Syria's Muslim Brothers: Shifting Fortunes- Changing Platforms
A Lecture by Fred Lawson
Thursday, May 01, 2008 at 12:00PM
Featured in (or part of) Spring Lecture Series
Location: Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by Political Science Department, and The Middle East Studies Center
Additional Information: Dr. Lawson is a Professor of Government at Mills Collegeis Frederick A. Rice Professor of Government at Mills College, where he has taught international relations and Middle East politics since 1985. His interests include international relations, international political economy, politics of the Middle East and North Africa, and comparative foreign policy. See a streaming video of this event.
Jellyfish
A film by Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 7:00PM
Location: Wexner Center, 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by Columbus Jewish Federation, and The Middle East Studies Center
The Contribution of Oriental Scholars to the Formation of Oriental Studies in the West
A Lecture by Karl Pinggéra
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 4:00PM
Location: "Hagerty Hall, rm 306", 1775 College Rd. , Columbus, OH
Sponsored by The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and The Middle East Studies Center
Additional Information: Karl Pinggéra is Professor for Eastern Christian History at the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Marburg. Pinggéra earned his "Dr. Theol." from Marburg University in 2002. His previous position was as a research assistant at the University of Bonn (2000-2002) where he took part in the edition of the World Chronicle of Julius Africanus. His areas of interest include the history and theology of the Eastern-Oriental churches in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, the legacy of Syriac Christian mysticism, as well as the history of ecumenical relations between Protestant and Orthodox churches.
Kurdish Traditional Narrative
A Lecture by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 12:00PM
Location: Dulles 308, 230 W 17th Ave, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and The Middle East Studies Center
Additional Information: Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler in an Associate Professor of Comparative Religions at Western Michigan University
Voices of African Storytellers: The Jie People of Uganda and the Turkana People of Kenya
A Lecture by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 4:00PM
Location: Denney 311, 164 W 17th Ave, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by Center for Folklore Studies, and The Middle East Studies Center
Turkish-EU Relations
A Lecture by Salih Memecan
Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 6:00PM
Location: Mendenhall Labs 100, 125 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by Scioto Education Foundation, and The Middle East Studies Center
Additional Information: Salih Memecan is a prominent Turkish cartoonist. Memecan's daily agenda includes a political cartoon strip, Bizimcity, on the front page, a comics cartoon strip, Sizinkiler, on the back page of the daily Sabah newspaper. The animated version of Bizimcity takes place daily on the prime-time news program on ATV. Memecan also submits weekly cartoons to Aktuel, news magazine. He created his cartoon strip Sizinkiler 17 years ago. Today, it has become the most popular cartoon strip with over 1.8 million in book sales. Salih Memecan received his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbright scholar (1983). His BA and MA degrees in architecture are from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. His cartoons appeared in major U.S. newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Inquirer.
International Careers Week
Monday, May 12, 2008 through "Friday, May 16, 2008"
Not mutually exclusive: Religion and secularizing trends in Ottoman Tanzimat public education
A Lecture by Randi Deguilhem
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 4:30PM
Featured in (or part of) Ottoman History Lecture Series
Location: Jennings 160, 1735 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by The Department of History, and The Middle East Studies Center
Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World
A Lecture by Amaney Jamal
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 12:00PM
Featured in (or part of) Spring Lecture Series
Location: Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by Political Science Department, and The Middle East Studies Center
Additional Information: Amaney Jamal is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Her current research focuses on democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Arab World. She extends her research to the study of Muslim and Arab Americans, examining the pathways that structure their patterns of civic engagement in the United States.
65 Years of International Study at The Ohio State University
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 3:30PM
Location: 100 Independence Hall, 1923 Neil Ave Mall, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by OIA, and The Middle East Studies Center
Letters in Gold: History and Styles of Arabic Calligraphy
A Workshop lead by Nihad Dukhan
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 12:30PM
Location: 50 Hagerty Hall, 1775 S College Rd, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by NELC, Arabic Language and Culture Club, and The Middle East Studies Center
Leila Khaled: Hijacker
A Film by Lina Makboul
Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 7:00pm
Location: Wexner Center, 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH
