“Teaching about Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East”

Date: October 7-9, 2010

Keynote Address

“Teaching about Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East”
Dr. Nancy Gallagher

Date: October 7, 2010
Time: 5 pm
Place: Fresno State Peters Building 191

Dr. Nancy Gallagher is Professor of Middle East History and previous Chair of Middle East Studies Program at UCSB. Her areas of expertise and research include Comparative Gender History, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, and the Modern Middle East.

Dr. Gallagher teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including a Proseminar on Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East and North Africa; Post colonial and Postmodern Discourses on Africa and the Middle East; Women and Gender in Middle Eastern history.

A scholar and mentor in Middle East Women’s Studies, Dr. Gallagher is Co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, a multidisciplinary, international organization affiliated with the Middle East Studies Association, for which she has served as Past-president.

Currently Dr. Gallagher is working on a book entitled “Women and Islam: Human Rights and Activism” under contract to Routledge Press. Her previous publications include:

Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (American University in Cairo Press, 2007). Early efforts by peacemakers in the world’s longest refugee crisis.

Femmes, Cultures, et Societes au Maghreb, 2 vols. Co-edited with Rahma Bouqia and Mounira Charrad (Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 1996)

Approaches to the History of the Middle East, Interviews with Leading Historians (Ithaca Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1996)

Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health, (Syracuse University Press, 1990)
Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780-1900 Cambridge University Press, 1983, Paperback edition, 2002

"THE WORLD IS MY HOME: CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ARTISTS ABROAD"

College of Arts and Humanities Middle Eastern Studies Program Presents:

Dr. Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Date: Friday March 13, 2009
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Place: Education Building 172
Relaxed Parking in Lot C

Hamid Dabashi is an Iranian-American intellectual historian, cultural critic and literary theorist who has made important contributions to the study of Iran, world cinema and Shi'Islam from a post colonial perspective. He is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City, the oldest and most prestigious Chair in Iranian Studies. He is the author of nineteen books. Among them are his Authority in Islam; Theology of Discontent; Truth and Narrative; Close Up: Iranian Cinema; Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran; an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema; and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history.

AVAILABLE SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships Are Still Available for the Conference on Middle East Studies
The College of Arts and Humanities Conference on Middle East Studies will take place on October 16 – 18, 2008.
Scholarships are available for Fresno State students, staff, and faculty.
If you are interested go to the Cultural Heritage Institute website at www.csufresno.edu/cvchi.

CONFERENCE ON MIDDLE EAST STUDIES: OCT. 16-18

Oct. 17: My Country My Country (2006). 90 mins. Director Laura Poitrascreates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S.occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor,father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic of theoccupation, he is equally passionate about the need to establishdemocracy in Iraq. Yet all around him, Dr. Riyadh sees only chaos, ashis waiting room fills each day with patients suffering the physical andmental effects of ever-increasing violence. Dramatically interwoven intothe personal journey of Dr. Riyadh is the landscape of the U.S. militaryoccupation, with Australian private security contractors, Americanjournalists and the U.N. officials who orchestrated the 2005 elections.The film captures the downward spiral of one man caught in the tragiccontradictions of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its project to spreaddemocracy in the Middle East.

Cineculture Club promotes cultural awareness through film andpost-screening discussions.

For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/

The College of Arts and Humanities presents
CONFERENCE ON MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
Teaching about the Middle East in the 21st Century
October 16 – 18
Middle Eastern Studies scholars from across the world will come together for the first West Coast conference on teaching about the Middle East in the 21st century. .

Thursday, October 16
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Haleh Afshar, OBE, University of York,
“Islam and Feminisms” at the Alice Peters Auditorium
6:30 – 8:00 PM

Friday, October 17
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Juan Cole, University of Michigan,
“Making Iraq Understandable” in the Peters Education Center
8:00 PM

Saturday, October 18
10:30 AM - 12 PM
"What the Future Has in Store for the Middle East"
Satellite Student Union