Events Archive

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

CMES Graduate Fellows Panel

Survival, Technology, & Science

Location: online

CMES Graduate Fellows Panel

Palestine as Method

Location: Girvetz 2320

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

Public Lecture

The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur’an Manuscript

Location: HSSB 3001E

Host/s: Organized by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies

Public Lecture

Al-Maqrizi’s Khitat: A Transhistorical Paean to Cairo

Location: Girvetz 2320

Public Lecture

Understanding Geographies of Protest: Insights from Jordan

Location:  McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020. 

Host/s: Organized by the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies and CMES.

Performance

Middle East Ensemble Winter Concert

Location: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall

CMES Graduate Fellows Panel

The Politics of the Everyday: Crime, Charity, & Economy

Location: Online

Seminar

Archival Practices Beyond the State: Microhistories of Households in early modern Isfahan

Location: Girvetz 2320

Host/s: Organized by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies