CMES Lecture Series Spring 2001

 

Regents Lecture

• January 22nd
  "The Concept of Civilization and the History of Civilizations"
  Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh
  American University of Beirut
  
  

Sultan Lecture

• January 29th
  "Islamic Civilization: Origin and Continuities"
  Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh
  American University of Beirut

• February 5th
  "Islamic Civilization: Specialties and Distinctions"
  Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh
  American University of Beirut

• February 12th
  "Stories about Stories: The Historiography of Rabbinic Judaism"
  Professor Daniel Boyarin
  Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley

• February 26
  "Dialogue of Civilizations: Interfaith Perspectives"
  Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi
  UC Berkeley (co-sponsored by the Society of Iranian Professionals)

• March 5th
  "Lip Service, Too Little, Too Late: On How Italians Did Not Practice Segregation in Colonial Tripoli (1911-1943)"
  Professor Mia Fuller
  Department of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley

• March 12th
  "Amman is Not a City: Urban Citizenship and Regional Comparisons"
  Dr. Seteney Shami
  Social Science Research Council, New York

• March 19th
  "Attitudes toward Islam and Democracy: Recent Evidence from Public Opinion Research"
  Professor Mark Tessler
  Department of Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson

• April 9th
  "Narrating the Monumental Past: Issues in Persian Literary History"
  Professor Wali Ahmadi
  Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley