NELC PAST EVENTS

OCT 20: Heather Rastovac (our Student Highlight this quarter) and Sonja Hinz are scheduled to perform a half hour dance set rooted in the dance traditions of Iran and Tajikistan, between 3:00-4:00 PM, Turkfest, Seattle Center House Stage

OCT 20 - 21: Turkfest, at the Seattle Center

OCT 31: 12:30-1:30 Karam Dana, "Muslim in America: Conflicting Identities?," NELC Brown Bag lunch series (NELC lounge, 215A)

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NOV 29: Olga Borovaya, (Jewish Studies, Stanford University) "Dynamics of Ladino Literature in the Ottoman Empire, 16th-20th Centuries" 1:30-3:00, Communications 202

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DEC 4: Prof. George Nickelsburg, "Books that Didn't Make It into the Bible" 1:30 PM, Kane Hall 110

DEC 6: Prof. Donald Malcolm Reid, "Claiming the Pharaohs:
Imperialism, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Egyptian Archaeology" 6:30 PM, Thomson Hall 101

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JAN 16: Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize and the World of Turkish Literature a Conversation with Walter G. Andrews, 7 - 8:30 p.m., Seattle Public Library - Central Branch. Event poster (pdf file); mp3 recording of the event (~56 mb).

JAN 17 - 18: Medieval Islamic Mysticism and History in Indo-Persian Cultures, 9:45 a.m. - 5:15 p.m., Parrington Hall, the Forum and the Commons. Event poster (pdf file).

JAN 24: Scott Noegel will talk informally at the Simpson Center for the Humanities about his recent book, Nocturnal Ciphers: The Punning Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East (American Oriental Series 89; New Haven, CT.: American Oriental Society, 2007)

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FEB 7: Charles Krusekopf (Executive Director, American Institute for Mongolian Studies), "Mongolia's Common Property: Resources and the Challenges of Economic Development." 3:30 p.m., Communications 120.

FEB 8: Charles Krusekopf (director of the American Institute for Mongolian Studies, Vancouver, Canada) "Research Opportunities in Mongolia",12:30-1:20, Denny 215A (Subject to change).

FEB 12: Daniel Schroeter (History, University of California at Irvine) "Who are the Jews of Morocco? The Origins and Identity of the Rural Communities." 12:00-1:30 p.m., Communications 202.

ALSO FEB 12: Kazim Abdullaev of the Institute of Archaeology in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) will speak on "The Imagery and Cult of Hercules in Central Asia." Location: Mary Gates Hall, room 241. Time: 3:30-5 PM

About the speaker: Dr. Abdullaev is a distinguished scholar of the archaeology and material culture of Central Asia. He has excavated at Dura Europos in Syria, at Merv in Turkmenistan, and at ancient Samarkand and numerous other sites in southern Uzbekistan. During his current tenure as a Fulbright scholar in Seattle and Princeton, he hopes to complete a two-volume book on the seals of pre-Islamic Central Asia.

FEB 14: Brian Curran (Associate Professor of Art History, Pennsylvania State University) "The Egyptian Renaissance: the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy," 6:30 p.m., Art 317.

FEB 21: Professor Thomas Schneider, University of Wales, Swansea, "Doom and
Deliverance: Foreign Tales in Ramesside Egypt." 6:30 PM, Thomson Hall 101

FEB 23: Afrassiabi Distinguished Lecturer, Barbara Slavin, "Missed Opportunities Between Iran and the United States and the Way Ahead". 7:00 p.m., in Kane Hall 120. Barbara Slavin is the senior diplomatic Correspondent for USA Today since 1996 and the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.

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APR 13, Professors Mahmoud al-Batal and Kristen Brustad, both University of Texas at Austin, will conduct a workshop on "Teaching Near Eastern Languages."

APR 25-27, The Annual Conference of the American Research Center in Egypt, Grand Hyatt, Seattle.

APR 30, Joshua Schreier (History, Vassar College), "Polygamy and Empire: Civilizing the Jewish Family in Colonial Algeria," 1:30-3:00, Thomson 317.

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.MAY 6, Frank Vogel, Harvard Law School, "Shari`a as Law and Legal System: Changing Perceptions." Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture. 7 pm at the Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. Driving and parking directions (pdf file) Event poster (pdf file).

MAY 8, Yitzhak Laor, Jessie and John Danz Lecturer, "The Place Where Even Jews Can Be As White As Paul Newman" 7:00PM, Kane 130.

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JUN 2, Professor Yair Hoffman, Tel Aviv University, "The Book of Job as a Trial: A Perspective from a Comparison to Some Relevant Ancient Near Eastern Texts." 3:30 PM, Denny 304.

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