{ "150313-21909004": { "datetime_modified":"20260816T221357", "datetime_start":"20260916T140000", "datetime_end":"20260916T160000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2026-09-16", "date_end":"2026-09-16", "time_start":"14:00:00", "time_end":"16:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Projecting Power: Film Diplomacy and the Making of the Turkey-US Alliance", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Projecting Power: Film Diplomacy and the Making of the Turkey-US Alliance: Ay\u015fehan J\u00fclide Etem, University of Virginia", "event_subtitle":"Ay\u015fehan J\u00fclide Etem, University of Virginia", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "description":"How do states project power beyond military cooperation? This talk examines the role of educational films, institutional networks, and audiovisual media in shaping the US\u2013Turkey alliance before and during the Cold War. Drawing on *Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey\u2013US Relations *(Columbia University Press, 2026), Etem argues that film was central to the projection of power through international alliances and institution building. Bringing together archival research from Turkey and the United States, the talk traces how governments, universities, philanthropic foundations, and international organizations collaborated to produce, circulate, and exhibit films that supported political, educational, and developmental agendas. By examining film as a technology of governance, the talk offers a new perspective on how media shaped international relations and the making of Cold War alliances in the Middle East.\n\nAy\u015fehan J\u00fclide Etem is Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Film Studies concentration at the University of Virginia. She is a media historian and documentary film scholar whose research examines how media infrastructures and cultural institutions shape international relations, public life, and systems of power. Her work focuses on global film cultures, public diplomacy, documentary, and the politics of media. She is the author of *Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey\u2013US Relations* (Columbia University Press, 2026), which identifies and examines how institutional networks, educational films and audiovisual media helped construct the US\u2013Turkey alliance before and during the Cold War. Her current research investigates documentary film and gun violence, as well as the history of population control films and reproductive governance. Her work has appeared in journals including *Communication, Culture & Critique*, *Global Perspectives*, the *Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television*, the* Journal of e-Media Studies*, and *NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies*, and is forthcoming in Film History.\n\nJoin on Zoom: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/8Jqy2\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. 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Balakian examines how his ancestors have provided a grounding for his work, ancestors like his great-great uncle, Krikoris Balakian (Bishop in the Armenian Church), one of the 250 cultural leaders arrested on April 24, 1915, and his grandmother, Nafina Shekerlemdjian who along with her two young daughters survived the Genocide enduring a harrowing death march into the Syrian desert.\n\nPeter Balakian is an award winning poet, author and translator. His *Ozone Journal* was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Most recently he has published a book of poems, *New York Trilogy* (2025), that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and the politics of the Middle East. Balakian\u2019s poems have appeared widely in leading magazines and journals including, *The New Yorker: 100 Years of Poetry*. His prose books range from *Vice and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination*, poetry, art and culture, to *Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir*, \u2014 winner of the 1998 PEN\/Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir (a best book of the year for the New York Times, the LA Times, and Publisher\u2019s Weekly). Balakian is the recipient of many awards and prizes amongst them: the Pulitzer Prize, The Presidential Medal and the Movses Khorenatsi Medal from the Republic of Armenia, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is the Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English at Colgate University.\n\nhttps:\/\/umich.zoom.us\/j\/99080532632\n\nCosponsors: Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Department of Middle East Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, Residential College, and National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)\n\n\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. 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From the Syrian civil war to conflicts across Africa and the movement of people from the Indian subcontinent, this moment in 2015-16 came to be framed as the \u2018migrant crisis\u2019. It also became a media crisis, marked by an explosion of alarmist reporting about people on the move. Rather than being treated as a humanitarian emergency requiring search and rescue missions, the movement of vulnerable people across the Mediterranean was increasingly depicted as an attack by \u201cinvaders\u201d from \u201cover there\u201d. The media too often relied on visual tropes of small boats, barbed wire, and faceless masses, stripping people of their dignity and humanity.\n\nDrawing on a decade of his reporting across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Ismail Einashe will in this lecture examine how the media constructed the figure of the \u201cmigrant\u201d in the global public imagination, reducing complex human movements to extreme binaries: the \u201cvulnerable body\u201d or the \u201cdangerous outsider.\u201d He will consider how, a decade on, this narrative has fueled increasing securitisation across the Mediterranean, even as fewer migrants arrive.\n\nEinashe will explore why this story has become one of the biggest \u2014 and most divisive \u2014 stories in recent history. He will also analyse whether the media simply reported Europe's migration story or helped shape it into a permanent \u2018crisis\u2019 that now threatens European democracy.\n\nIsmail Einashe is an award-winning British-Somali journalist and author whose work on migration and refugee issues has appeared in numerous publications \u2013 including *Foreign Policy*, *The Guardian*, *BBC News*, *The Nation*, *The Sunday Times*, *The New York Times*, *NPR* and *ArtReview*. He is the author of *Strangers* (2023), a book by Tate Publishing that explores migration through the lens of art, and he co-edited *Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere* (2019), a collection of critical essays examining how migrants are represented in European media. He was a 2025\u201326 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he examined migration reporting through the lens of trauma and art. Einashe is also part of a team of journalists working on Lost in Europe, a cross-border journalism collaborative that investigates the disappearance of child migrants. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan.\n\nRegister at: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/qwg1Z\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. 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Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilization and Languages+\n\n11:15\u201312:30: Building CMENAS: Foundations & Transformations, Former Directors Panel \n\n1:30 \u2013 2:45: CMENAS in Practice: Careers & Impact featuring CMENAS Alumni, Language Lecturers, and K\u201312 Educators\n\n2:50\u2013 2:55: Keynote Introductions\n\n3:00\u20134:30: Keynote by Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\n4:30\u20134:40 PM: Closing Remarks\n\nAbout the Keynote Speaker:\nAaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books, including his most recent, The End of Greatness: Why America Can\u2019t Have (and Doesn\u2019t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America\u2019s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008), and hosts Carnegie Connects, Carnegie\u2019s premier live podcast. He received his PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in 1977. Miller hosts Carnegie Connects, Carnegie\u2019s premier live podcast.\n\nMiller\u2019s articles have appeared in the *New York Times*, *Washington Post*, *Politico*, *Foreign Policy Magazine*, and *Foreign Affairs Magazine*. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, and SiriusXM Radio.\n\nJoin on Zoom: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/E78M6", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"150692-21909932@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/150692", "building_id":"1000191", "building_name":"Michigan League", "campus_maps_id":"108", "room":"Vandenberg Room (2nd Floor)", "location_name":"Michigan League", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Middle East Studies","Area Studies","center for middle eastern and north african studies","cmenas","Conference"], "website":"https:\/\/myumi.ch\/E78M6", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies", "group_id":"2563", "website":"http:\/\/www.ii.umich.edu\/cmenas" } ], "image_url":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_large_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "group_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "group_thumb_square":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_thumb_square\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "group_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "group_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_large_crop":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_large_crop\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_list":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_list\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_list_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_grid":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_grid\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_grid_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_grid_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_feature_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_feature_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg", "event_feature_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_150692_original-1.jpg" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":21909932 } , "151293-21911330": { "datetime_modified":"20260901T102705", "datetime_start":"20261028T140000", "datetime_end":"20261028T160000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2026-10-28", "date_end":"2026-10-28", "time_start":"14:00:00", "time_end":"16:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea: Jatin Dua, University of Michigan", "event_subtitle":"Jatin Dua, University of Michigan", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "description":"The story of shipping and of global trade is often narrated as one of ever-increasing efficiency and speed, of transitions from sail to steam to cargo and futures of automation\u2014of making straight lines. But, for as long as there has been trade (and ships) there have been delays and interruptions\u2014rerouters and rerouting. I argue that disruptions and moments when things appear to be stuck or rerouted are neither aberrations nor failures. Rerouting, far from being an exception, is both the norm and, at times, such as this contemporary moment of wars, sanctions, and tariffs, is a condition desired by many as a mode of profit and possibility.\n\nTo showcase the productive possibilities of rerouting, I focus on one sea route\u2014the Bab-el-Mandeb, a key chokepoint for global trade connecting Europe to Asia and the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. In 2023, in response to Houthi attacks on merchant ships, this shipping route briefly disappeared, as cargo ships were rerouted through the Cape of Good Hope. I tell this story of this rerouting and its consequences both ephemeral and long-lasting from the perspective of a mobile set of actors in the Red Sea. Locating them within longer histories and wider geographies, I argue for the centrality of interruptions within our understandings of circulation and crossings in the Indian Ocean and beyond.\n\nJatin Dua is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan (U-M). He also directs the Oceans Lab at U-M, dedicated to collaborative and multimodal ways of engaging oceans as anthropological interlocutors. His research explores maritime mobility, and its perils and possibilities, in the Indian Ocean, focusing on processes and projects of governance, law, and economy. His book, *Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean, published with the University of California Press* (December 2019) [winner of the 2020 Elliot P. Skinner Book Award; shortlisted for the 2024 Monsoon Book Prize and translated into Italian and Greek] is a multi-sited ethnographic and archival engagement with Somali piracy and contestations over legitimate and illegitimate commerce in the Western Indian Ocean. In addition, he has published several articles on maritime anthropology, captivity, political economy, and sovereignty in *Public Culture*, *American Ethnologist*, *Cultural Anthropology,* *Ethnos*, *Annual Review of Anthropology*, *History and Anthropology* and *Comparative Studies in Society and History*. He is currently the editor-in-chief of *Comparative Studies in Society and History*.\n\nRSVP: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/PbbAb\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. 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I situate this case within a longer arc of my work on Kurdish politics and within a decolonial reading of Kurdish studies more broadly. Rather than offering a general theory of sovereignty, the talk uses the Kurdish case to think through a live and unresolved question in the study of stateless nations: what forms can political authority, legitimacy, and collective imagination take when territorial statehood is foreclosed, and what is gained and lost when that struggle moves online.\n\nMashuq Kurt is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work sits at the intersection of Middle Eastern studies and the sociology of migration and diaspora, examining how Kurds and other marginalised communities construct political authority and belonging outside the institutions of the nation-state. 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A regular contributor to public and policy debates, he has organised panels and given talks at the UK Parliament, Chatham House, and RUSI, and his commentary has appeared in Foreign Policy, Le Monde, and The New Arab, among others. He is also an award-winning filmmaker: his documentary *The Seven Doors *received the Jean Rouch Award from the American Anthropological Association's Society for Visual Anthropology in 2020.\n\nJoin on Zoom: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/pgV2y\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. 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This paper explores the different strategies pursued by Middle East Christians in the region and diaspora to be recognized as Christians and claim their rights as citizens.\n\nFiona McCallum Guiney is Professor and Head of the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her research on Middle Eastern Christians focuses on group identity, the connection between legitimacy and religious leadership, and group interactions at the state-community and society-community levels, both in the Middle East and diaspora. Professor Guiney was the Project Leader of the EU funded study \u2018Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christian Communities in Europe\u2019. She is a former Director of the Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies at the University of St Andrews.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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