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Arab/Islamic
Civilization Beyond the 1001 Nights and September 11
On November 13, 2001, the Department presented
a panel discussion entitled Arab/Islamic Civilization
Beyond the 1001 Nights and September 11. Speakers
included: Dimitri Gutas, Religion and Civilization in
the Arab/Islamic World; Kishwar Rizvi, Sites of Prayer
and Poetry: Shrines in 16th-century Iran and India; Beatrice
Gruendler, The Meeting of Cultures in Classical Arabic
Literature; Bassam Frangieh, Intellectual Currents in
the Modern Arab/Islamic World; and Benjamin Foster, Crises
and Arabic Language Study. Discussion was moderated by
Karen Foster and Dimitri Gutas. |
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Iraq
Beyond the Headlines
The Department organized a teach-in for the university
community on April 1, 2003, entitled Iraq Beyond
the Headlines. Panelists included: Eckart Frahm,
Bombs Over Babylon: The Archaeological Heritage of Iraq;
Siam Bhayro, Christians and Jews in Iraq; Beatrice Gruendler,
Institutions of Learning in Iraq; Dimitri Gutas, Baghdad
and Islamic Civilization; and Benjamin Foster, Yale
and Iraq. Discussion was moderated by Karen Foster.
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videotape of this event may be ordered by contacting
maureen.draicchio@yale.edu.
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Iraq
Beyond the Headlines II
On October 28, 2003, the Department organized its second
teach-in on the situation in Iraq. Panelists included
Benjamin Foster, Creating a New Iraq, 1919-1923; Karen
Foster and Eckart Frahm, Art, Archaeology, War; Dimitri
Gutas, Libraries, Books, Information; and Bassam Frangieh,
Reaction in the Arab/Islamic World. Discussion was moderated
by Siam Bhayro.
A videotape of this event may be ordered by contacting
maureen.draicchio@yale.ed. |
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Iraq
Beyond the Headlines III
On October 19, 2004, the Department sponsored its third
panel discussion on current issues in Iraq. The speakers
included James J. Silk, Human Rights Implications of the
Iraq War and Occupation; Benjamin R. Foster and Karen
Foster, The Murder of Mesopotamia; Catherine Sease, Rebuilding
the Iraq Museum; Eckart Frahm and Kathryn Slanski, A New
Generation of Iraqi Scholars. Bassam Frangieh moderated
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The Future of the Global Past: An International Symposium on Cultural Property, Antiquities Issues, and Archaeological Ethics
On April 14, 2007, the Department co-organized and co-sponsored an all-day symposium that featured eighteen speakers in four sessions on the following topics: Whose Culture? Whose Property?; The Media and the Message; Scholars and Collectors, Laws and Ethics; and Yale and the Past. Departmental participants included Karen Foster, Benjamin Foster, and Colleen Manassa.
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Iraq Beyond the Headlines IV took place on 12 February 2008, with a focus on aspects of the U.S. military's involvement in cultural heritage and preservation in Iraq. The speakers were Laurie W. Rush, U.S. Army Archaeologist, Fort Drum, New York, and Matthew Bogdanos, Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps. Karen Foster moderated the discussion. |
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UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS |
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Centennial of the Yale Babylonian Collection
On Saturday, 14 November 2009, there will be a special celebration of the Centennial of the Yale Babylonian Collection, featuring an afternoon symposium, a showing of the Fall of Babylon sections of the classic silent film, "Intolerance," and an evening concert of music with Mesopotamian themes. In addition, there will be two exhibitions at Sterling Memorial Library, "Treasures of the Yale Babylonian Collection" and "From Nineveh to New Haven." |
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Conceptualizing Literary
History: Foundations of Arabic Literature
In cooperation with the Université de Paris VIII-Saint Denis, and with the support of the Whitney Humanities Center and the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale, the Department will hold a conference on "Conceptualizing Literary
History: Foundations of Arabic Literature" on April 16-18, 2010.
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