Announcement
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Sondra Hale and Professor Gabriel Piterberg as Interim Co-Directors of the Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES).
Sondra Hale is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Gender Studies at UCLA; former Co-Chair of Islamic Studies IDP; and former chair of the Department of Gender Studies. She is Co-Founder and former Co-editor of The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS) and has served as President of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS). Prof. Hale has published Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism and the State (also published in Arabic in 2011) and many articles and book chapters on gendered conflict and genocide; social movements; international gender studies; the politics of memory; and diaspora studies. She is currently co-editing a book on Sudan's Killing Fields: Context for Disintegration, and she recently published a co-edited book on feminist art. In 2011 she received two special awards: a Life-Time Scholarly Achievement Award from AMEWS and another from Salmmah Women's Resource Center (Sudan) - In Recognition of Her 50 Years of Commitment and Valuable Contributions in Support of the Sudanese Women's Movement. Prof. Hale is the founder and Coordinator of California Scholars for Academic Freedom.
Gabriel Piterberg is a Professor of History at UCLA. He teaches and writes on the History of the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean; and such modern topics as Zionism, Israel/Palestine, and settler colonialism. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he published An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (the University of California Press, 2003, Turkish edition, 2005), and The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel (Verso, 2008). Prof. Piterberg writes for New Left Review and London Review of Books. He was elected the Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford (2005/6), and delivered the Leonard Stein Lectures at Balliol College, Oxford (Spring 2007).
I would like to recognize and thank Susan Slyomovics for her outstanding service as CNES Director for the past five years. Her efforts and collaborations with campus units helped to maintain a high level of participation and interest in CNES-sponsored activities despite budgetary challenges. Her energy and steadfast support of academic activity related to the Near East has been pivotal to advancing the mission of CNES as a Title VI National Resource Center and furthering its research and educational goals. We wish Susan the best in her sabbatical year.
Please join me in welcoming Professors Sondra Hale and Gabi Piterberg in their new roles in the International Institute.
Sincerely,
Cindy Fan
Interim Vice Provost for International Studies
UCLA International Institute
Calendar of Events
In The Name of Iran
A book reading by Parastou Forouhar, Artist and Author
*Lecture in Persian
Sunday, September 16, 5 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Bilingual Lecture Series
What Happens After Zionism?
Editors/authors present two new books on the Israeli/Palestinian conundrum
Thursday, September 20, 7 PM
Westwood Hills Congregational Church
1989 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles
Sponsored by the Levantine Cultural Center with support from the Council on American-Islamic Relations Los Angeles and Muslims for Progressive Values. Pacific Radio KPFK 90.7 FM is the media sponsor.
Nowhere to Turn: Abuse and Exploitation of Migrant Workers in the Arab World
Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch
Friday, October 5, 12 PM
Location TBA
Sponsored by the UCLA Program on International Migration
Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan: 1500-2014
Thomas Barfield, Boston University
Monday, October 8, 2 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room
11348 YRL, First Floor
Sponsored by UCLA's Asia Institute, Dept. of Anthropology, Charles E. Young Research Library, Keddie/Balzan Fund, as well as the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
Freedom Sailors
A book reading by Greta Berlin, Author
Tuesday, October 9, 2 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora
Saturday, October 13 – Sunday, October 14
UCLA Covel Commons
Sponsored by Iranian Alliances Across Borders, UCLA's Dept. of Anthropology and the Dean of Social Sciences
Arab Film Festival (Los Angeles)
Friday, October 19 - Sunday, October 21
Writers Guild of America Theater
135 S. Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills
For more information visit:
arabfilmfestival.org/festival_schedule.php
Nine Rubies
A book reading by Mahru Ghashghaei and Susan Snyder, Authors
*Lecture in Persian and English
Sunday, October 21, 5 PM
Location TBA
Bilingual Lecture Series
Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World
Monday, October 22, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
306 Royce Hall
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Study of Religion
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: Poetry by Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan
Ghassan Zaqtan, Poet & Fady Joudah, University of Houston
Thursday, October 25, 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Co-sponsored by UCLA's Dean of Humanities, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Dept., Comparative Literature Dept., as well as the International Poets in Conversation, Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute's consortium tour
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Izkor: Slaves of Memory (1990)
Film screening followed by discussion with Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Thursday, November 1, 6 PM
A51 Humanities Building
Part one of a quarterly film series.
Winter 2013 - Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (2003)
Spring 2013 - Jaffa, The Orange’s Clockwork (2009)
Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Ancient and Late Antique Persianate World
A two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
DAY 1: Thursday, November 8, 1 PM – 5 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
DAY 2: Friday, November 9, 1 PM – 5 PM
UC Irvine
Sponsored by UCLA's Asia Institute, Program on Central Asia, Center for Buddhist Studies, as well as the UCI Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, American Institute for Afghanistan Studies, Musa Sabi Term Chair in Iranian Studies (2004-2009)
Port Cities and Connected Histories: Global Armenian Print, 1512-1800
A conference in honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian
Friday, November 9 - Sunday, November 11
314 Royce Hall and 1200 Rolfe Hall
Sponsored by UCLA's Dept. of History, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, and the generous support of Mr. Mark Chenian
Captive Consumers? Shopping, Urban Space, and the Colonial Politics of Middle Eastern Consumption
Nancy Reynolds, Washington University in St. Louis
Tuesday, November 13, 3 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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