Calendar
Results For Spring Quarter: 3/20/2013 - 6/15/2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Diyarbekir 1915: Deportations, Massacres and New Alliances Among the Local Elites
A lecture by Ayhan Aktar, Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey). Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
4:00 PM 
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy (Lecture in Persian) - EVENT CANCELLED
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 01, 2013
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy (Lecture in English)
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Return of the Brothers: Student Activism and Islamic Politics in 1970s Egypt
A lecture by Abdullah Al-Arian,Wayne State University.
4:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Migration and Sociopolitical Mobility in Africa and the African Diasporas International Conference Honoring Edward A. Alpers (Day 1)
Conference in honor of distinguished UCLA History Professor Edward A. Alpers
8:30 AM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, April 12, 2013
Migration and Sociopolitical Mobility in Africa and the African Diasporas International Conference Honoring Edward A. Alpers (Day 2)
Conference in honor of distinguished UCLA History Professor Edward A. Alpers
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, April 13, 2013
April 13 Conference: Challenges and achievements in community language schools
This conference will bring together specialists from the UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center with teachers, administrators, and parents from local community language schools to advance the goal of heritage language development.
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 15, 2013
Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Perspectives on Peace, Health & Hope: A Gaza Doctor's Journey from Personal Tragedy to a Search for Peace and Human Dignity
A public talk by Palestinian medical doctor and humanitarian Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, author of “I Shall Not Hate”. Dr. Abuelaish has devoted his life to peace and reconciliation, especially promoting health and education as strategies for resolving violent conflicts.
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Jaffa: The Orange's Clockwork (2010)
Documentary film screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA. Final film of the quarterly film series "Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography."
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet
A lecture by Murat Cankara, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 29, 2013
Book Talk: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Afghan Studies Book Talk with Author William Dalrymple
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Continuity and Change in the Cultural Legacy of Qajar Era
A lecture by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, May 06, 2013
Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran and resistance to the British Raj
A lecture by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Historical Critique and the Thresholds of Political Voice After the Ottoman Empire
A CPSC lecture by Kabir Tambar, Stanford University, Anthropology.
12:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Singing, Chanting, and Chatter: Street Sounds and Songs of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
A lecture by Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period
A lecture by Michael Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Mostafa Sho‘aiyan: The Forgotten Revolutionary and the Possibility of Unified Action
A lecture by Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela
A lecture by Waïl S. Hassan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
4:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders
A conference to honor the career of Professor Ismail Poonawala.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Egypt’s Search for Regime Security and the Failure in the making of the U.S.-Egypt Cold War Alliance During the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years
A lecture by Kangsuk Kim, Fulbright Visiting Graduate Researcher from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
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