SPRING 2017 EVENT CALENDAR For more information on each event, visit: http://middleeaststudies.duke.edu Panel Discussion with Zachary Lockman (NYU) “Contending Visions of the Middle East” February 24 12:00 PM Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Dissident Subjects: A Conference in Honor of miriam cooke April 6–8 Please visit our website for more details Wednesdays @ the Center: miriam cooke (Duke University) “The War Against Rape as a Weapon of War” March 1 12:00 PM JHFC, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240 Public Lecture: Zachary Lockman (NYU) — “Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States” February 23 6:00 PM Thomas Room Lilly Library, East Campus Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein January 30 6:00 PM Public Lecture: Cüneyt Özdemir (CNN Türk) “Journalism and Politics in Turkey” A Conversation with Cüneyt Özdemir (CNN Türk) “The Media under Turkey’s Justice and Development Party” February 1 6:30 PM Nasher Auditorium Nasher Museum of Art Public Lecture: Mostafa Minawi (Cornell) — “International Law for the Weak State: The Case of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century ” February 27 12:00 PM Boyd Seminar Room 229 Carr Building Panel Discussion with Palestinian Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat “Palestine and US Relations” March 7 12:00 PM Forum for Scholars and Publics, West Campus Public Lecture: Palestinian Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat “Bilateral Negotiations: Two-state Solution vs One-state Solution” March 7 6:00 PM Social Sciences Rm 139 West Campus Public Lecture: Ina Merdjanova (Trinity College, Dublin) — “Muslim Women in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism” March 28 6:00 PM Public Lecture: Behrooz Ghamari (University of Illinois) “Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution” April 10 6:00 PM TBD Semester Long 7:00 PM Richard White Auditorium East Campus Documenting the Middle East Film Festival Censored Voices • Defiance • On the Bride’s Side Remake Remix Rip-Off • The Wanted 18 Globalizing the Novel: Anna Bernard (Kings College London) “Hebrew, Arabic, and Death: Palestine/Israel and the Global Novel” March 9 10:30 AM FHI Garage Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 Duke-UNC Islamic & Middle East Studies Graduate Student Conference “Affect in Dissent: Past and Present” March 4–5 Campus Y Reading Room UNC Chapel Hill TBD