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Speaker(s) / Presenter(s) Date
Roma Forestiera: Migrant Music in Rome / Screening and discussion of the film, Matewan -
Bale Boone Symposium: Europe Today and the Memory of Violence -
Bale Boone Symposium: Violence, Memory and the Sacred: The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust Jay Winter
Year of Europe Film Series: Biutiful (Spain/Mexico) Presented by Professor Susan Larson (Hispanic Studies) -
Europe in Our Lives: Faculty Panel Discussion Anna Bryzski (Art History); Suzanne Pucci (French); Jeremy Popkin (History)
Year of Europe Film Series: Soul Kitchen (Germany) Presented by Professor Jeff Rogers (German) -
Year of Europe Kick Off Lecture: AUSTERITY PROFESSIONALS AND SHADOW CITIZENS IN EUROPE Andy Merrifield
“The Street is Ours”: Beirut Graffiti and the Art of Beautification, Commemoration & Social Critique." Nadine Sinno
Claudia Roden "Gefilte Fish and Couscous" Claudia Roden
Katherine Bullock “Women and Islam” Katherine Bullock
Mina Yazdani “Religious Diversity in Iran” Mina Yazdani
Religion, Identity and Competing Visions of Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia Professor Devin Deweese
“The Arab World and American Democracy” Dr. Jacob Berman -
“The Arab Spring: The Youth Revolts of the Arab World Aren't Over Juan Cole
Yousif Sheronik “Percussion of the Middle East” Yousif Sheronik
Tanya Habjouqa, Palestinian Photography
"Religion, Identity and Competing Visions of Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia" Devin Deweese
"The Israelite Samaritan Today: Past, Present and Looking to the Future." Benyamim (Benny) Tsedaka -
"My Father’s Paradise: How a Jewish Kid from Los Angeles Traveled to Wartime Iraq in Search of Roots, Identity and His Father's Improbable Life Story " Ariel Sabar
"Sleepless Nights/Wasted Time: Seeking Islam in Egypt's Hollywood" Joel Gordon -
The Significance of Being First; Competing: Jewish and Arab Discourses Ilan Troen
“Democracy at Risk Around the World” with Amaney Jamal; co-sponsored by QPSIR Amaney Jamal -
“Islamist Thought and the Egyptian Revolution” Mohammad Fadel
"How US Policy on Palestine Contributes to the Impasse." Rashid Khalidi
UK Art Museum opening of the exhibit "Containing Culture: Art of the Middle East"