Golnar Nikpour (Dartmouth College)
Pyle Center (Room 313) @ 12:00 pm
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 …
Christopher Herde (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm
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, …
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St) @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
“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 …
Cinematheque @ 4070 Vilas Hall (821 University Avenue) @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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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 …
Sheldon Lubar Faculty Commons, Law School, 7th floor Room 7200 @ 4:30 pm
“‘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 …