The Middle East History and Theory Workshop (MEHAT) is pleased to announce our schedule for Spring 2017. All meetings will be held (mostly) on alternate Wednesdays from 3:00-4:20pm in Pick 218 unless otherwise noted. Food and beverages will be served. Papers will be circulated a week before the workshop meeting via our listserv. If you have any questions, please contact mehat.workshop@uchicago.edu.
April 3 – Dr. Ulrich Marzolph (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
Workshop: “Traveling Tales: The Muslim World’s Contribution to World Narrative Lore.” *2:30-4:00 PM, Foster 103*
April 4 – Dr. Ulrich Marzolph (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
Lecture: “Relief and Hardship: The Turkish Ottoman Model for the Thousand and One Days.” *4:30 PM, Swift Lecture Hall, 3rd floor*
Workshop and Lecture organized by the Persian Circle and co-sponsored by MEHAT, COSAS, the Islamic Studies Workshop and the Comparative Literature Department
April 6 – Gwendolyn Kristy (CMES) *4:30-5:50* Pick 218
“The Impacts of Urbanization on Archaeological Site Preservation in Afghanistan”
Discussant: Anthony Lauricella (NELC)
April 19 – Kara A. Peruccio (NELC)
“Womanhood Mediterranean Style: Patriarchal Authoritarianism and the Politics of Fiction in Italy and Turkey, 1922-1935”
Discussant: Ekin Enacar (NELC)
May 2 – Dr. Muriel Debié (CNRS, Paris; current fellow at the School of Historical Studies-Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Lecture: “Jerusalem in the 7th Century: A Case of Divided Memories.” *3:30-5:00 PM, Classics 21*
Co-sponsored event with the Ancient Societies Workshop and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
May 3 – Rachel Schine (NELC)
“On the Inception and Perception of the Black-Arab Hero in the Siyyar Sha’abiyya”
Discussant: Samantha Pellegrino (Divinity School)
May 11– Dr. Anver Emon (University of Toronto)
Workshop: “Situating the Islamic in Relation to the State: A New Direction in Humanities and Interpretive Social Science Research”
Location: Pick 218, Thursday *4:00 PM*
May 12– Sara Stein (UCLA)
Lecture: “Family Papers: A Sephardic Odyssey Through the Twentieth Century”
Location: Saieh Hall Room 146, Friday *4:30 PM*
Co-sponsored event with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
May 17 – Dr. Sara Pursley (NYU)
Workshop: “Historiographical Uses of Visual Sources: Jawad Salim’s Monument to Freedom”
May 18 – Dr. Sara Pursley (NYU)
Lecture: “Rending the Veils of Time and Space: Conceptions of the Unconscious and the Revolutionary Imagination in 1950s Iraq”. *4:30-6:00 PM, Stuart 105*
Co-sponsored event with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
May 31 – Amir Toft (NELC)
“Registered Silence: Institutional Logic in the Ottoman Court Registers”
Discussant: Basil Salem (History)
Please also mark your calendars for the following events the MEHAT workshop co-sponsored events:
Fri. & Sat., May 5 & 6: 32rd Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference
Fri. & Sat., May 12 & 13: The University of Chicago Shi’i Studies Group Symposium
