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Drop in for the Institute for Middle East Studies’ virtual Scholarly Lecture Series
More details and access links to each lecture will be posted on our Film and Lecture Series page.
- Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism with Aaron Jakes
- January 28, 12:00 pm
- IMES Lecture with Ben White (topic TBA)
- February 18, 12:00 pm
- The Lived Nile: Environment, disease, and material colonial economy in Egypt with Jenn Derr
- April 15, 12:00 pm
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Join us (virtually) for the annual IMES conference March 25-26.
This year’s annual conference theme is “Producing the Region: New Directions in Middle East Media and Politics.” It will take place March 25-26, 2021. Links to RSVP for each panel session will be available here.
The media landscape of the Middle East is changing rapidly. Turkish entertainment series are globalizing visions of the region. Netflix started a project of commissioning Arabic original entertainments, charting a new path towards localization of media production. Displaced populations from wars in Iraq, Yemen and Syria are creating new digital diasporas, where fractured expressions of nostalgia and witnessing circulate. Media are vital to making the Middle East a lived region of shared and contested meaning. The next IMES annual conference presents cutting-edge research by media scholars who examine this closely.
The genealogy of the idea of the ‘Middle East’ is by now well-rehearsed, and is often criticized as an external imposition that geographically centers the West. However, there is a viable contemporary current of felt belonging, along with an array of existing policies, institutions and other infrastructures of regionality, that makes the Middle East meaningful as an analytical framework that intertwines media and events.
The conference presenters possess expertise in media studies and the Middle East. They represent a breadth of theoretical interests, methodological approaches and disciplinary backgrounds. Confirmed speakers include: Will Youmans (The George Washington University), Omar al Ghazzi (LSE), Narges Bajoghli (Johns Hopkins), Adel Iskander (Simon Fraser University), Hatim el-Hibri (George Mason University), Nihat Celik (San Diego State University), Kay Dickinson (Concordia University), Ziad Fahmy (Cornell University), Melani McAlister (The George Washington University), Marwan Kraidy (University of Pennsylvania), Yasmin Moll (University of Michigan), Bilge Yesil (CUNY Staten Island), Elliott Colla (Georgetown), Niki Akhavan (Catholic University), Rayya El Zein (Wesleyan University), and Heather Jaber (University of Pennsylvania).
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