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CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture Series

This Series features faculty and graduate students' research.
Click here for Spring 2013 schedule!

The Perils of Princesses:

Real and Imagined Women
in Medieval Persian Literature

Richard Davis, Professor Emeritus of Persian Literature,
Ohio State University
Feb. 7 7:00 PM
Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center

Persian Music Performance

Bruno Nettl, Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropolog; and
Massoud Rostam-Abadi, Emeritus Professor, Illinois;
Principal Chemical Engineer Honorary, Prairie Research Institute.

Concert by award-winning classical guitarist:

Lily Afshar

Friday, March 29, 8:00 PM
Plym Auditorium, Room 134
Temple Buell Hall

Conference on
The Ganga National River
of India:

April 10-11
More details coming

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Upcoming Events

2013 International Summer Institute: Global Citizens, Global Education, Global Competency: Global Context in the Classroom
6/12/2013 - 6/15/2013
CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: ''Listening to Islamic Gardens''
9/17/2013, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Speaking: D.F. Ruggles, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: ''Pipeline: The Iraq Petroleum Company and the Kirkuk-Haifa Connection''
10/15/2013, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Speaking: Rachel Havrelock, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture
10/30/2013, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Speaking: Dina Khamis, Assistant Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: ''India at the United Nations: A Postcolonial Nation-State in the Global Arena''
11/19/2013, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Speaking: Julie Laut, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History

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News & Announcements

Commentary by Professor Feisal G. Mohamed: "In Syria and Beyond, the Tyrant as Target "

Posted Tue, 14 May 2013

Dr. Sullivan, Professor Emerita, Department of English, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award

Congratulations to Dr. Zohreh Sullivan! Dr. Sullivan, Professor Emerita, Department of English, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2013-14 academic year in Amman, Jordan where she will be teaching at the University of Jordan and conducting research on a project called Writers and the Battlefield of History. The project will reflect on how contemporary Arab writers think through problems of location, dislocation, and historical loss.

Posted Tue, 23 Apr 2013

Art Spots

Seven films on Islamic art, architecture, and gardens, written about and presented at the NEH Muslim bookshelf project by Professor Fairchild Ruggles, released.

Posted Mon, 18 Feb 2013

University of Illinois Professors Write on Egyptian Politics

Click here for ElBaradei's Gandhi Moment? by Linda Herrera, Magdy Alabady, and Adel Iskandar.

Click here for The constitutional amendment: Lessons from Iran by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi.

Click here for a discussion of recent protests and referendum vote by Ken Cuno.

Posted Tue, 18 Dec 2012

Illinois International Interview with New Middle East Conference Participant Prince Moulay Hicham

Click here to listen to New Middle East conference keynote speaker Moulay Hicham ben Abdallah, Prince of Morocco, Consulting Researcher at Stanford, as he is interviewd on Illinois International: The Changing Middle East, hosted by  Nicole Tami, Associate Director for International Engagement, IPS.

Posted Wed, 14 Nov 2012

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