PAST EVENTS ARCHIVE

October 22: "For Those Who Sail to Heaven," a film about a Muslim saint's festival in contemporary Egypt. To be held on Thursday, 22 October 2009, 6:30-8:00 p.m. co-sponsored by NELC and ARCE.

October 29:
Xinjiang: Behind the Violence
China Studies Program | East Asia Center | East Asia Resource Center

• "Chinese Demographic Politics and Language Policy in Xinjiang: Language as a Core Value of Uyghur Ethnic Identity," Talant Mawkanuli, University of Washington
• "Han-Uyghur Ethnic Strife in China: What We Know, and the Role of Information Controls in the 2009 Events," James Millward, Georgetown University
• "Finding the Point: a Critical Reading of Contentious Politics in Urumchi," Gardner Bovingdon, Indiana University
• "Looking East from Turkey," Resat Kasaba, University of Washington

Moderated by David Bachman, University of Washington

Thursday, October 29, 2009, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220. Sponsored by the China Studies Program and the East Asia Center.

For more information, please contact eacenter@uw.edu

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November 16:
Donald Reid, "Contested Heritage: Ancient Egypt and the Paradigm of Western Civilization," Monday, November 16, 2009 in CMU 120 at 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and NELC. ( Click here for a pdf file of the event flyer.)

November 19:
Professor Ilse Cirtautas and Central Asian students: Saodat Khakimova (Uzbekistan) and Shyngys Nurlanov (Kazakhstan), Recent Publications on/in Central Asia: Jeff Sahadeo and Russel G. Zanca, eds. "Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present," Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. 12:30, Thursday, November 19, 2009 in Denny Hall 123. (Central Asian Studies Seminar Program (CASS). Click here for CASS program.)

November 20:
Professor Ilse Cirtautas, Recent Publication on/in Kazakhstan: Mukhamet Shayakhmetov. "The Silent Steppe. The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin." Translated from Russian by Jan Butler. New York: The Rookery Press, 2006. 12:30, Friday, November 20, 2009 in Denny Hall 123. (Central Asian Studies Seminar Program (CASS). Click here for CASS program.)

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October 18-19: Turkfest, held at Seattle Center.

October 30: Renee Friedman, "Remembering the Ancestors: New Discoveries at Hierakonpolis." 6:30 p.m., Mueller Hall 153.

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What is the place of sexuality and gender in Islam and the Muslim world? We often associate Islam with the exotic sensuality of harems, belly-dancing and multiple wives. Or is Islam an austere faith that shrouds women in bruqas and strictly controls sexuality? Delve into the history of sexuality in Islam and the Muslim world and learn to distinguish fantasy from fact.

-Beyond the American Point of View

November 13: Benson Harer, M.D., "French Scholars on the Nile: The Genesis of the Description de l'Egypte." 6:30 p.m., Mueller Hall 153.

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February: (CANCELLED) Brian Hunt "The Giza Plateau Mapping Project: An Update."

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April 16: Adina Hoffman, "Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography." 2:00-4:30 p.m. Location: CMU 202. Event flyer - pdf file.

ALSO April 16: Chloe Ragazzoli, University of the Sorbonne, Paris, "When Scribes Pass
By: Visitors' Graffiti in Ancient Egypt." 6:30 p.m. Location: CMU 226.

April 22: Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland, Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies. "Arab Public Opinion: Change and Continuity Since 9/11." 7:00 p.m. at the Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. ( Driving and parking directions to the Henry Art Gallery - pdf file. Event flyer - pdf file.)

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May 14: Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Student Association (NELC-SA) Conference."Spanning Time and Place" is the first student-run research conference focusing on the Near and Middle East at the University of Washington. The conference features presentations by graduate and undergraduate students from various disciplines. Broad in scope, the content of the conference aims to show the breadth of research that is possible within the realm of Near and Middle Eastern studies. The main goal of the research symposium is to provide a friendly forum in which students can practice presenting a conference paper to their peers, faculty members, and the wider university community. Location and time: CMU 202 from 12-3:30 and CMU 226 from 3:30-7:00. Event flyer; Event schedule.

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June 10: NELC Convocation
The annual NELC Convocation will be held on Wednesday, June 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the UW Club until 9:30 p.m.. Graduate and undergraduate students who graduate Autumn 2008 through Summer 2009 will be honored.  Graduating students will receive invitation via email in May. Students must first complete an online survey and come to 219 Denny to confirm attendance at the convocation and pick up guest tickets. Each student can have up to four tickets, and students also need a ticket.  The NELC event is a separate event from the University’s commencement ceremony, which will take place on Saturday, June 13th. The UW commencement website provides information for the June 13th event at  their commencement page.

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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 p.m., 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: Professor George Nickelsburg, "Books that Didn't Make It into the Bible" 1:30 p.m., Kane Hall 110

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

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January 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)

January 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)

January 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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February 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.

February 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).

February 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 February 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 p.m.

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.

February 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.

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

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

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

April 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 p.m. at the Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. Driving and parking directions (pdf file) Event poster (pdf file).

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

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June 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 p.m., Denny 304.

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