Lecture Committee, Middle East Center at U Penn, Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, Religious Studies
Tuesday, November 4, 2003: 5:00PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE & THE 7TH ANNUAL JOSEPH AND REBECCA NEYERHOFF LECTURE SERIES:
Title of Lecture: "Fences and Neighbors: Jews and Muslims at the Last Millenium"
Speakers: Joseph Lowry, Upenn (From Client Tribes to Protected Comunities)
Marina Rustow, Emory University (How Islam Shaped Judaism)
Menahm Ben Sasson, Hebrew University (Cultural Exchange Between Jews and Muslims)
Moderator: David Ruderman, Upenn
Location: College Hall, room 209
Co-Sponsors: Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, History Department, Jewish Studies Program.
Thursday, November 6, 2003: 7PM
HEBREW LITERATURE SERIES
Title: "Bells and Trains," a radio play by Yehuda Amichai
Location: Steinhardt hall, New Hillel
Co-Sponsors: Jewish Studies and Hillel at Penn
Sunday, November 9, 2003: 3PM
MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL SERIES
Concert: MUSICA MUNDANA, Chamber Music Society featuring Aysegul Durakoglu, Director and Pianist
Location: Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Please Note: Tickets are Required. Contact Wallis Urmenyhazi at
(215) 222-8927
.
A reception will follow the event in the Bodek Lounge at 4:30PM
Co-Sponsors: TAFSUS, Turkish Student Association at Penn.
Wednesday, November 12, 2003: 5:30PM
Screening of "A Trumpet in the Wadi"
Location: Meyerson Hall, B3
Contact: RavitT@newyork.mfa.gov.il
Thursday, November 13, 2003: 4:30 PM
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES
Title of Seminar: "The Map the Slave Made: Saint Bakhita's Footsteps in the Nile Valley"
Presenter: Eve Troutt Powell, History Department, University of Georgia
Discussant: Cheikh Babou, African Studies
Location: 202 South 36th Street Seminar Room 200
Thursday, November 13, 2003: 5:30PM
HEBREW LITERATURE SERIES
Title:Readings by Sami Mikhail
Location: 202 South 36th Street, room 107
Co-Sponsors: Consulate of Israel, Jewish Studies and Hillel at Penn
Sunday, November 16, 2003 (various times)
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Title: "Marcus Jastrow and Rabbinic Lexicography: A Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Jastrow Dictionary"
Location: Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor (Van Pelt-Dietrich Library)
Co-Sponsors: The School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, The Jewish Program at Penn, The Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania, The American Jewish Historical Society, Congregation Knesset Israel, and Temple Rodeph Shalom
For further information, please contact The Jewish Studies Program at Penn, tel:
215-898-6654
, jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Wednesday, November 19, 2003: 6:30PM
MIDDLE EAST PUBLIC LECTURE
Title of Lecture: "Baghdad Fragments"
Speakers: Sinan Antoon, Harvard University and Bassam Haddad, Georgetown Unversity
Location: Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, room 215
December
Thursday, December 4, 2003: 4:45 PM
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES
Title of Seminar: The Maghrib: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Crossroads
Presenter: Eric Sellin, Professor Emeritus of French Literature, Tulane University
Location: 202 South 36th Street Seminar Room 200
Wednesday, December 10th, 2003: 5 -8:45 PM
MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL SERIES and Wednesday Nights at The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Concert: Hassan Hakmoun , Moroccan Gnawa musician and Independent Music
Award Winner Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th Streets
Note: Free Admission with Penn ID For more information call:
215 763 8100
or visit www.philamuseum.org