Spotlight Events:
Friday, October 28, 9AM – 6:30pm
California Room, Faculty Center
Reception to follow.
Gender, Art, and Social Movements in the Middle East and Global South -
A conference and reception in honor of
Professor Sondra Hale, UCLA
Conference Participants:
• Rogaia AbuSharaf, Georgetown University
• Azza Basarudin, Harvard University
• Janice Boddy, University of Toronto
• Esha De, UCLA
• Lara Deeb, Scripps College
• Amal Fadlalla, University of Michigan
• Ellen Gruenbaun, Purdue University
• Sherine Hafez, UC Riverside
• Grace Hong, UCLA
• Suad Jospeh, UC Davis
• Sharmila Lodhia, University of Santa Clara
• Purnima Mankekar, UCLA
• Bayard Lyons, Independent Scholar
• Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
• Khanum Shaikh, UC Postdoc
• Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
• UCLA Graduate Student Roundtable
Co-sponsored by Alessandro Duranti - UCLA Dean of Social Sciences, UCLA’s Dept. of Anthropology, Center for the Study of Women, Dept. of Women’s Studies, African Studies Center, UC Riverside's Dept. of Women’s Studies
Sunday, November 20, 5pm
Dodd 147
Derakht-e Sokhangoo [The Talking Tree: On Iranian Mythology]
Bahram Beyzai, Film/Theatre Director, Screen/Play writer, Researcher
*Lecture in Persian
Monday, November 21, 7pm
2160E Broad Hall
A Night with Bahram Beyzai -
Short film screening and discussion with Bahram Beyzai, Film/Theatre Director, Screen/Play writer, Researcher
*Lecture in Persian
Bahram Beyzai, born 26 December 1938 in Tehran is a prominent Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer, and researcher. Beyzai is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave that started in the late 1960s and includes other pioneering directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Sales, and Parviz Kimiavi.
Bilingual Lecture Series
Sunday, October 2 – Monday, October 3
314 Royce Hall
Non-Muslim Communities in Fatimid Egypt: The Dhimmi Experience, Islamization, and Negotiating Power -
A two-day international colloquium
Sponsored by UCLA’s Dept. of Comparative Literature / Co- sponsored by UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Study of Religion, Center for Medieval and Renaissance History, Andrew Mellon Fund, Humanities Division, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Graduate Division, Dept. of History, Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
Monday, October 3, 3pm
10383 Bunche Hall
On Libya - A joint talk by Aslı Bâli and James Gelvin,UCLA
Thursday, October 6, 4:30pm
10383 Bunche Hall
Men Who Tiptoe Into Their Marital Bedrooms: A Meditation on the Reality of the Novelist in a Time of Revolution - Hisham Matar, Barnard College
Thursday, October 13, Time TBA
Location: TBA
Controversies Concerning the Arabic and Berber Languages in Spain - Mohamed Madkouri, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain
Sponsored by UCLA's Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
Friday, October 14, 1pm
Broad Hall 2160E
The Future of Christianity in the Middle East - H.H. Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia
Co-sponsored by the UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion, Dept. of History, Armenian Students’ Association, International Institute
Friday, October 14 - Sunday, October 15
306 & 314 Royce Hall
Fashion - Queer Studies Conference 2011
Sponsored by the UCLA LGBT Studies Program
Wednesday, October 19, 3pm
10383 Bunche Hall
War Stories of Arab Americans - Gregory Orfalea, Westmont College and California Lutheran University
October 21 – 23
Writer Guild Theater 135 So. Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills
Arab Film Festival 2011
Sunday, October 23 and Monday, October 24
12:00 pm, UCLA Bunche Hall, room 10383
New Approaches to Algerian Jewish Studies (by invitation only)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
Tuesday, October 25, 3pm
10383 Bunche Hall
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab- Israeli War of Narratives - Gilbert Achcar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Sunday, October 30, 5pm
118 Haines Hall
Hoviyat-ha-ye sayyal: Paziresh Eslam va a'in-e Baha'i dar miyan-e Yahoudian-e Iran
[Negotiating Identities: Iranian Jews Conversion to Islam and the Baha’i faith]-
Mehrdad Amanat, Independent Scholar and Writer
*Lecture in Persian
Wednesday, November 2, 12pm
10383 Bunche Hall
Negotiating Identities: Iranian Jews Conversion to Islam and the Baha’i faith
*Lecture in English
Bilingual Lecture Series
Thursday, November 3, 3pm
10383 Bunche Hall
Qur'an and Elocutionary Union in the Alhambra - Richard Serrano, Rutgers University
Tuesday, November 8, 3pm
10383 Bunche Hall
Whose War? Whose Holy War? The Middle East and the First World War - Mustafa Aksakal, Georgetown University
Historiography of the Middle East Lecture Series
Thursday, November 10, 5pm
6275 Bunche Hall
Taking Stock: The Arab Uprisings on the Eve of Their First Anniversary - A joint talk by James Gelvin, UCLA and Juan Cole, University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by UCLA Dept. of History
Monday, November 14, 5pm
1357 School of Law
After a Decade of the "War on Terror": The Middle East, Human Rights and American Muslims -
A roundtable with Aslı Bâli, UCLA; Lisa Hajjar, UCSB; and Ahilan Arulanantham, ACLU Southern California
Thursday, November 17, 3pm
10383 Bunche Hall
Making Biblical Prophets Islamic - Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Co-sponsored by UCLA’s Center for Study of Religion and Program for the Study of Religion
Thursday, November 17, time TBA
Young Research Library Presentation Room
Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes - International conference of the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Sponsored by UCLA Asia Institute and the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies |
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