2006-2007 NES Activities and Events



Charging Steeds or Maidens Doing Good Deeds? A Re-interpretation of Qur’an 100 (al-Adiyat)
Senior Lecturer Munther Younes, Cornell University
Monday, September 11, 12:10-1:10pm
104 White Hall
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available a week in advance. For a copy of this reading, please email Debbie Mathews at **



American Hostage: A memoir of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq and the remarkable battle to win his release

Micha Garen (Class of '94) and Marie-Helene Carlton
Thursday, September 14, 8:30pm
Alice Cook House Common Room


Getting the Word Out: Disseminating Information in Ancient Mesopotamia
Postdoctoral Associate Lance Allred, Cornell University
Monday, October 16, 12:10-1:10pm
104 White Hall
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available a week in advance. For a copy of this reading, please email Debbie Mathews at **


Boundaries and Bodies in Late Antiquity

Conference
October 20-21
A.D. White House, Cornell University
For a complete schedule of events,
Middle Eastern Film Screenings
Mondays, 7:30pm
132 Rockefeller Hall (unless noted otherwise)
August 28: The Battle of Algiers
**Special Screening, Cornell Cinema, 7:00pm**
September 4: Omar Gatlato
 
September 11: Alexandria, Why?
September 18: A Suspended Life
September 25: Divine Intervention
October 2: Bedwin Hacker
 
 
October 16: The House on Chelouche Street
October 23: Hamsin
October 30: Or, My Treasure
**Special Screening, Cornell Cinema, 7:00pm**
November 6: The Cyclist
 
 
November 13: Taste of Cherry
*November 20 - No Screening*
November 27: Under the Skin of the City
For more information, contact
Complete listing and film descriptions
 

The Future of Civil Rights

Julian Bond, NAACP Chairman
Thursday, November 9, 5:00-6:30pm
Statler Auditorium

In recent years, several issues that relate to civil rights and liberties have been attacked, whether in the universities or on Capitol Hill. Some examples include the 2003 lawsuit filed against the affirmative action program at the University of Michigan, and when Congress delayed in renewing the Voting Rights Act. As these assaults mount, how will our civil rights be affected? In order to understand these challenges, we need to hear from someone who has experienced the flaws in our society and stood up for our rights. That person is NAACP Chairman Julian Bond.

Licit Magic: Writing the life of a Muslim statesman, al-Sahib b. Abbad (d. 385/995), in 4th/10th century Iran
Maurice Pomerantz, Cornell University
Monday, November 13, 12:10-1:10pm
104 White Hall
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available a week in advance. For a copy of this reading, please email Debbie Mathews at **


Beauty and Blessing: The Impact of Arabic Writing

Dr. Sylvia Auld, Edinburgh University
Wednesday, November 15, 5:15pm
6th Floor Conference Room, Johnson Museum of Art


I Believe In....Dinner

A Free Interfaith Dinner and discussion of our personal beliefs
Friday, November 17, 7:00pm
Alice Cook House
All are welcome to attend!
Please RSVP at: www.hillel.cornell.edu/dinner


The religious reforms of the King Josiah:
A New Look at II Kings 22-23

Professor Lauren Monroe, Cornell University
Monday, December 4, 12:00-1:00pm
104 White Hall
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available a week in advance. For a copy of this reading, please email Debbie Mathews at **


Iran: Power Broker in the New Middle East

Steven Kinzer, NY Times
Thursday, November 30, 6:00pm
165 McGraw Hall

Stephen Kinzer, renowned New York Times correspondent and best-selling author will speak at Cornell on November 30.  His lecture, "Iran: Power Broker in the New Middle East" will draw from over twenty years of experience as an international correspondent, including time spent in Iran covering the 1997 presidential elections there. That experience led him to write the best-selling book All the Shahs Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.  Currently a professor of journalism and international affairs at Northwestern University, Mr. Kinzer's lifetime in journalism has taken him to all corners of the globe. From 1983 to 1989 he was the Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, covering the wars and upheavals that plagued Latin American governments in that time. Mr. Kinzer has reported out of Europe as the bureau chief for Bonn and Berlin and the late 1990s he was stationed in Istanbul. He has written on a wide array of countries including Nicaragua, Guatemala and Turkey.
 
Syrian Cinema - Early Spring 2007 series

January 30 - "The Night "
February 6 - "Sacrifices " Syrian Docs 1
February 13 - " (A Plate of Sardines / The Dream) "
February 20 - "Syrian Docs 2 (Film-Essai on the Euphrates Dam / A Flood in Baath Country) "
For details click on this website http://cinema.cornell.edu/series_earlyspring07/SyrianCinema.html

 


Fusion of Middle Eastern Arts

Saturday, February 10, 7:00-10:30pm
Johnson Museum of Art

NES Colloquium Series: " Adoption in the Jahiliyya and Early Islam: The Zayd Affair"

Professor David S. Powers , Cornell University
Monday, February 12, 12:10-1:10pm
104 White Hall
**Required reading will be available a week in advance. For a copy of this reading, please email Debbie Mathews at **


 
The Modern Maghreb Series: ( Title to be announced... )

Professor Reda Bensmaïa, Brown University
Monday, February 12, 4:30-6:00pm
Guerlac Room, A.D. White House

Reda Bensmala (Doctorat de Troisieme Cycle, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) is University Professor of French and Francophone literature in the French Studies Department and in the Department of Compartive Literature at Brown University and Chair of the French Studies Department. He has written extensively on 20 th century French Francophone literature, and on film theory and contemporary philosophy. Bensamla’s publications include The Barthes Effect, Introduction to the Reflective Text (Minnesota, THL, 1987); The Years of Passages (Minnesota, Theory out of Bounds, 1995); Alger ou la Maladie de la Memoire (L’Harmattan, 1997) and Experimental Nations or The Invention of the Maghreb (Princeton University Press, Spring 2003). He is also the Editor of Gilles Deleuze (Lendemains, Berlin, 1989) and Recommending Deleuze (Discourse, 1998) and is presently working on a monograph on Gilles Deleuze and a book on North African writers, Politiques d’ecrivain.

 

The Origins of Our Alphabet: New Evidence from Tel Zayit for the History of Writing in the Time of King Solomon

DATE HAS CHANGED, DUE TO WEATHER
Professor Ron Tappy, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Wednesday, February 28, 7:30-9:00pm
106 White Hall

 

NES Colloquium Series: "Eastern Influences on Byzantine Literature"

Kostas Yiavis, Cornell University
Monday, March 5, 12:10-1:10pm
104 White Hall
**Required reading will be available a week in advance. For a copy of this reading, please email Debbie Mathews at **

 

A View From the Bottom of the Bronze Age

Professor Chris Monroe, Cornell University
Tuesday, March 6, 7:30pm
Center for Natural Sciences Room 208, Ithaca College
 


The Media Lynching of Jimmy Carter

Norman Finkelstein, DePaul University
Thursday, March 8, 8:00pm
Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

 

The Iraq Crisis As A American Crisis

Professor Juan Cole, Michigan University
Saturday, March 10, 5:30pm
HEC Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

 

The Mock Mehndi

Saturday, March 10, 7:30-11:00pm
Trillium, Kennedy Hall
Experience the excitement and hungama of a Pakistani Mehndi! Full catered South Asian dinner, mehndi, performances by Cornell Bhangra and more. Tickets $6 in advance, $8 at the door. Please contact nr55@cornell.edu

The Modern Maghreb Series: "Colonial
Governementality and the Birth of Khaldunism"

**THIS TALK HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM MARCH 5**
Professor Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas
Monday, March 26, 4:30-6:00pm
Africana Studies & Research Center-Multipurpose Room

Abdelmajid Hannoum (PhD University of Sorbonne, Princeton University) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, University of Kansas. His research areas include anthropology and history, social theory, cultural identity, political modernity, historiography and memory, translation and the imaginary, (post) colonialism, Egypt, North Africa, and France. Hannoum’s publications include “Historiography, Mythology and Memory in Modern North Africa,” in Studio Islamica (February 1997); “Historiographie et legende au Maghreb: La Kahina ou la production d’une memoire,” in Annales: Histoire et Sciences Sociales (1999); “L’auteur comme autorite en ethnographie coloniale: Le cas de Robert Montagne,” in La sociologie musulmane de Robert Montagne (Maisonneuve & Larose, 2000); Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Memories: the Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine (Heinemann, 2001); “Translation and the Colonial Imaginary: Ibn Khaldun Orientalist” in History and Theory (2003); and “Paul Ricoeur on Memory” in Theory, Culture, & Society (2005).