Past Events

Events



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 



Requiring Resistance: Life Against Carceral and Colonial Violence in Egypt and Palestine

Yasmin El-Rifae
Apr 8, 2025 at -

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In Conversation: Hidden Liberalism in Modern Iran

Persian Students Association at Penn
Apr 2, 2025 at -

Join Dr. Hussein Banai and Dr. Mahyar Entezari for an engaging discussion of Hidden Liberalism in Modern Iran, a groundbreaking work that sheds new light on Iran’s political evolution in the 19th and 20th centuries.…



The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Cornell UP, 2024)

Embodied Histories Working Group: Book Lecture with Sara Rahnama
Mar 31, 2025 at -

Embodied Histories Working Group Book Lecture with Sara RahnamaThe Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Cornell UP, 2024)



The Scales of Suffering: Neo-Lachrymosity and the Writing of Jewish History

MEC Co-Sponsored Event
Mar 31, 2025 at -

Is the writing of Jewish history possible without tears and tales of woe? This was the challenge leveled nearly a hundred years ago by perhaps the most influential Jewish historian in the United States, Salo Baron.…