University of Pittsburgh

"The Fallout of the War in Syria: Understanding the Conflict's Regional Consequences" For information and to register, go to: https://www.usip.org/events/fallout-war-syria

US Institute of Peace webinars. (The US Institute of Peace is a State Department organization.)

."Whiter the Middle East: More Conflict or New Peace?" For a lot more information and to register, go to: https://engage.wilsoncenter.org/a/mep_iran-regional-flashpoint

The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for Latin American Studies is offering a 2-part webinar series "Pandemics and Health Crises in the Middle East and Latin America.

Wednesday, October 28, is "Responses to Modern-Day Health Crises in the Middle East and Latin America" by UA faculty Stefanie Graeter and Laura Goffman. Both take place from 4:30-6:00 pm Arizona Time, which is 7:30-9:00 pm Eastern Time.

The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for Latin American Studies is offering a 2-part webinar series "Pandemics and Health Crises in the Middle East and Latin America.
You can attend one or both; they are free, but you must register in advance. The first, on Wednesday, October 21, is "Pandemics in History: Case Studies - Latin America and the Middle East" by historians Ryan Kashanipour and Christopher Rose.

ACMCU and the African Studies Program invite you to the following special event:

Registration: https://georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jylq4yXpQLGWVOe-jOmtuQ

Speakers

Dr. Data D. Barata

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Associate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College, Oxford. From 2011-2013, he was Assistant Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Dominic currently serves on the Editorial Board of Middle Eastern Literatures and, for a decade (2004-2014), he was Assistant Editor for Iranian Studies. He is a former member of both the Board of the International Society for Iranian Studies, and the Governing Council of the British Institute of Persian Studies.

The 1979 Revolution gave birth to a political order that defined God as its greatest protector and Satan as its ultimate foe. While scholars have long grappled with the Islamic Republic’s theological master narratives, Satan’s multifaceted role in the Iranian political and religious landscape remains poorly understood. In this talk, I offer an analysis of a range of sources— textual, ethnographic, and audiovisual—to argue that in the past two decades, confrontations with the Accursed One have fragmented into contradictory, anxiety-ridden struggles for the soul of the Islamic Republic.

Afshin Marashi is the Farzaneh Family Professor of Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Iranian Studies. He is the author of Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran, which was published by the University of Texas in 2020. His previous work includes Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940 (University of Washington, 2008), and a co-edited volume titled Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity (University of Texas, 2014).

Moving Beyond Pandemic Arms Sales
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JLlqIorTRgqJnn3doO8AKg
VIRTUAL EVENT

DATE: September 24, 2020
TIME: 10:00-11:30 AM EDT