CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Western Sahara: Multi-scalar Struggles, Recognition and Change in a Thawing Conflict
Irene Fernández-Molina, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Irene Fernández-Molina is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. She is a scholar of international...
Guest Lecture | Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University)
This talk introduces the concept of heritage forensics, a framework for studying abuses of cultural heritage in contexts of conflict,...
Provosts in Conversation: International Education at a Crossroads
Laurie McCauley, University of Michigan; John Coleman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; John Ciorciari, Indiana University Bloomington
This timely dialogue brings together provosts from three Midwestern public universities: University of Michigan, University of Illinois...
CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | ‘Vernacular Sovereignty’ Without a State: Kurdish Studies, Decolonial Thought, and the Making of Online Kurdistan
M. Mashuq Kurt, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
What does it mean to imagine a nation without a state? This talk draws on my broader research in Kurdish studies to examine how Kurdish...
Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture | A Captive's Testimony: The Lives and Lies of an Ottoman-Armenian Prisoner in the Bastille
Daniel Ohanian, Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian History
Inside a hefty volume of multilingual documents stored in La Courneuve, France, there sits nestled a 60-page work written in early modern...
CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Middle Eastern Christians: The Struggle for Recognition and Rights
Fiona McCallum Guiney, University of St Andrews, Scotland
A continued presence of Christians in the Middle East is perceived as at risk due to demographic change, adverse socio-economic conditions,...
