2013 - 2014
The Indian Elections: What Will Change?
Speakers: Professors Yogesh Chandrani, Partha Chatterjee and Sudipta Kaviraj
Panel Moderated By: Professor Mahmood Mamdani
Thursday, November 20th
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
208 Knox Hall
No R.S.V.P. required
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Presents
IRAQ LECTURE SERIES
Friday, Oct 10, 2014
SAC 2.302 - Legislative Assembly Room
10:00 Breakfast
10:30 Opening Remarks, Assoc. Dean Richard Flores, COLA, UT Austin
10:45 Panel
Moderator: Prof. Barbara Harlow, UT Austin
-“Chronicle as Cascade: The Subaltern Sublime in Fadhil Al Azzawi’s The Last of the Angels,” Rachel Green, MES, UT Austin
-“Anfal: Sherko Bekes and the Poetry of Genocide,” Seerwan Hariry, MES, UT Austin
11:45 Break
12:00 Talk
Moderator: Prof. Yoav Di-Capua, UT Austin
Post-Occupation Iraqi Narrative:
ISIS Lexicon and its Counterculture
Muhsin al-Musawi
Columbia University
This talk explores ISIS lexicon, syntax, physique, and flowning black robes as part of a deliberately drawn medieval Asian site of hordes, not only to dismantle the last remnants of Arab nation state, and its core in the fertile crescent, but also to image Islam in a conservative orientalist light. The talk situates this within a broader accommodating historical context of conflict, coercion, fracturing of identities and ideologies, and the pilfering of privatized religion. It locates the movement within a strategy to initiate a new Middle East as a playground for global politics. A growing Iraqi narrative shows how the sordid and the macabre transmute into a normative practice that opens the gate for invading hordes.
Muhsin al-Musawi is Professor of classical and modern Arabic and comparative studies at Columbia University. Described by Chronicle for Higher Education as “the leading Arab critic,” he is the author of twenty-eight books and over sixty articles. He has been the editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature since 2000. His books include: The Society of One Thousand and One Nights (2000); The Postcolonial Arabic Novel (2003); Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (2006); Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict (2006); Islam on the Street (2009). His forthcoming book from Notre Dame UP is Politics of the Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters. He’s currently working on a book entitled, Arab Struggle with the Past.
Sponsored by the Shaibani Houston Donors Fund
Aijaz Ahmad in Conversation
with Hamid Dabashi
September 29, 2014
6:30 PM
509 Knox Hall
Swahili Studies Workshop and Film Screening
May 8, 2014
6:00 PM
403 Knox Hall
Fatwas, Social Media, and the Authority of Islam
April 19, 2014
10:30 - 4:00 pm
219 Aaron Burr
MESAAS Graduate Conference 2014
February 27 - 28, 2014
Featuring
Ruth Marshall
"Global" Christianity in the Postcolony: Reflections on the Politics of Knowledge
Surplus of Fatwas, Social Media, and the Authority of Islam
February 13 - 14, 2014
Featuring
Muhsin al-Musawi and Tarek El-Ariss
The Bodies of Virgins and God's Will: Holy Women in Early Eastern Christianity
December 12, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Featuring
Valentina Calzolari Bouvier
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Survivor Meaning: After the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and Hiroshima
December 4, 2013, 7:30 pm
Featuring
Robert Jay Lifton, Marianne Hirsch, and Peter Balakian
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Arts & Sciences in Islam
November 25, 2013, 8-9:30 pm
Hamilton 517
featuring
George Saliba
and Aisha Holland
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LIFE AGAIN: Photography Exhibition
October 24 - November 21, 2013, 6-8 pm
With artist
Hoda Rostami
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Arabic Literature: Migration, Diaspora, Exile, Estrangement
November 7-9, 2013
Led by
Professor Muhsin al-Musawi
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Shariah, Morality & Modernity
November 7, 2013, 8 pm
A dialogue with
Professor Wael Hallaq
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Limited entry, RSVP mandatory
Raphael Lemkin and the Armenian Genocide
October 8, 2013 7:00 PM
Led by
Dr. Donna-Lee Frieze
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Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners
September 28, 2013
A hip-hop set by Chee Malabar
Followed by a Q&A with Manan Ahmed
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Terror and Taboo: Going to Turkey
September 25, 2013
An informal talk led by
Professor Peter Balakian
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