Past Events

Events



Deforming the Canon: Encounters with the History of Islamic Art, Artifact, and the Built Environment

MEC Co-Sponsored Event
May 5, 2025 - May 6, 2025 at -

In the second half of the twentieth century, the notion of convivencia—the peaceable coexistence of Muslims, Christians, and Jews living in medieval Spain—dominated the art historical discourse on cultural interaction…



Ethnic Politics and State Foreign Policy in the Middle East and Neighboring Regions

An Emerging Scholars Event
Apr 30, 2025 at -

Join us for a fireside chat between UPenn PhD candidates Sirwan Renas and Daniel Shapiro, where they will explore how ethnic politics intersect with state foreign policy across the Middle East and neighboring regions,…



The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran

Booktalk with Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Apr 24, 2025 at -

The Middle East Center is hosting Beeta Baghoolizadeh for a book talk on The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran.



The Landscapes of Exile in Premodern Persian Poetry

2025 Trehan Lecture
Apr 21, 2025 at -

On Monday, April 21at 5:30 pm, the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures will hold its annual Trehan Lecture in Islamic Studies featuring Sunil Sharma of Boston University speaking on "The Landscapes of…



Book Talk: Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance

Written by Amy Kaplan, the late Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her former colleagues and students will discuss the posthumously published work.
Apr 14, 2025 at -

"Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience." --Ta-Nehisi Coates Join us in discussing Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. Written by Amy Kaplan, the late Edward W. Kane…



Fragmented Return

Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF): Sound & Color.
Apr 11, 2025 at -

Fragmented Return When Huda (b. 1982) and Farah (b. 1985) first met in Gaza in 1997, neither could have anticipated that their brief musical performance at the Latin Patriarchate School, also known as Deir al-…



"How Local Can You (Really) Go?" Archaeology in the Ottoman Lands in the Long 19th Century

Humanities-at-Large Lecture with Prof Edhem Eldem
Apr 10, 2025 at -

Edhem EldemSakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor, History Department, Columbia University



2025 CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference: Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies

Please join us on April 10 & 11, 2025 for a biennial CARGC fellows’ symposium that will explore the theme, "Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies."
Apr 10, 2025 - Apr 11, 2025 (All Day)

The 2025 biennial fellows’ conference explores how the surge in political violence, the ongoing genocide and its subsequent censorship, conditions knowledge production in the field of global media and communication…



The Cultural Journey of Folklore and Dance: Halay

Apr 10, 2025 at -

Speaker: Dr. Ahmet KeskinDr. Ahmet Keskin is a faculty member in the Department of Turkology at Samsun University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Turkish culture and folklore. Keskin's research focuses…



Islamic Socialism: The Difficulty of Justice as Equality

Apr 9, 2025 at -

Islamic Socialism: The Difficulty of Justice as Equality