Spring 2018
Events
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Event
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Wednesday
Jan. 3
The Great Gig in the Sky: Imagining the Soundtrack to Utopia
11:00am-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (At Washington Square South)
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Monday
Jan. 29
ZER / A Film by Kazım Öz
7:00pm-10:00pmCantor Film Center, Theater 200
36 E. 8th Street
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Tuesday
Jan. 30
The Ottoman Vocabulary of Sovereignty at the Dawn of Empire
12:30pm-2:00pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Feb. 1
“A Green-Colored Leaf Called Tabaġa”
12:30pm-2:00pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South) -
Reflections on the Nationwide Protests in Iran
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Sq. S, NYC 10012
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Saturday
Feb. 3
Humanitarian Islam: A Perspective from Indonesia
2:00pm-4:00pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Monday
Feb. 5
Markazi
9:00am-5:00pm19 Washington Square North
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Tuesday
Feb. 6
Genealogies of Power in the Islamic West
12:30pm-2:00pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South) -
Genealogies of Power in the Islamic West
12:30pm-2:00pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Feb. 8
The Scribe of the Alhambra
12:30pm-2:00pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Friday
Feb. 9
Grounded Struggles: Land, Dispossession, and Freedom in Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, and the U.S.
1:00pm-8:00pmWollman Hall, B 500, Eugene Lang College, The New School
65 West 11th Street Room B500, New York, NY 10003
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Saturday
Feb. 10
Rivers of Sound with Amir ElSaffar
7:30pm-9:30pmNYU Skirball
566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012
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Friday
Feb. 16
Precarious Sounds // Sounding Sanctuary
9:00am-11:00pmVarious: Including NYU's Silver Center, and NYU's Avery Fisher Center in Bobst Library
Silver Center // 28 Waverly Place; Bobst Library // 70 Washington Square South
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Saturday
Feb. 17
Precarious Sounds // Sounding Sanctuary
9:00am-11:00pmVarious: Including NYU's Silver Center, and NYU's Avery Fisher Center in Bobst Library
Silver Center // 28 Waverly Place; Bobst Library // 70 Washington Square South
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Tuesday
Feb. 20
Negotiating Identities at the Mamluk Court
12:30pm-2:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Feb. 22
The Jews and the Iranian Nation Building Projects of the 20th Century
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Sq. S, NYC 10012
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Friday
Feb. 23
Take My Pictures For Me
4:00pm-6:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
50 Washington Square South
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Monday
Feb. 26
Plunder: The Origins of Modern Art
7:30pm-9:30pmCooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square (entrance at 7th St and 3rd Ave)
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Tuesday
Feb. 27
Between House and Orchard: Family, Shariʿa and the Making of the Modern Middle East
12:30pm-1:45pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Friday
Mar. 2
The Voice of Istanbul / A Panel Discussion on Sezen Aksu's Music
6:00pm-8:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Monday
Mar. 5
A Conversation with novelist Alaa' Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building
5:00pm-6:30pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Mar. 22
"Couldn't help but fall asleep while you were mansplaining"
12:30pm-1:45pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South) -
Intro to Ghouta
5:00pm-7:00pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Friday
Mar. 23
Guli's Children
12:00pm-2:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street
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Monday
Mar. 26
Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia
5:00pm-6:30pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Tuesday
Mar. 27
Whither Turkey: Politics, Society and Democracy
12:30pm-1:45pmHagop Kevorkian Center
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Thursday
Mar. 29
Reading ISIS
12:30pm-1:45pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South) -
EVENT CANCELLED: In Conversation with Mohsen Namjoo
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Sq. S, NYC 10012
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Friday
Mar. 30
Rethinking the Materiality of Energy: Infrastructure and the Politics of Electricity after Apartheid
6:00pm-8:00pmSilver Center Room 206
31 Washington Place, NYC
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Thursday
Apr. 5
Of Languages and Dialects: The Unique Case of Arabic Diglossia
12:30pm-1:45pmHagop Kevorkian Center
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South) -
Do All Dervishes Whirl? Looking at Sufism Today
7:00pm-9:30pmGENOMICS BUILDING, G08
12 WAVERLY PL, NEW YORK, NY 10003
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Friday
Apr. 6
Three Stolen Cameras
6:30pm-8:30pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Apr. 12
Notes from Who's Who: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Politics of Rurbanization
12:30pm-1:45pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Apr. 19
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Spiritual Empiricism and the Gender of Reason
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Sq. S, NYC 10012
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Monday
Apr. 23
On the Kingdom of Death and Madness: Visibilities and Counter-Surveillance in Tadmur Military Prison
4:30pm-6:00pmThe Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Apr. 26
God and Man in Tehran
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Sq. S, NYC 10012 -
CELEBRATING ELLA SHOHAT'S NEW BOOK: ON THE ARAB-JEW, PALESTINE, AND OTHER DISPLACEMENTS
6:00pm-8:00pmDean’s Conference Room, 12th floor, 721 Broadway
721 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
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Friday
Apr. 27
The Latin East / New Perspectives on Latin America-Middle East Ties
9:30am-7:30pmJerry H. Labowitz Theater for the Performing Arts
1 Washington Place, NYC
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Saturday
Apr. 28
The Latin East / New Perspectives on Latin America-Middle East Ties
9:30am-7:30pmJerry H. Labowitz Theater for the Performing Arts
1 Washington Place, NYC
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Monday
Apr. 30
Revolutionary Development in a Transnational Age
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
May. 3
The Inaugural Dr. Jack G. Shaheen Memorial Lecture: Ralph Nader
6:30pm-9:00pmNYU Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion
60 Washington Square South, 10th Floor
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Monday
May. 7
Starvation as Strategy: The War on Yemen
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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Monday
May. 14
Filial Translation: Tunisian Poetry Reading in Arabic and English
6:00pm-8:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
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