Archive – September 2011
Friday, August 31, 2012
11:00 A.M.
102 Jones Hall
The Ph.D. Final Public Oral Examination of Luke B. Yarbrough
Dissertation title:
“Islamizing the Islamic State: The Formulation and Assertion of
Religious Criteria for State Employment in the First Millennium AH”
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
2:00 P.M.
102 Jones Hall
The Ph.D. Final Public Oral Examination of Katharina Anna Ivanyi
Dissertation title:
Virtue, Piety and the Law:
A Study Of Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī’s Al-Ṭarīqa Al-Muḥammadiyya
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Monday, September 17, 2012
12:00 p.m.–1:00 pm
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
Translation Lunch Series
Translation Lunch Series
Benjamin Buchholz
Graduate Student, Near Eastern Studies
“Translation at War”
Sponsored by PIIRS
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Bernard Haykel
Princeton University
“Syria: State of Barbarism”
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Sam Helfont (NES)
“Co-opting, Coercing, and Creating Religion in Saddam’s Iraq”
Discussant: Aaron Rock-Singer (NES)
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Nelly Lahoud
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the United States Military Academy, West Point
“Al-Qa'ida and the Professionalization of Jihadis”
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr
The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia
Samar Yazbek
Novelist, journalist, and author
“A Woman in the Crossfire”
Sponsored with the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, and the Women's Center
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.
Frist Multi-Purpose Room A
The Arabic Lecture Series at Princeton University
Samar Yazbek
Syrian author and journalist
“A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution”
(in Arabic)
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Samer Traboulsi
Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Transregional Institute
“If Rice were a Man: Twelver and Ismaili Reception of an early Shi’i Hadith”
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
4:40 p.m.
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Workshop on Arab Political Development
Bernard Haykel
Princeton University
“Is Yemen a Failed State?”
Co-sponsored by the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Program in Near Eastern Studies
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Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012
4:30 p.m.
Robertson Hall, Room 016
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Stanley Katz, Woodrow Wilson School
Panelists include Amaney Jamal, Politics, and Max Weiss, History and Near Eastern Studies
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: James Casey (History)
“Politics of Pious Property: Reassessing the Colonial Encounter in the French Mandates through Islamic Endowments”
Discussant: Prof. Michael Laffan (History)
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Thursday, October 4, 2012, 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Friday, October 5, and Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
“Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age: ‘New Directions in Middle East Intellectual History’”
Organized by Max Weiss, Princeton University, and Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
Co-sponsored by PIIRS; the Council on the Humanities; the Transregional Institute; the Workshop on Arab Political Development; the Department and Program of Near Eastern Studies; the Shelby Cullom Davis Center; the Department of History
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Marc Lynch
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University
“The Arab Spring and the New Arab Public Sphere”
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
4:30 pm
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Workshop on Arab Political Development
Joseph Sassoon
Georgetown University
“Saddam Hussein's Ba`th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime”
Co-sponsored by the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice,
Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia,
the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Program in Near Eastern Studies
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Amaney Jamal
Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University
“Of Empires and Citizens: Pro American Democracy or No Democracy at All?”
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
202 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Jacob Olidort (Near Eastern Studies)
“‘Pray as you have seen me pray’: al-Albani, the Prophet's prayer, and rethinking the sources of legal authority”
Discussant: Usaama al-Azami (Near Eastern Studies)
“‘Pray as you have seen me pray’: al-Albani, the Prophet's prayer, and rethinking the sources of legal authority”
Discussant: Usaama al-Azami (Near Eastern Studies)
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.
102 Jones
Arabic Lecture Series
Dr. Samer Traboulsi
Visiting Associate Research Fellow, The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa & Central Asia, and Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina
“A Diva with a Message: Umm Kulthum and the Arab Cause: A Lecture in Arabic”
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov
Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States
"Azerbaijan: Crossroads of a Region in Flux"
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
3:30 p.m.
202 Jones Hall
Informal Seminar
Archbishop Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim
Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo
"Christians and the Arab Spring: The View from Syria"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and
The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) at Princeton University
Please RSVP to matheney@princeton.edu
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Friday, October 26, 2012
3:00 P.M.
102 Jones Hall
The Ph.D. Final Public Oral Examination of Elisabeth H. Cohen
Dissertation title:
“Formal Structure in the Lyric Poetry of 'Abd Allah Ibn Al-Mu'tazz”
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Monday, November 5, 2012
12:00 noon
102 Jones Hall
The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
Columnist and Non-Resident Fellow at the Dubai School of Government
“The Gulf States' Response to the Arab Spring Uprisings”
Lunch will be provided.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Daniel C. Kurtzer
S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Rightsizing America's Role in the Middle East”
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Monday, November 12, 2012
4:30 p.m.
105 Chancellor Green
105 Chancellor Green
Department of French and Italian
Hassouna Mosbahi
A Lecture in French
A Lecture in French
"Ecrire en Tunisie hier et Aujourd'hui"
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Max Weiss
Assistant Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies
“The Cultural Politics of the Syrian Revolution”
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
102 Jones Hall
4:30–5:30 p.m.
The Arabic Lecture Series at Princeton University
Hassouna Mosbahi
حسونة مصباحي
Tunisian author and novelist
“Tunisian Writing Between Yesterday and Today: A Lecture in Arabic”
“ بين الأمس واليوم الكتابة التونسية ”
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: David Selim Sayers (NES)
“A Morphology for Literature on the Wiles of Women in Ottoman and Azeri Texts”
Discussant: Professor Shaun Marmon (Religion)
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2 Roberston Hall
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2 Roberston Hall
Workshop on Arab Political Development
US Election Outcome and its Impact on the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Plan
Kahlil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research
Daniel Kurtzer, WWS
Amaney Jamal, Politics; director, Workshop on Arab Political Development; director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Co-sponsored by the Mamhouda S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice; the Institute for the Transregional Studies of the Contemprorary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; and the Department of and Program in Near Eastern Studies
US Election Outcome and its Impact on the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Plan
Kahlil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research
Daniel Kurtzer, WWS
Amaney Jamal, Politics; director, Workshop on Arab Political Development; director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Co-sponsored by the Mamhouda S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice; the Institute for the Transregional Studies of the Contemprorary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; and the Department of and Program in Near Eastern Studies
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Michael A. Reynolds
Near Eastern Studies
“Turkish Foreign Policy: The Promise and Peril of Neo-Ottomanism”
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
4:30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Islam and the Modern World Seminar Series
Bayram Balci
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Turkish Islamic Influences in Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus”
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Friday, November 30, 2012
4:30-5:30 pm
Bowl 01, Robertson Hall
The Woodrow Wilson School Student-Initiated Projects presents
Kevan Harris
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Near Eastern Studies Department
"The Strangling of Persia, Redux: Iran Sanctions from the Inside"
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Friday, November 30, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Murray-Dodge Cafe
“The Problem of Extremisms: Islam & the Ethics of Moderation”
Conversation with Dr. Yahya Michot
Islamic Studies, Hartford Theological Seminary
Sponsored by Princeton University Muslim Life Program and The Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Professor Lucette Valensi
“A Familiar Presence: Muslims in Europe (16-18th c)”
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building
Sarah Schulman
Jewish American author, playwright and activist
"Israel/Palestine and the Queer International"
Co-sponsored by: Princeton Committee on Palestine, the Theater and Dance Department, the Anthropology Department, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Program in Near Eastern Studies, the Davis International Center, and Projects Board
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Summer Arabic Study Informational Meeting
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
4:30 p.m.
Jones Hall 102
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Megan Brankley Abbas (History)
“Modernizing Islam at McGill: Encounters Between Academia and Islamic Thought”
Discussant: Alexander Balistreri (NES)
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Cuma, 7 Aralık 2012
12:00 noon–1:10 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Turkish Language Lunch Talk
Öğle yemeği ve konuşma
Firuze Melike Sumertaş
Firuze Melike Sumertaş
"İstanbul'da Neler Oluyor: Bir Kentin TOKİ ile İmtihanı"
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Monday, December 10, 2012
6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Whig Hall, Senate Chamber
“A Hope for Peace in the Children of Palestine and Israel”
Please Join Us For A Screening of the Award-Winning Film Promises
Discussion with Film Director Justine Shapiro
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Aurélie Daher
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Transregional Institute
“Hezbollah Facing the Lebanese State: a Special Case of Political Islam (1982-2012)”
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CANCELLED!
Monday, February 11, 2013
4:30pm
Robertson Hall - Bowl One
Woodrow Wilson School
M. Levent Bilgen
Consul General of the Republic of Turkey
“Turkish Foreign Policy and Economic Issues in the 21st Century”
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies and The Ertegün Foundation
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Middle East Society
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Kevan Harris
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Near Eastern Studies
“Military Monolith or Subcontractor State? The Politics of Privatization in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
4:30 p.m.
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Workshop on Arab Political Development
Marina Ottaway
Marina Ottaway
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
“How Not to Write a Constitution: Lessons from Egypt”
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:00-1:20pm
Jones 102
12:00-1:20pm
Jones 102
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Near Eastern Studies)
Presenter: Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Near Eastern Studies)
Tapping Sources: The Marājiʿ and Their Followers in Pakistan
Discussant: Max Weiss (History and Near Eastern Studies)
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Marion Katz
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
New York University
“Debating Women's Mosque Access in Sixteenth-Century Mecca"
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Daniel Sheffield
Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies
“Bombay Parsis and the Rediscovery of Ancient Iran, 1850–1900"
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
1:30 p.m.–2:40 p.m.
McAlpin Rehearsal Hall, Woolworth Music Center
Jeffrey Werbock
“Mugham: The Music of Azerbaijan”
Lecture and live performance
Sponsored by the Department and Program of Near Eastern Studies and the Münir Ertegün Fund
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Adam Sabra
Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Sufis and Politicians in Sixteenth Century Egypt "
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
4:30 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Robert Gleave
Visiting Mellon Scholar, University of Chicago
Professor of Arabic Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
“Literalism and Legitimate Violence in Early Islamic Legal Thought”
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
12:00-1:20pm
Jones 102
12:00-1:20pm
Jones 102
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Joel Blecher (Religion)
Presenter: Joel Blecher (Religion)
“In the Sultan's Garden: Ḥadīth Commentary In the Presence of Patrons, Students and Rivals”
Discussant: Christian Sahner (History)
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Monday, March 11, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Robertson Hall Bowl 016
“The Impact of the 2013 Israeli Elections on the Middle East Peace Process”
A Panel Discussion with
Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, Lecturer in Public and International Affairs and S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor in Middle East Policy Studies and Yael Berda, Israeli Constitutional Lawyer and PhD Candidate in Sociology
Moderated by Professor Amaney Jamal
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School , Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Workshop on Arab Political Development
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Barbara Bodine
Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, WWS
Director, Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative
Director, Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative
“Talk Therapy—Yemen, the National Dialogue and Prospects for Transition”
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Cuma, 15 Mart 2013
12.00 noon–1.10 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Turkish Language Lunch Talk
Engin Yılmaz
Sakarya Üniversitesi
“Sait Faik ve Öykü Tekniği”
Öğle yemeği ve konuşma
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Michael Laffan
Professor of History, Princeton University
“Islam and Exile in the 18th Century Indian Ocean”
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
4:30 p.m.
100 Jones Hall
Samir Makdisi
Professor Emeritus, American University of Beirut
“On Autocracy and the Transition Towards Democracy in the Arab Region”
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
12:00-1:20pm
Jones 102
12:00-1:20pm
Jones 102
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Elizabeth Nugent (Politics)
Presenter: Elizabeth Nugent (Politics)
“What Drives Preferences for Shari`a? Evidence from 10 Muslim Countries”
Discussant: Edna Bonhomme (History)
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Cuma, 5 Nisan 2013
12:00 noon-1:10 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Turkish Language Lunch Talk/Öğle Yemeği ve Konuşma
Nilüfer Hatemi
“Arşiv Belgeleri Işığında bir Binanın Öyküsü: Kırım Kilisesi, Beyoğlu İstanbul”
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Monday, April 08, 2013
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
McCormick Hall, Room 106
The Islamic Case for Same-Sex Love
A panel event featuring Muslim-American LGBT activists Faisal Alam, Urooj Arshad, and Daayiee Abdullah
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Fields Center, LGBT Center, Office of Religious Life, Pride Alliance, and Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Giacomo Luciani
Princeton Global Scholar and the Transregional Institute
“Resource Blessed: the GCC Development Experience”
Beverages, potato chips and cookies will be provided
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
4:30 p.m.
100 Jones Hall
Mohammad Fadel
Associate Professor of Law, University of Toronto
“Agency and the Idea of Public Law in Sunni Legal Thought”
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
4:30 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
M.A. Final Public Oral Examination of Benjamin W. Buchholz
Dissertation title: “Al-Mughīra Bin Shu‘Ba Al-Thaqafī - A Life in Truth and Parable”
Examining committee: M. Şükrü Hanioğlu and Hossein Modarressi
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Friday and Saturday, April 12–13, 2013
Starts at 9:30 both days
Seminar Room
Center for the Study of Religion
5 Ivy Lane
PISC Graduate Student Conference
"'Failure' in Islamic Reform"
To register, please email us at pisc@princeton.edu
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012-13Neha Vora
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College
“Expat/Expert Camps: Toward a New Ethnography of Gulf Labor Migration”
Beverages, potato chips and cookies will be provided.
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THE 35TH ANNUAL CAROLYN L. DRUCKER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Tuesday,April 16, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Room 101, McCormick Hall
Hasia R. Diner
Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University
Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History
“Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration and the Peddlers Who Made It Possible”
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson School
Robertson Hall - Bowl One
M. Levent Bilgen
Consul General of the Republic of Turkey
“Turkish Foreign Policy and Economic Issues in the 21st Century”
Presented by the Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies
& The M. Münir Ertegün Ertegun Foundation
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Monday, April 22, 2013
4:30pm
East Pyne 010
H. Akın Ünver
Department of International Relations
Kadir Has University, Istanbul
“How Turkey’s Islamists Fell out of Love with Iran – and the Near Future of
Turkish-Iranian Relations”
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Noora Anwar Lori
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Harvard University
“Offshore Citizenship: A Market Solution to the ‘Problem’ of Migrant Incorporation”
Beverages, potato chips and cookies will be provided.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:30 p.m.
100 Jones Hall
Giacomo Luciani
Princeton Global Scholar, Visiting Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and The Transregional Institute in the Department of Near Eastern Studies
"Arab Businesses and the Revolution"
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Aaron Rock-Singer (NES)
Presenter: Aaron Rock-Singer (NES)
Paper title: "The Medium and the Message: The Rise of Islamic Magazines and the Formation of the Islamic Revival in Egypt, 1976–1981"
Discussant: Sarah El-Kazaz (POL)
Further Information: http://www.princeton.edu/~pisc/
Further Information: http://www.princeton.edu/~pisc/
A light lunch will be served
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Brown Bag Lunch Series 2012–13
Eric Chaney
Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University
“The Evolution of Intellectual Production in the pre-Ottoman Middle East: Empirical Evidence from Hajji Khalifa's Kashf al-Zunun”
Beverages, potato chips and cookies will be provided.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2 Robertson Hall
Workshop on Arab Political Development
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2 Robertson Hall
Workshop on Arab Political Development
Lisa Wedeen
University of Chicago
“Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria”
Cosponsored with the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.
“Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria”
Cosponsored with the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.
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Thursday, May, 2, 2013
11:00 a.m.
102 Jones Hall
Ph.D. Final Public Oral Examination
Lev E. Weitz
Dissertation Title:
“Syriac Christians in the Medieval Islamic World: Law, Family, and Society”
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Thursday May 2, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
LISD Crisis Diplomacy Seminar
Arman Grigoryan
Assistant Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University
"War and Democracy: How the Karabagh Conflict Destroyed Armenia's Transition"
Sponsored by Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination with the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Please RSVP to matheney@princeton.edu
Space is Limited
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Cuma, 3 Mayıs 2013
12:00 noon–1 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Turkish Language Talk
(Presented In Turkish)
David Sayers
Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
"Osmanlı'da Kadın ve Erkek: Tıfli Hikayeleri Örneği"
Öğle yemeği ve konuşma
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Friday May 3, 2013
12:00 Noon
Bendheim 012
LISD Crisis Diplomacy Seminar
Special Panel: “Security and Conflict in the South Caucasus”
Dr. Gulshan Pashayeva, Dr. Kamal Makili-Aliyev, Dr. Farhad Mammadov, Dr. Heydar Mirza
Centre for Strategic Studies (SAM), Baku, Azerbaijan
Sponsored by Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination with the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Please RSVP to matheney@princeton.edu
Space is Limited
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12:00 noon
102 Jones Hall
M.A. Final Public Oral Examination
Katie M. Manbachi
Thesis Title:
"The Evolution of Ayatollah Montazeri's Doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih"
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
11:00 a.m.
102 Jones Hall
M.A. Final Public Oral Examination
Alexandra Buckey
Thesis Title:
“ Oil Journalism and Secular Dissent in Modern Arab Media”
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
4:30 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Zafar Najmiddinov
Visiting Fellow, NES, Princeton University
“Hanafi Works as Sources for the History of Central Asia”
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Oded Zinger (NES)
Presenter: Oded Zinger (NES)
Paper title: “‘I do not Accept This.’ Women in Front of Geniza Courts”
A light lunch will be served
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
12:00 noon–1:20 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium
Presenter: Teije Hidde Donker (European University Institute/Visiting Student NES)
Paper title: "Mobilization Mechanisms of an Islamist Resurgence: Comparing Syria and Tunisia"
Discussant: Eric Lob (NES)
Further Information: http://www.princeton.edu/~pisc/
Further Information: http://www.princeton.edu/~pisc/
A light lunch will be served
CLASS DAY RECEPTION
Monday, June 3, 2013
3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
1915 Hall
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