CMES Spotlight Series
Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Egypt
Location: Girvetz 2320
Film Screening
The Citizen
Location: Pollock Theater
Host/s: Organized by Carsey-Wolf Center and co-sponsored by CMES
Book Talk
Transnational Palestine
Location: HSSB 3001E
Host/s: Co-organized by CMES, LAIS, and the Dept. of History
Book Talk
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Location: Loma Pelona Center.
Host/s: Co-organized by CMES & the Orfalea Center
Book Launch
Arabic Glitch
Location: McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Host/s: Co-organized by CMES and Film & Media Studies, with IHC.
Book Talk
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Location: This is a hybrid event, in person in SSMS 2001 and via zoom here.
Host/s: Global Studies Colloquium, co-sponsored by CMES
Film Screening
CWC Global: Lamya’s Poem
Location: Pollock Theater
Host/s: Sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center, Religious Studies, & CMES
Panel
American Muslim Comedy: A Serious Conversation
Location: online
Host/s: Sponsored by the Hani Sadek Fund for Islamic Studies, the Walter H. Capps Center, and CMES
CMES Post-Doctoral Fellow Talk
Women Negotiating Shariʿa, Zakon, and Adat in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus – A Microhistory
Location: Online
symposium
Iranian Studies Symposium
Host/s: Department of History of Art and Architecture, Iranian Studies Initiative, and CMES
Public Art Exhibition
Woman. Life. Freedom
Location: UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Host/s: Organized by UCSB Arts & Lectures and Co-sponsored by CMES
Public Lecture
Challenging Hate: How to Stop Anti-AAPI Violence and Bias
Location: Online and at the UCSB Multicultural Center Theater
Host/s: Organized by Capp Center and co-sponsored by CMES
Panel
Asian American Activism: Drawing on History, Inspiring the Future
Location: Online and at the UCSB Multicultural Center Theater
Host/s: Organized by Capp Center and co-sponsored by CMES
Public Lecture
Live, Die, Repeat: Burying and Resurrecting Iranian Pop Stars in Southern California
Location: Music Library 2406
Host/s: Organized by CISM and co-sponsored by Ethnomusicology Forum, CMES, and the Iranian Studies Initiative.
Public Lecture
The Pasha’s New Clothes: The History Section of an 18th-Century Library from Acre
Location: HSSB 4080
Host/s: Organized by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies
CMES Graduate Fellows Panel
The Land and What Lies Beneath It: Food, Maps & Sanitation
Location: Online