Spring 2021 Humanities Seminars In Jewish & Middle Eastern Studies

Dartmouth College
The Humanities Seminar in Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies Presents

Thursday, April 8, 2021, 5:00 pm
The Nahdda and the Haskala: A Comparative Reading of "Revival" and "Reform"
Lital Levy, Princeton University

Thursday, April 15, 2021, 5:00 pm
The Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
Ussama Makdisi, Rice University

Thursday, April 29, 2021, 5:00 pm
The Colonized Semites and the Infectious Disease: Anti-Semitism in the Levant, 1870–1914
Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago

Thursday, May 13, 2021, 5:00 pm
The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
Hoda El Shakry, University of Chicago

Thursday, May 20, 2021, 5:00 pm
After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture
Ammiel Alcalay, CUNY-Graduate Center

Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 2:00 pm
Reparative Translation and Re-appropriation: In the Groove of Arabic Art and Philosophy
Emily Apter, New York University

Thursday, May 27, 2021, 5:00 pm
Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema
Deborah Starr, Cornell University

PLEASE USE THE SAME ZOOM LINK FOR ALL EVENTS.

Join the lecture on April 8 with this Zoom Link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/91996807832?pwd=RWsyblE1eUw4RXlRcEVyMTlQU0hxZz09

Meeting ID: 919 9680 7832
Passcode: 131496

Free and open to the public.

For questions contact:
Ryan.N.Ellis.22@Dartmouth.edu

Sponsors: The Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, and the Jewish Studies Program.