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LECTURES
TUESDAY EVENING LECTURE PROGRAMME ON THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST 2009/10
Tuesdays, 5.30pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
All lectures in this series are free and open to all
Tea and biscuits are available from 5.00pm
9 February
Between the Languages of Silence and the Woman’s Word: Gender and Language in the Work of Assia Djebar
Zahia Salhi, University of Leeds
Chair: Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS
16 February
READING WEEK
23 February
The Global Jihad: Disentangling Myth from Reality?
Fawaz Gerges, LSE
Chair: Charles Tripp, SOAS
2 March
Islamism and its Discontents
Roger Hardy, BBC World Service
Chair: TBC
For further information: E vp6@soas.ac.uk
Organised by the London Middle East Institute, SOAS (LMEI).
OCCASIONAL LECTURES
Society for Arabian Studies Lecture
'That Was How We Lived': reconstructing urban space and everyday life in pre-oil Kuwait
Farah Al-Nakib, SOAS
5.30pm, Wednesday 17 February 2010
Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Over the course of nearly 250 years, from the time of its settlement in the early 18th century until the advent of oil urbanization in the 1950s, Kuwait town grew into a thriving maritime urban centre. This lecture will aim to trace the socio-spatial growth, layout, and organization of urban space and to analyse the patterns and practice of everyday life in Kuwait before the advent of oil.
For further information: E j.onley@exeter.ac.uk W www.societyforarabianstudies.org
Organised by the Society for Arabian Studies in association with the London Middle East Institute,SOAS (LMEI). Sponsored by the Kuwaiti Embassy.
The Media(tion) of Palestinian ID Cards
Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University
5.30pm, Monday 22 February 2010
Room B104, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Admission Free - All Welcome
In Israel/Palestine, colour-coded and biometric identification cards form an important nexus of power. This talk traces the development of the modern-day incarnation of the Palestinian ID card and, along with photographs from ethnographic field-work, the argument is made that ID cards function as a form of media: they are contradictory, interpreted in various ways, hegemonic and sometimes used as objects of resistance, and are records of a particular culture at a particular time. Chair: Dina Matar, SOAS.
For further information: T 020 7898 4490 E vp6@soas.ac.uk
Organised by the London Middle East Institute, SOAS (LMEI).
SEMINARS
Seminars on Turkey Winter Term 2010
Meetings on Fridays 12.00-2.00pm
Room 116, SOAS (unless otherwise noted*)
22 January
Fake Brands and Authenticity in Istanbul: Flrlama's life story
Magda Craciun, UCL
5 February
Tevfik Fikret: a century of controversy
Bengisu Rona, SOAS
11 March
Special Joint Session in conjunction with the LSE’s Contemporary Turkish Studies Programme
Time, State and Society in the late Ottoman Empire and Kemalist Turkey*
François Georgeon, CNRS/EHESS, Paris
[NB: To be held in the Brunei Suite on the ground floor of the Brunei Gallery, SOAS at 5.30pm]
12 March
Identity Politics in Istanbul: electoral behaviour in the Turkish megalopolis
Michelangelo Guida, Fatih University, Istanbul
For further information T 020 7898 4431 E bp@soas.ac.uk
Convened by Benjamin Fortna, SOAS. Organised by the SOAS Modern Turkish Studies Programme (London Middle East Institute, SOAS). Sponsored by Nurol Bank.
COURSE
Monday 19 – Friday 23 April 2010
Political Islam:
global and local manifestations and challenges
A one week course offered by The London Middle East Institute, SOAS and SOAS Enterprise. Convened by Dr Khaled Hroub & Dr Sarah Stewart.
Despite its political centrality, Islamism remains poorly understood, partly because of its very complexity and controversial aspects, and partly because of sweeping generalisations and misrepresentations by the media. The purposes of this course are to enable participants to better understand the various components of Islamism, their contemporary political significance at the global, regional, national and subnational levels, and the likely future directions for the movement in those contexts. Please click here for further details.
