Spring 2020
Events
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Event
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Thursday
Jan. 30
Book Talk: Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland
6:00pm-8:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
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Reception: Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s
5:30pm-8:00pmGrey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
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Friday
Jan. 31
Exhibition Walkthrough with Conversation
6:30pm-7:30pmGrey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
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Thursday
Feb. 6
Scholarship in Conversation: Rosie Bsheer
12:30pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St (at Washington Square South)
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Friday
Feb. 7
Film Screening: The Night of Counting the Years (Al Mummia), 1969
6:30pm-8:30pmMichelson Theater, Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway, Room 628
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Monday
Feb. 10
Middle East Commons: "Deal of the Century"
12:00pm-1:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St (at Washington Square South) -
Research Workshop: Pandering in the Persian Gulf: U.S-Iranian Relations 1953 -1971
5:30pm-7:30pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street
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Wednesday
Feb. 12
Exhibition Walkthrough with Conversation
6:30pm-7:30pmGrey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
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Tuesday
Feb. 18
Lecture: Visions of the Modern: Abstraction in the Postcolonial Middle East
6:30pm-8:00pmSilver Center
Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place for wheelchair access)
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Thursday
Feb. 20
Scholarship in Conversation: Abdel Razzaq Takriti
12:30pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St (at Washington Square South)
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Monday
Feb. 24
Book Panel: Infrastructural Occupations: Waste and Electricity in Palestine
6:00pm-8:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street
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Tuesday
Feb. 25
Film Screening: West Beirut, 1998
6:30pm-8:30pmSilver Center
Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place for wheelchair access) -
Panel discussion: Inescapable Truths
6:30pm-9:00pmNYU Wagner’s Rudin Family Forum
(Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor)
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Thursday
Feb. 27
Book Talk: Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street
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Saturday
Feb. 29
12th Annual Global South Asia NYU Conference: Afterlives of Decolonization
8:30am-7:00pmRichard Ettinghausen Library
255 Sullivan St.
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Monday
Mar. 2
Middle East Commons
12:00pm-1:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St (at Washington Square South) -
Panel Discussion: New Works in Turkish Literary Translation
6:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St (at Washington Square South)
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Wednesday
Mar. 4
Decolonial Aesthetics: Feminist Responses to Occupation
6:00pm-8:00pmCenter for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
285 Mercer Street, 4th floor
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Thursday
Mar. 5
Professional Development: Academic Life Beyond the University
12:30pm-2:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street -
Lecture: Place, Poem, Body, Spirit: Looking at Abstract Art in Lebanon
6:30pm-8:00pmSilver Center
Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place for wheelchair access) -
Book Talk: Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire
6:00pm-8:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street
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Monday
Mar. 9
Research Workshop: Mediating Authority: A Sufi Shaykh in Multiple Media
5:30pm-7:30pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street
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Wednesday
Mar. 11
CANCELED: Exhibition Walkthrough with Conversation
6:30pm-7:30pmGrey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
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Friday
Mar. 13
CANCELED: Symposium Taking Shape: New Perspectives on Arab Abstraction
1:00pm-5:00pmHemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place for wheelchair access
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Saturday
Mar. 14
K-12 Workshop: Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s
10:30am-3:30pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
50 Washington Square South
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Monday
Mar. 23
CANCELED: Book Panel: Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street
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Tuesday
Mar. 24
CANCELED: Lecture: Modernism in Beirut: The Politics of Postwar Abstraction
6:30pm-8:00pmSilver Center
Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place for wheelchair access)
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Wednesday
Mar. 25
CANCELED: Lecture: How and Why Immigrant Muslim Communities Are Losing Women
6:00pm-7:30pmNYU Abu Dhabi Institute
19 Washington Square North -
CANCELED: Lecture: Traumatic Modernism
6:30pm-8:00pmNew York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor
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Thursday
Mar. 26
CANCELED: Lecture: Peace as War: Loyalty, Erasure, and the Making of Syria's Authoritarian Peace
6:00pm-8:00pmRichard Ettinghausen Library
255 Sullivan St.
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Friday
Mar. 27
CANCELED: Palestine Writes Literature Festival: March 27-29
5:00pm-8:00pmSchool of Visual Arts ; NYU Kimmel Center
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Thursday
Apr. 2
CANCELLED: Book Talk: Living the Nile River
6:00pm-8:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Apr. 9
CANCELLED: Lecture: Persianate Selves: Commemorating Collectives at the End of Empire
5:00pm-7:00pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St (at Washington Square South)
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Thursday
Apr. 23
CANCELLED:Sovereignty and Geopolitics: German Diplomacy and the Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911
5:30pm-7:30pmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street
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Thursday
May. 21
Virtual Panel: Epidemics and Quarantine in Middle Eastern History
12:00pm-1:30pmOnline Event
Zoom
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Thursday
May. 28
Webinar Series 1/3: The Barjeel Art Foundation & “Taking Shape"
12:00pm-1:00pmOnline Event
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Thursday
Jun. 4
Webinar Series 2/3: Arab Abstraction and Arabic Letterforms
6:00pm-7:00pmOnline Event
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