IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series
The IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series brings a diverse group of experts on Middle East Studies to UC San Diego to discuss their research on the region. These seminars supplement the Middle East Studies Minor, and are intended for UCSD faculty and students, and open to all interested members of the community.
2011-12 Middle East Studies Faculty Coordinator:
Michael Provence (Associate Professor, History)
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Gilberto Conde Assistant Professor and Editor-in-Chief, Estudios de Asia y Africa El Colegio de Mexico "Do Opposites Attract? The Syrian Framing Battle for Legitimacy" Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107 |
During the first year of the Syrian popular uprising the regime and diverse opposition groups confronted one another ideologically and on the streets. Force alone was insufficient for the regime to crush the revolt over the past twelve months. Protesters, however, failed to bring down the government. The battle for cultural hegemony had to be won by one of the two sides to achieve a crushing defeat over the other. Protesters and the regime alike had to deploy and redeploy their discourses along frames that resonated with the values, hopes, and fears of Syrian society. The effectiveness of the regime in securing the support of large sections of urban Syrians was coupled with its systematic use of violent repression. This led to frustration on the part of demonstrators and a stalemate was reached, resulting in divergent framing activity within the opposition, which in turn led to its division, which was used by the regime to further weaken the protest movement. This talk will examine the ideological and cultural discourses of pro-and anti-government groups in Syria.
Gilberto Conde teaches Middle East geography and politics at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de Mexico. His research deals with international relations for strategic resources, such as water. Although his forthcoming book deals with the changing relations between Turkey, Syria and Iraq, he is preparing another on these country’s dealings on Euphrates and Tigris resources. Gilberto Conde lived in Turkey and Syria for over two years while preparing his PhD.
IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series at UC San Diego is sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS). IICAS promotes interdisciplinary research, discussion and information exchange on international, comparative, and cross regional topics.
2011-12 Middle East Studies Past Events
2011-12 Middle East Studies Faculty Coordinator: Michael Provence (Associate Professor, History)
Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University - Cancelled
"Democracy, Islam, and the New Middle East"
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 10:00 AM, De Certeau Room, Literature Building.
Sponsored by the Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, with co-sponsorship by the IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series, the Program for the Study of Religion, and the Department of Literature.
Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University
"Interpreting Islam in a Modern Context"
Monday, April 16, 2012, 8:00 PM, Price Center West Ballroom B.
Sponsored by the Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, with co-sponsorship by the IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series, the Program for the Study of Religion, and the Department of Literature.
Stephen Sheehi, University of South Carolina
"Islamophobia: A Mainstream Ideological Formation"
March 8, 2012, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series.
Salim Tamari, Georgetown University
"Ottoman Cartography and Ethnography of Syria"
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Eleanor Roosevelt College Admin. Bldg. (ERC), Room 115.
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series.
Laith Ulaby, Ethnomusciologist and Musician
"Tears in Tahrir from Tamer: Arabic Language Pop Stars and the Arab Spring"
Monday, February 27, 2012, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Eleanor Roosevelt College Admin. Bldg. (ERC), Room 115.
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series.
Nader Hashemi, University of Denver; Michael Provence, UC San Diego; Ghada Osman,San Diego State University
"The Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring One Year Anniversary"
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 7:00 PM, Literature Building, Room 155 (de Certeau)
Sponsored by the UCSD Department of Literature, UCSD Middle East Program, and IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series
Gilbert Achcar, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
"The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives"
Monday, October 24, 2011, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
Michael Provence, UC San Diego
"Impressions from the Arab Spring"
Monday, September 26, 2011, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
2010-11 Middle East Studies Past Events
2010-11 Middle East Studies Faculty Coordinator: Gershon Shafir (Professor, Sociology)
Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
"One-State and Two-State Solutions to the Palestine/Israel Problem"
Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 7:00 pm, Hojel Auditorium, Institute of the Americas (IOA)
Co-Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series
Asher Susser, Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University
"Identity Politics in Jordan; Implications for Domestic Stability and Relations with Israel "
Monday, May 2, 2011, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Eleanor Roosevelt College (ERC) Administration Building, Room 115
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies and the UCSD Judaic Studies Program
View Susser's articles in the Tablet and bittermelons.
Avner Cohen, Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
"The Worst-Kept Secret - Israel's Bargain with the Bomb "
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, IR/PS Classroom 3201
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies and the International Affairs Group (IAG)
Roxana Saberi, Journalist:
"Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran"
Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, 7:00-9:00 pm
Price Center West Theater
Co-Sponsered by The Association of Iranian American Professionals; Burke Lectureship in Religion and Society; Critical Gender Studies; Department of Literature; Eleanor Roosevelt College; IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series; Program for the Study of Religion; Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, UC Irvine; and Third World Studies.
Hussein Ibish, Senior Research Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine:
"Palestinian State-Building: A Real Plan for Peace and Independence"
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011,4:00-5:30 pm
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Read Hussein Ibish’s recent New York Times Op-Ed.
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
Reese Erlich, Peabody Award Winning Journalist:
"Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire"
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010,5:00-7:00 pm
Great Hall, International House
Sponsored by the UCSD Department of Literature; Middle East Studies Program; the Institute for International, Comparative, Area Studies (IICAS); and IAG of International House
Ilan Peleg, Dana Professor of Government & Law,Lafayette College:
"Israel as ‘Jewish and Democratic’: A Recipe for Justice or a Long-Term Disaster?"
Friday, Oct. 22, 2010, 2:00-3:30 pm
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
2009-10 Middle East Studies Past Events
2009-10 Middle East Studies Faculty Coordinator: Michael Provence (Assistant Professor, History)
Hussein Ibish,Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine:
"What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal"
Friday, March 12, 2010, IR/PS Room 3201, Robinson Complex
To listen to Ibish's lecture, click here.
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
Professor Laila Parsons,McGill University:
"The Return of Narrative to the Historiography of the Early 20th Century Arab World"
Monday, February 22, 2010, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
To listen to the lecture, click here.
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
Professor Keith Watenpaugh, UC Davis:
"America's Wards: Orphan Survivors of the Armenian Genocide and the Origins of American Humanitarian Exceptionalism (1920-1925)"
Thusday, January 14, 2010, Eleanor Roosevelt College (ERC) Administration Building, Room 115
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
Professor Mona El-Ghobashy, Barnard College:
"Petition and Protest in Authoritarian Egypt"
Thusday, October 8, 2009, Eleanor Roosevelt College (ERC) Administration Building, Room 115
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
Professor Yucel Yanikdag, University of Richmond:
"A Pathological Condition? Socio-Medical Explanations of Desertion in the Ottoman Great War"
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
To view Yucel Yanikdag's paper click here.
2008-09 Middle East Studies Past Events
2008-09 Middle East Studies Faculty Coordinator: Michael Provence (Assistant Professor, History)Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy, from the University of California, San Diego; School of Medicine:
"Three Decades of Injustice: Health and Human Rights in Iraq"
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, Center Hall, Room 119
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego and the Center for Islamic and Arab Studies, SDSU
Prof. Olivier Roy, Senior Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales:
"The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East"
Tuesday, February 17, 2009, Social Sciences Building, Room 107
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
You can download Prof. Olivier Roy's Lecture by clicking this
Aboubakr Jamai, Journalist and Visiting Instructor at the University of San Diego
"Morocco, On the Path to Democracy?"
Tuesday, April 28, 2009, Robinson Auditorium, in IR/PS
Sponsored by IICAS Middle East Studies, UC San Diego
You can download Aboubakr Jamai's Lecture by clicking here
UCSD/SDSU 2008-2009 Arab Film Series
2007-08 Middle East Studies Past Events
Khaled Abou El Fadl, from the University of California, Los Angeles; School of Law:
Burke Lecture Presents: "Shari'a and the Challenge of Islamophobia"
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Co-sponsored by UCSD Center for the Humanities; the Dean of Arts and Humanities; the Middle East Studies Program; the Department of History; the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), and the Burke Lectureship in Religion and Society.
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled.
Anthony Shadid, from The Washington Post:
"The Long War: Loss and Nostalgia in the Middle East"
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Robinson Auditorium
Co-sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt College, the Department of History, International House, and Middle East Studies at IICAS.
Listen to Tom Fudge from KPBS "These Days" interview Mr. Anthony Shadid online.
Abdul-Rahim Abu Husayn, from American University of Beirut/Harvard University:
"Rebellion, Myth making and Nation building: Lebanon from an Ottoman mountain Iltizam to a Nation state "
Friday, November 30, 2007, 2:00 PM
H&SS Room 3027; Science Studies Seminar Room
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, and IICAS Middle East Studies.
Frank Peter:
"Muslim Youth and State Policies in Europe"
Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 3:00 PM
Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, IICAS Middle East Studies, and IICAS European Studies.
Khaled Abou El Fadl, from the University of California, Los Angeles; School of Law:
Burke Lecture Presents: "Islamic Law and the Challenge of Islamophobia"
Monday, May 5, 2008
Co-sponsored by UCSD Center for the Humanities; the Dean of Arts and Humanities; the Middle East Studies Program; the Department of History; the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), and the Burke Lectureship in Religion and Society.
Khaled Abou El Fadl, from the University of California, Los Angeles; School of Law:
Burke Lecture Presents: "What has Become of Islamic Law: Some Selected Reflections"
Tuesday, May 6 , 2008
Co-sponsored by UCSD Center for the Humanities; the Dean of Arts and Humanities; the Middle East Studies Program; the Department of History; the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), and the Burke Lectureship in Religion and Society.
2006-07 Middle East Studies Past Events
Aziza Khazzom, from the University of California, Los Angeles:
"Cultural Capital and the Cultural Bases of Ethnic Exclusion in Israel"
Thursday, October 10, 2006, 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 101
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Department of Sociology
Vali Nasr , from the Naval Postgraduate School:
"The Shi'a Revival: From Iran and Iraq to Lebanon and Beyond"
Monday, February 5, 2007, 7:00 PM
Great Hall
Co-sponsored by IICAS, ERC, and IAG
2005-06 Middle East Studies Past Events
Babak Rahimi & Sanford Lakoff, from the University of California, San Diego:
"The Future of Iraq After the Constitutional Referendum"
Monday, November 7, 2005 , 2005, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
Co-sponsored by IICAS and Middle East Studies
Nancy Gallagher & Salim Yaqub, from the University of California, Santa Barbara :
"Critical Elections in Palestine and Israel"
Monday, April 10, 2006, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Weaver Center
Co-sponsored by IICAS and Middle East Studies
Gordon Gray , Assistant Deputy Secretary of State
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
UCSD Faculty Club
Sponsored by IICAS
Babak Rahimi, from the University of California, San Diego:
"Sectarianism and Democracy in post-Baathist Iraq"
Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
Sponsored by IICAS
David Edwards
Thursday, June 8, 2006, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 108
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Department of Anthropology
2004-05 Middle East Studies Past Events
Robert Kittle, Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune
Michael Mosettig, Producer, The Jim Lehrer NewsHour (PBS)
Orville H. Schell, from the University of California, Berkeley
A Panel Discussion: "The Media and the Iraq War"
Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:30 PM
Weaver Center
Sponsored by IICAS
Joseph Logan, Middle East Correspondent
Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Michael Provence, from the University of California, San Diego
A Panel Discussion: "US, Iraq, and A Changing Middle East"
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Weaver Center
Sponsored by IICAS
2003-04 Middle East Studies Past Events
Rita Hauser, Ambassador:
"The Middle East after the Iraq War"
Monday, November 10, 2003, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center
Co-sponsored by IICAS and Middle East Studies
Peter Sluglett, from the University of Utah:
"Against all reason: the US administration's Litany of Errors in Iraq"
Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Price Center, Gallery B
Co-sponsored by IICAS and Middle East Studies
Rashid Khalid, from Columbia University:
"Resurrecting Empire"
Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center
Co-sponsored by IICAS and Middle East Studies
