I am subscribed to a few mailing lists that send me upcoming events in London related to Lebanon as well as the Middle East and North Africa. There are quite a few coming up over the next couple of months so I thought I’d share them here.
Tuesday January 18, 2011, 6pm – King’s College, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Classroom G.73 – Frances Guy –Lebanon: The price of compromise, is there an alternative
Tuesday January 18, 2011, 6pm – London School of Economics, Hong Kong Theatre – Omar Nashabe – The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL): Prerequisites for Injustice?
Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) Research Seminar Series, Thursdays 5:00 – 7:00pm, Room 3.05, New Academic Building, Goldsmiths:
Thursday February 3, 2011 – Dr. Fadi Bardawil – Fieldwork in Theory: Levantine Polemics around Edward Said and Post-Colonial Critique
Thursday February 17, 2011 – Dr. Sami Hermez (University of Oxford) – Children in Militias: Learning Adulthood in Wartime Lebanon (1975-1990)
Thursday March 3, 2011 – Lauren Banko (SOAS) – The “Invention” of Palestinian Citizenship: Discourses and Practices, 1918-1931
Thursday March 17, 2011– Monika Halkort (Queens Universtiy) – Counterfeit Citizenship. On the Politics of Property in Nahr el Bared, a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Thursday March 31, 2011 – Zsuzsa Katona (Goldsmiths) – Framing a Housing Crises in South Tel Aviv Jaffa
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Seminars at the Department of History at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, on Mondays at 17:15:
Monday January 17, 2011 – Marina Pyrovolaki, SOAS – Pre-modern popular Arabic historiography and knowledge construction
Monday January 24, 2011 – Nasser Kalawoun – Tripoli Lebanon: Violence and Identity Quest in Post Ottoman Era
Monday January 31, 2011 – Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway (University of London) – The Histories of Sharaf al-Din ‘Ali Yazdi (d. 1454) and Timurid Politics
Monday February 7, 2011 – Mercedes Garcia-Arenal (CSIC Madrid) – Title tbc
Monday February 21, 2011 – Marina Rustow (Johns Hopkins University) – The Fatimid state as seen by medieval Jews and modern social theorists
Monday February 28, 2011 – Judith Scheele (University of Oxford) – Title tbc
Monday March 7, 2011 – Maribel Fierro (CSIC Madrid) – Abd al-Mu’min, the first Almohad caliph (tbc)
Monday March 14, 2011 – Colin Heywood (SOAS and University of Hull – Spectrality, ‘Presence’ and the Ottoman Past: Paul Wittek’s Rûmtürkische Studien and other Ghosts in the Machine
