Past Events
SPRING 2023
A Conversation Featuring Hassan Aourid (Author) and Brahim El Guabli (Williams College), with an introduction by Aomar Boum (UCLA) – May 3, 2023
Historical Imaginings: North African Jews in Literary Worlds (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/16138)
Daniel Schroeter (University of Minnesota) – May 16, 2023
The Colonial Dhimmi: Islamic Sovereignty and the Making of the Indigenous Jew in Protectorate Morocco (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/16177)
WINTER 2023
A book talk by Emily Gottreich (University of California Berkeley) – Tuesday, February 14, 2023
In Search of Jewish Morocco (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15948)
Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) – February 23, 2023
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15914)Transnational Jewish Networks in Hashemite Iraq: Diaspora, Development and Interdependence (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15914)
Jonathan Glasser (College of William & Mary) – January 12, 2023
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15915)More Than Friends: Muslims, Jews, and Musical Intimacy Between Algeria and France (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15915)
SPRING 2022
Joshua Schreier (Fordham University) – May 26, 2022
Ben Badis' Jews: Islamic Reform and Colonial Subjecthood in Interwar Algeria (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/article/257492)
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/257492) (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/video/257492)
WINTER 2022
Lital Levy (Princeton University) – March 3, 2022
Esther Azhari Moyal: Writer, Feminist, and Jewish Activist in the Ottoman Arab World, 1892-1913 (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15373)
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/257509) (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/video/257509)
FALL 2021
Daniella Farah (Rice University) – November 4, 2021
Jews and Education in Modern Iran: Identity, Integration, and National Belonging
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/257653) (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/video/257653)
WINTER 2021
Jessica Marglin (USC) – January 14, 2021
Jews and Legal Belonging in the Modern Mediterranean: The Life and Afterlife of Nissim Shamama (1805-1873) (http: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/14173)
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/234789) (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/video/234789)
WINTER 2020
Marina Rustow (Princeton University) – January 21, 2020
Lost Archives, Sacrosanct Wastebins and the Jewish Communities of the Medieval Islamicate World (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/14109)
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/215369) (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/video/215369)
FALL 2019
Chris Silver (McGill University) – October 30, 2019
Recording the Maghrib: Jews, Muslims, and Music in the 20th Century (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/13945)
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/212710) (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/video/212710)
SPRING 2019
Oren Kosansky (Lewis & Clark College) – May 15, 2019
Mahia on the Market: On the History of a Moroccan Jewish Commodity (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/13273)
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/203508) (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/video/203508)
Michelle Campos (University of Florida) – April 15, 2019
Unmixing the Holy City: Urban Coex-istence and Segregation in Early 20th Century Jerusalem (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/13668)
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/202736) (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/video/202736)
WINTER 2019
Ari Ariel (University of Iowa) – January 22, 2019
Yearning for Yemen: Migration and Memory (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/13545)
SPRING 2018
Lior Sternfeld (Ben Gurion University) – April 16, 2018
Between Equal Citizenship and the Promise of Redemption: Iranian Jewish Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/13139)
(http: //www.international.ucla.edu/media/files/Sternfeld.final-for-web-0q-5fs.pdf)
WINTER 2018
Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University) – January 22, 2018
Between the Ottoman Empire and Italy: The Jews of Rhodes 1880-1936 (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/12897)
(http: //www.international.ucla.edu/media/files/Rodrigue.final-for-web-rz-iwh.pdf)
FALL 2017
Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University) – November 8, 2017
A Model Minority? Sephardi Jews in the Late Ottoman Empire (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/12703)
(http: //www.international.ucla.edu/media/files/Cohen-Model-Minority-ty-2sw.pdf)
SPRING 2017
Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) – May 8, 2017
Beyond Honor and Shame: Rabbin-ic Control of Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt
(https: //www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/averroes/podcast/175767) 
WINTER 2017
Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) – February 16, 2017
A Baghdadi-Jewish Childhood: Jew-ish Muslim Relations in Iraq, 1931-1951