Brown Bag Lectures
The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies sponsors Brown Bag lectures during the fall and spring academic semesters. The Brown Bag lectures are held on Tuesdays at noon in the Lucy Ellis Lounge (room 1080, Foreign Language Building). Please join us in learning about CSAMES members' current research, pedagogical issues, recent research trips, and conference paper presentations.
Please see the Brown Bag flyer for a printable PDF version of the schedule.
Fall 2009 Schedule
| September 1 | Eman Saddah, Department of Linguistics “The Acoustics of Voiceless Nasalized Fricatives: the Case of Arabic” |
| September 8 | Amita Sinha , Prof. of Landscape Architecture “Natural History of Delhi” |
| September 15** | Ercan Balci, Lecturer of Linguistics “How Do Turkish Heritage Speakers Write?” **Please note this lecture will be at 1:00pm. |
| September 22 | Ozge Sensoy, School of Social Work “Education is Important But...: A Pilot Study of Low Income Kurdish Mothers’ Attitudes and Decisions about Their Children’s Education” |
| September 29 | Kenneth Cuno, Assoc. Prof. of History “The Family Question and Feminist Beginnings in 19th Century Egypt” |
| October 6 | Asma Faiz, Department of Political Science "Shifting Patterns of the US Foreign Policy towards South Asia" |
| October 14** | Mohammad Khalil, Asst. Prof. of Religion “Which Road to Paradise? The Controversy of Reincarnation in Islamic Thought” **Please note this lecture is on Wednesday. The lecture is cosponsored by Parkland College's Parkland Reads program. |
| October 20 | Natasha Samreny, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies "Telling a Story: Walking the Streets of Lebanon" |
| October 27 | Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Director of CSAMES and Prof. of Economics "Women and the Labor Market in the Middle East and North Africa" |
| November 3 | Reshmi Mukherjee, Comparative and World Literature “The Nation and Its Women: Rereading the Body Space Relationship in Assia Djebar’s Femme D’alger Dans Leur” |
| November 10 | Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Prof., CSAMES “A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War” |
| November 17 | Sevinc Turkkan, Comparative and World Literature "Orhan Pamuk’s Textual and Cinematic Translators: My Name is Red and Waiting for Heaven" **Please note this lecture will take place in room 101 in the International Studies Building (12:00pm-1:00pm). |