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SUMMARY:Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another\, meet CMENA faculty\, and learn about the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Minor.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/falafel-welcome-lunch-with-the-center-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
DESCRIPTION:From ancient times through abolition\, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead\, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time\, however\, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison with other dominated groups. Presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, this talk investigates whether theories of race and racism can elucidate the social\, political\, and economic dimensions of slavery in the Mediterranean\, while also asking how studying slavery in the Mediterranean might provide a different understanding of racialization during the early modern period. \n \nM’hamed Oualdi is a Professor at the European University Institute\, Florence. Before joining the EUI\, he taught at Sciences Po-Paris and Princeton University. He is supervising a European Research Council-funded project about the demise of slavery in the Mediterranean from the mid-18th century to the 1930s. He is the author of Esclaves et maîtres. Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (Publications de la Sorbonne\, 2011) and A Slave between Empires (Columbia University Press\, 2020). \nShreya Parikh is a lecturer and affiliated researcher at Sciences Po Paris. She received a Dual Ph.D. in Political Science and in Sociology from Sciences Po and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. Her dissertation\, Mirages of Race: Blackness\, Racialization\, and the Black Movement in Tunisia\, examines the intersections of race\, migration\, and citizenship in the production of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. She is currently working on adapting her dissertation manuscript into a book.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mhamed-oualdi-in-conversation-with-shreya-parikh/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250203T172000
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SUMMARY:The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer\, Dr. Persis Karim
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the film\, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life\, and a discussion with the film’s Co-Director and Executive Producer\, Persis Karim\, who will be in conversation with UCSC PhD candidate\, Shirin Towfiq. The film shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came to the U.S. as students\, refugees\, and exiles in the context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The film charts the longer history of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay area and the ways they have been impacted by and contributed to the region. The event is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa and the Department of Film and Digital Media. \nPersis Karim is the director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University where she also teaches in the Department of Humanities and Comparative and World Literature. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diasporic literature\, and she has published numerous articles about Iranian diasporic literature and culture for academic journals as well as poetry and essays in non-academic publications. The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life is her first film and reflects her interest in documenting and sharing the larger history and personal stories of those who are part of the global Iranian diaspora. She co-directed and co-produced the film with Soumyaa Behrens. Karim received her Master’s degree in Middle East Studies and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UT Austin. She is also a poet.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dawn-is-too-far/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan--Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
DESCRIPTION:Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade\, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in cargo and trade flows\, and how the structure of global capital has to be taken into account in toto while waging a Gramscian war of position at local levels to leverage transformations more broadly. \nRegistration required to attend:  Register here \nLaleh Khalili is Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies and the Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. Her most recent book is Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020)\, which examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of movement of technologies\, capital\, people\, and cargo. \nNidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her book project\, Moorings: The Dhow Trade\, Capitalism\, and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean\, examines the marginalized mobile society of Muslim seafarers from Kachchh in western India who have become crucial intermediaries in global shipping as they move across South Asia\, East Africa\, and the Middle East. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laleh-khalili-in-conversation-with-nidhi-mahajan-palestine-and-the-maritime-politics-of-the-red-sea/
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SUMMARY:Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another\, meet CMENA faculty\, and learn about the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Minor.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/falafel-welcome-lunch-with-the-center-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T120000
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SUMMARY:In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:IN VITRO | Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind\, 2019 (TRAILER) from Spike Island – Productions on Vimeo. \nJoin the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium for a special screening of the film\, In Vitro\, after which Peter Limbrick (UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media) will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind. \nIn Vitro is a 2-channel Arabic-language sci-fi film filmed in black and white. It is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse\, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. \nIn the hospital wing of the underground compound\, the orchard’s ailing founder\, 70-year-old Alia\, played by Hiam Abbass\, is lying in her deathbed\, as 30-year-old Alia\, played by Maisa Abd Elhadi\, comes to visit her. Alia is born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild. \nThe talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory\, exile and nostalgia. Central to their discussion is the intricate relationship between past\, present and future\, with the Bethlehem setting providing a narratively\, politically and symbolically charged backdrop. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, December 2nd to receive Zoom link and password. \n \n______________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLarissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem\, Palestine\, and studied fine arts in London\, New York and Copenhagen. Central to her work is the dialectics between myth and historical narrative. In her recent works\, she uses science fiction to address social and political issues. Working mainly with film\, Sansour also produces installations\, photos and sculptures. \nSansour’s work is shown in film festivals and museums worldwide. In 2019\, she represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennial. She has shown her work at Tate Modern\, MoMA\, Centre Pompidou and the Istanbul Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark\, Bluecoat in Liverpool\, Bildmuseet in Umeå and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. Sansour currently lives and works in London\, UK. \nSoren Lind (b. 1970) is a Danish author\, artist\, director and scriptwriter. With a background in philosophy\, Lind wrote books on mind\, language and understanding before turning to art\, film and fiction. He has published novels\, shorts story collections and several children’s books. \nLind screens and exhibits his films at museums\, galleries and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other recent venues and festivals include Copenhagen Contemporary (DK)\, MoMA (US)\, Barbican (UK)\, Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK)\, Berlinale (D)\, International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and BFI London Film Festival (UK). He lives and works in London. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-7/
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SUMMARY:Lily Balloffet\, Argentina in the Global Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Lily Pearl Balloffet (Latin American and Latino Studies\, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss her recent book\, Argentina in the Global Middle East\, in conversation with Devi Mays (University of Michigan). \nArgentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East\, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity\, migrant–homeland ties\, and international relations \n \nLily Pearl Balloffet is a scholar of migration\, mobility\, and inter-American relations in historical context. Her current book project\, American Venom: Snakes & Our Interconnected Hemisphere bridges environmental\, medical\, and labor histories of moving people and animals in the Caribbean Basin. She has also published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies\, Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of North African & Middle East Migration Studies\, Latin American Studies Association Forum\, and The Latin Americanist. Other research and teaching interests include contemporary Latin American hip hop\, and social revolutions. \nDevi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. (PhD\, History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University\, Bloomington). Dr. Mays researches transnational Jewish networks in the Mediterranean and global contexts\, with a focus on Sephardic Jews. She is the author of Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press\, 2020) – a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. \nCo-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-lily-ballofet/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T120000
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SUMMARY:Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
DESCRIPTION:The Ottoman Empire (and the Islamic world at large) was a manuscript culture until the late nineteenth century. That is\, many Ottoman subjects continued to copy books by hand even though they had been aware of printing in European lands for centuries. In recent years\, there has been a new wave of scholarship exploring how Ottoman manuscript culture functioned in practice rather than dismissing it as a “lack” of print. Historians have been particularly interested in demonstrating that even a manuscript culture could support a large number of readers\, even if many of them only possessed a “partially literacy.” \nIn this talk\, Professor Shafir first introduces his larger book project on “manuscript pamphlets\,” which he argues to be one of the new developments in the manuscript culture of the Ottoman Empire. Manuscript pamphlets were short and polemical texts that circulated across to the empire addressing many of the controversial social and religious issues of the time. They also were often aimed at semi-educated or partially literate readers. To understand pamphlets’ significance\, however\, one has to explore first how Ottoman subjects read and were educated. He argues that although the notion of partial literacy has been quite helpful\, it continues to hold an unexamined ideology of reading\, in which all acts of reading in the Ottoman Empire are ultimately replicable and uniform. In the early modern Ottoman Empire however the process of reading differed drastically depending on a reader’s intellectual formation and schooling\, the genre\, and the language in which they read and wrote. The “partially literate” did not just read slowly or poorly\, they read texts in an actively different way than the educated. This was especially true in regard to the auxiliary sciences of language—that is\, grammar\, rhetoric\, logic\, and disputation—that madrasa-trained scholars had made a central part of a scholar’s training. Pamphlets lay at the intersection of these different types of reading and readers. \n \nNir Shafir is an assistant professor of history at the University of California\, San Diego. His research explores the cultural and intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire between 1400-1800. He is currently preparing his first monograph\, Pamphleteering Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Politics and Polemics in a Manuscript Culture\, which examines the social effects of manuscript “pamphlets” on the religious life of the Ottoman Empire. He is a member of the editorial team of the Ottoman History Podcast\, the most popular podcast on Middle Eastern and Islamic history\, and served as editor-in-chief of the podcast in 2018. \n  \nThis talk is presented by the Humanities Institute and the Center for Middle East and North Africa as part of the UC Junior Faculty Exchange Series\, sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and UC Humanities Research Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nir-shafir/
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