[Hum_Calendar_Events] Center for Near Eastern Studies eNewsletter Spring 2012

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Spring 2012 Calendar of Events

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Spotlight Event:

2012 Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9388>

A two-day conference honoring the scholarship of Professor Roger Owen

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Thursday, May 24, Time TBA
Friday, May 25, Time TBA
Sequoia Room, UCLA Faculty Center

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Structures of Personalized Power in the Modern Middle East: Presidents, Prime Ministers and Party Bosses

Keynote: Roger Owen, Harvard, University

Speakers include:
Mohammed Bamyeh, University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University
Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond
John Chalcraft, The London School of Economics
Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
David Lesch, Trinity University
Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University
Jillian Schwedler, University of Massachusetts
Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck College, University of London

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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9159>

An exhibition to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the bombing of the historic heart of Baghdad's intellectual and literary community

Exhibit on display March 5 - April 30, 2012
Powell Library Building Rotunda

Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, Dean of Humanities Fund

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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: Poetry by Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan <http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9345>

Ghassan Zaqtan, Poet and Fady Joudah, University of Houston

Wednesday, April 4, 4:30 PM
Powell Library Building East Rotunda

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Library, Dean of Humanities Fund, UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Dept., Comparative Literature Dept., International Poets in Conversation, Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute's Consortium Tour

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Rethinking Armenian History through Paradigms of Interaction: The Armenian Experience with Islam as Case Study<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9256>

Seta Dadoyan, Yerevan State University

Thursday, April 12, 4 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Sponsored by the UCLA Program in Armenian Language and Culture

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The Modern Recovery of the Ismaili Legacy and Its Importance for the Study of the Fatimids<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9188>

Paul Walker, University of Chicago

Thursday, April 19, 3 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

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Iran and the Arab Spring: What is next?<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9236>

Mohamad Hossein Hafezian, Montclair State University

*Lecture in Persian

Sunday, April 22, 5 PM
121 Dodd Hall

*Lecture in English

Monday, April 23, 3PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Bilingual Lecture Series

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Living History with Professor James L. Gelvin and his newly released book, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9390>

Panel includes:
Steve Aron, UCLA
James L. Gelvin, UCLA
Kristen Hillaire Glasgow, UCLA
Brian Kovalesky, UCLA

Tuesday, April 24, 4 PM
306 Royce Hall

Co-sponsored by the UCLA History Graduate Student Association

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The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9290>

Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia

Thursday, April 26, 3 PM
10367 Bunche Hall

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Sayyid Zia, the First or Second Man of the Coup? <http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9391>

Sadreddin Elahi, Independent Journalist and Writer

*Lecture in Persian

Sunday, April 29, 4 PM
147 Dodd Hall

Bilingual Lecture Series

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Urban Renewal and its Discontents: IBA 1984/87 <http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9306>

Esra Akcan, University of Illinois at Chicago

Monday, May 7, 12 PM
10367 Bunche Hall

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Art History Department

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Making Citizens and Contesting Citizenship in Late Ottoman Palestine <http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9291>

Michelle Campos, University of Florida

Tuesday, May 8, 3 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Historiography of the Middle East

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Jews in the Algerian War: Whose Compatriots? <http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9343>

Sung Choi, UCLA

Wednesday, May 9, 3 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

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Civility and Sectarianism in Syria: What Now?<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9392>

Lindsay Gifford, UCLA

Tuesday, May 15, 3 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=8965>

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Rethinking Food Provisioning in Complex Societies and Urban Centers: If Animal Bones Could Only Talk<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9340>

Levent Atici, University of Nevada

Friday, May 18, 4 PM
A222 Fowler Museum

Sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

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Findings from the George Washington University Coptic Diaspora Survey: Implications for Egypt and its Development<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9393>

Speakers Include:
Jennifer Brinkerhoff, George Washington University
Stephen Commins, UCLA
H.G. Bishop Serapion, Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California and Hawaii

Friday, May 18, 4 PM
A222 Fowler Museum

Sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

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News

President Obama presents UCLA professor with prestigious National Humanities Medal<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/news/article.asp?parentid=124365>

UCLA historian's book looks at Arab uprisings, their common origins and different paths<http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/news/article.asp?parentid=123969>

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