Past Event Category: Middle Eastern & North African History
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Nov 13“The Making of the Carceral State in Modern Iran”
Golnar Nikpour (Dartmouth College)
Pyle Center (Room 313)
The establishment and expansion of the modern prison system in Iran in the 20th and 21st centuries have led to an enduring and elemental transformation in Iranian lives and social and political worlds. This talk traces the making of the carceral state in Iran, the resulting incarceration of millions of people over several decades, responses …
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Nov 5“No One Plays Like Them: Martial and Equestrian Sports in the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)”
Christopher Herde (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
For a mamluk soldier, one of the highest virtues was furusiyyah. This complicated term literally means “horsemanship”, but by the Mamluk period encapsulated a range of skills and codes of behavior including the use of weapons, falconry, veterinary knowledge, and the proper organization and conduct of aristocratic mujahidin. Often compared to the European concept of Chivalry, furusiyyah was the structuring principle of …
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Feb 7“Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt” – Taylor M. Moore
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Taylor M. Moore (UC Santa Barbara) Taylor M. Moore is a historian of science, medicine, and race in the Modern Middle East, specializing in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Egypt. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections …
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Oct 11Film Screening: Far From Home
Cinematheque @ 4070 Vilas Hall (821 University Avenue) Facebook Event Page
Film Screening: Far from Home (Dar Ghorbat) FAR FROM HOME (DAR GHORBAT) West Germany, Iran | 1975 | DCP | 93 min. | Turkish, German with English subtitles Director: Sohrab Shahid-Saless Cast: Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan Turkish immigrant Husseyin (Sayyad) endures a monotonous existence as a “guest worker” in ’70s West Berlin, sharing …
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May 1Selçuk Esenbel, Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies & Center for East Asian Studies Event
Sheldon Lubar Faculty Commons, Law School, 7th floor Room 7200
“‘Twilight Diplomacy’ and the Japanese Mirror of the Ottoman Turkish World: Yamada Torajirō’s Illustrated Observations of Turkey” Selçuk Esenbel, Emerita Professor of History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey A discussion centered on Yamada Torajirō’s 1911 book Toruko Gakan, Illustrated Observations of Turkey, the Meiji Japanese “Mirror” of the Ottoman Turkish world, and the multi-religious culture in …