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Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity
An International Conference of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association
September 24 - 27, 2009 at Yale University
As the discipline of medical anthropology reaches half a century of existence, it is time to celebrate both its accomplishments and its interdisciplinarity. With its 50-year-old foundation solidly in place, medical anthropology is currently expanding outward and interacting in many productive ways across disciplinary boundaries. The conference highlights more than a dozen areas where some of the most exciting interdisciplinary work is beginning to emerge in “new millennial” medical anthropology: Global Public Health; Mental Health; Science & Technology Studies; Genetics/Genomics; Bioethics; Public Policy; Occupational Science; Disability Studies; Gender/LGBT/Sexuality Studies; International & Area Studies; Medical History; Feminism & Technoscience; and Medicine/Primary Care.
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“Breaking the Veils” is a unique and compelling international art exhibition showcasing 51 women artists from 21 Islamic countries. This exhibit is designed to challenge contemporary stereotypes about the lives of women in the Islamic world and celebrates their artistic contribution in shaping a rich, culture heritage.
On display at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT and hosted by the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale from September 1 - December 12, 2009. Email cmes@yale.edu or call 203-436-2553 for more information.
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Celebrating Rumi
On Friday, March 27, 2009, the Middle East Studies Council will present Celebrating Rumi at 5:00pm in the Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. In celebration of the Persian New Year, Iraj Anvar will present a reading of selected Persian poetry from the Divan of the 13th century mystic and poet, Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Rumi, followed by English translations from: Say Nothing, a collaborative translation of Rumi, by Dr. Iraj Avar and Anne Twitty.
Iraj Anvar was born in Tehran into a family of lovers of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Iraj Anvar grew up with the sound of the poet’s words echoing in his ears. After a theatrical career in Italy and Iran, he settled in New York, where he gained a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies and taught courses in Persian language and literature. During this time, he continued to recite and sing the poems of Rumi and Hafez at venues such as Harvard, Columbia, St. John the Divine, and the Asia Society in New York. He is now a visiting professor at Brown University.
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Fatah-Hamas Rivalries after Gaza:
Impossible Unity?
On Wednesday, March 5, 2009, the Middle East Studies Council will host Benoit Challand at 4:30pm in Room 105, 10 Sachem Street. Benoit Challand is a senior research fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence and Senior Lecturer at the University of Bologna (Italy). He earned a PhD in Social and Political Science from the European University Institute, Florence in 2005 under the supervision of Philippe C. Schmitter. He is the author of Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude (Routledge, 2009) and has published articles in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and European Journal of Social Theory. He is also guest lecturer in Bethlehem, Pavia and Fribourg (Switzerland). He is currently working on a new book dealing with the clash of civilizations as a political myth and a co-edited volume on politics and imagination (under review now with Columbia University Press). www.benoitchalland.net.
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Turkey Decoded
Sweden's former ambassador to Turkey, Ann Dismorr, will give a lecture at Yale University on Feb. 23rd at 6pm in the Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. Ann Dismorr is the author of Turkey Decoded (Saqi Books, London, 2008). Reception in the Common Room at 6:00 p.m. with Turkey Decoded available for purchase and signed by the Ambassador. Followed by lecture in the Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. The talk will be introduced and moderated by Sallama Shaker, a visiting scholar at Yale and the former Egyptian ambassador to Canada.
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The Politics of Dissent in North Africa
From February 20-22, 2009, the Council on Middle East Studies will host a conference that examines the everyday functioning of politics and dissent in North Africa. Moving away from normative and abstract claims about the so-called ‘authoritarian’ aspect of North African regimes, this conference takes up an ethnographic approach. Its objective is to underline the various and complex mechanisms through which North African regimes have been able to survive in the past decades. Drawing upon a broad range of case studies, participants will examine the complex interaction between various types of actors within specific contexts. Rather than looking for a single-cause explanation of North African politics, the conference will emphasize the multifaceted relations between and among State and society, governments and opposition parties, nation-states and the international community.
This interdisciplinary conference has important practical consequences for a better understanding of a region that tends to be less studied than the Middle East. It will also provide scholars from Europe, North Africa and the U.S. with a unique opportunity to meet, exchange and confront their views and methodologies.
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Conference To Explore How Social, Economic and Political
Transformations Affect Governance in Africa and the Middle East
On January 30-31, 2009, The Council on Middle East Studies will host a conference, “Rethinking Development: Societal Transformations and the Challenges of Governance,” at Yale University. It will take place at the MacMillan Center, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, and is free and open to the public.
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Top Academics and Policy Analysts Gather at Symposium on Reconfiguring A Region: Opportunities and Challenges in the Middle East
The Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University will host a symposium on the current political reconfiguration in the greater Middle East and the impact of U.S. policies on the future development of the region on September 26 and 27, 2008.
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Security, Individual Rights and Minority Communities After 9/11
How do we maintain national security while also protecting individual civil liberties? On March 25, the Council on Middle East hosted a panel and community discussion around this quandary through presentations by scholars, legal experts, and other professionals in conversation with Yale and New Haven community members. Surveying topics from FBI surveillance techniques to the experience of Muslim communities to a history of terrorist tactics, the discussion investigated legal, social, and political implications for the post-9/11 experience.
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Education in New Cairo
In April 2008, eight high school students from the Center for Global Studies (CGS) in Norwalk, Conn., traveled to Egypt for a pioneering two-week study tour. Led by their teacher, Emad El-Digwy, and Greta Scharnweber, the MacMillan Center’s PIER Director for Middle East Studies, the students were hosted by the Modern Education School (MES) in New Cairo, a sprawling suburb of the largest city in the Arab World.
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Contemporary Middle East Studies Strengthened
The Council on Middle East Studies of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has announced an initiative to promote richer understanding of contemporary issues in the Middle East. The initiative will complement Yale's already substantial offerings and resources in ancient, pre-modern and modern Middle East Studies, and expand research and teaching on the Middle East, and its relations with the rest of the world. In the first three years of the initiative, the Yale-Middle East Visiting Faculty Program, the keystone component, will bring distinguished visiting scholars to teach courses and do research on the region at Yale.
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Black Gold Tour to the Persian Gulf
We hear on almost a daily basis that oil remains one of the world’s most precious and sought-after commodities, and that the most extensive reserves of this natural resource lie in the Middle East. This past November, ten educators (four college-level and six high school-level) traveled with PIER Outreach Director Greta Scharnweber to Qatar and the U.A.E. for a field study tour designed to look into this assumption and explore a variety of topics related to oil in the Middle East and beyond. It focused broadly on the rapidly developing economies of the Arabian Peninsula, touched upon oil and energy issues, and focused most significantly on educational and cultural exchange.
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Hizballah, the Israel Defense Forces and Beyond
On September 14, the Henry R. Luce Hall auditorium filled with members of the Yale community and the
general public to hear a panel discussion, “Hizballah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Beyond:
Perspectives on the Current Crisis in the Middle East.”
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PIER Outreach: On the Road to Morocco
Where the Middle East is concerned, most people initially think of political strife, religious fundamentalism, and violent conflict. This past summer, PIER-Middle East Studies took a
radically different approach to learning and teaching about Middle Eastern culture and
society. Rather than playing into simplistic stereotypes of the region, “Arts in Action in the
Middle East” looked first at arts and culture, tracing the historical, political, and social impact
of the creative arts in the region over time.
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