Lecture 5/18/17: Dr. Sara Pursley

Please join MEHAT and CMES on Thursday May 18th at 4:30 PM in Stuart 105.

Dr. Sara Pursley (NYU) will lecture about “Rending the Veils of Time and Space: Conceptions of the Unconscious and the Revolutionary Imagination in 1950s Iraq.”

A reception will follow.

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Workshop 5/17/17: Dr. Sara Pursley

Please join the Middle East History and Theory Workshop on Wednesday, May 17th at 3:00 PM in Pick 218 (Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture Room).

Our speaker is Sara Pursley (NYU) who will present the conclusion to her forthcoming manuscript “Historiographical Uses of Visual Sources: Jawad Salim’s Monument to Freedom.

The paper will be distributed via our listserv. Please try to read it in advance for an informed discussion.

Food and beverages will be served. We hope to see you all there!

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Workshop 5/11/17: Dr. Anver Emon

Please join MEHAT, the Islamic Studies Workshop, and CMES on Thursday, May 11th starting at 4:00 PM in Pick 218.

Dr. Anver Emon (University of Toronto) will be with us to discuss the paper “Situating the Islamic in Relation to the State: A New Direction in Humanities and Interpretive Social Science Research. ”

Food and beverages will be served. We hope to see you all there!!

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Lecture 5/2/17: Dr. Muriel Debié

Please join MEHAT, the Ancient Societies Workshop, and CMES on Tuesday, May 2nd from 3:30 PM- 5:00 PM in Classics 21.

Dr. Muriel Debié (CNRS, Paris; current fellow at the School of Historical Studies-Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) will lecture on “Jerusalem in the 7th Century: A Case of Divided Memories.”

Food and beverages will be served. We hope to see you all there!!

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Workshop 5/3/2017: Rachel Schine

Please join the Middle East History and Theory Workshop on Wednesday, May 3rd at 3:00 PM in Pick 218 (Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture Room).

Our speaker is Rachel Schine (NELC) who will present the paper “Reproducing Blackness in Arabic Popular Literature: The Black Heroes of the Siyar Sha’biyya, their Conception, Contests, and Contexts”.
The discussant is Samantha Pellegrino (Divinity school).

The paper will be distributed via our listserv. Please try to read it in advance for an informed discussion.

Food and beverages will be served. We hope to see you all there!

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Workshop 4/19/17: Kara A. Peruccio

Please join the Middle East History and Theory Workshop on Wednesday, April 19th, at 3:00 PM in Pick 218 (Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture Room).

Our speaker is Kara A. Peruccio (NELC) who will present the paper “Womanhood Mediterranean Style: Patriarchal Authoritarianism and the Politics of Fiction in Italy and Turkey, 1922-1935.” The discussant is Ekin Enacar (NELC).

The paper will be distributed via our listserv. Please try to read it in advance for an informed discussion.

Food and beverages will be served. We hope to see you all there!!

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Workshop 4/6/17: Gwendolyn Kristy

Please join the Middle East History and Theory Workshop on Thursday, April 6th, at 4:30 PM in Pick 218 (Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture Room).

Our speaker is Gwendolyn Kristy (CMES) who will present the paper “The Impacts of Urbanization on Archaeological Site Preservation in Afghanistan.” The discussant is Anthony Lauricella (NELC).

The paper will be distributed via our listserv. Please try to read it in advance for an informed discussion.

Food and beverages will be served. We hope to see you all there!!

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Spring 2017 Workshop Schedule

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

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Workshop 3/8/17: Isabel Lachenauer

Please join the Middle East History and Theory Workshop on Wednesday, March 8th, at 3:00 PM in Pick 218 (Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture Room).

Our speaker is Isabel Lachenauer (NELC) who will present the paper “Representations of Warrior Women in the Epic Lyric Romances of Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Anatolia.” The discussant is Prof. Helga Anetshofer-Karateke (NELC).

The paper will be distributed via our listserv. Please try to read it in advance for an informed discussion.

Food and beverages will be served. We hope to see you all there!!

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Workshop 3/1/17: Sotirios Dimitriadis

Please join the Middle East History and Theory Workshop on Wednesday, March 1st, at 3:00 PM in Pick 218 (Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture Room).

Our speaker is Sotirios Dimitriadis (International Hellenic University) who will present the paper “The Political Economy of Ottoman Infrastructure: Public Works in fin de siècle Thessaloniki.” The discussant is Madeleine Elfenbein (NELC).

The paper will be distributed via our listserv. Please try to read it in advance for an informed discussion.

Food and beverages will be served. We hope to see you all there!!

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