Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-01T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-08T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-06T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-27T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (August 3, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-03T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (August 24, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-08-24T14:00:00-04:00 2022-08-24T15:00:00-04:00 Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (August 29, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 29, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-08-29T16:00:00-04:00 2022-08-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-01T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-19T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series (September 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96941 96941-21793600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

“Race and Racism, Comparatively” is a series of three conversations highlighting the work of scholars both in and beyond U-M whose scholarship is contributing to much-needed conversations on the global dimension of race, racism, and their impacts. Through these events, we seek to help broaden the aperture through which the academic community considers these themes, encouraging an understanding of a dynamic and interconnected set of systems, practices and material effects.

September 20th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Virtual conversation with University of Pennsylvania scholar and president of the Middle East Studies Association, Eve Troutt Powell and Tennessee State University scholar, Keisha Brown. A cultural historian, Professor Troutt Powell’s scholarship has focused the history of the modern Middle East with a particular emphasis on slavery in the Nile Valley and in the former Ottoman Empire. Professor Brown’s work has focused on modern China and the negotiation of Sino-Blackness; her research interests broadly include ethnic and race studies, postcolonial theory and social and cultural history in East Asia.
Register here:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

October 4th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Roundtable featuring U-M faculty whose scholarship takes up the question of race and racism according to a transnational lens. The areas of focus represented among the participants include: the construction of blackness in the Francophone world; race, gender and Islam; the role of race and racialization as a tool of biopower in Mexico; and race and representation in US classrooms, literature and media. This event will be in-person at Kuenzel Room in the Michigan League, with a hybrid stream option.
Register for streaming here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

November 1st 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Pedagogy Workshop. The groups will function as both an opportunity to reflect on the provocations raised during previous two events, dissect our assumptions about race on the global stage, and exchange ideas and best practices for teaching the same. The aim is to create a constructive and productive dialogue which will ideally produce a series of “best practices'' for teaching race and racism from a comparative, global standpoint. This event will be in-person at the Vandenberg Room in the League, with a hybrid stream option on Zoom. Register for streaming here:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckduqtrjsuE9xTanfVcbmqesT3ENeGLkJo


Co-sponsored by: Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, NCID, CMENAS, Middle East Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, History, and LACS.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:16:17 -0400 2022-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Poster of the events.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 22, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
What I Talk about when I Talk about Palestine (September 26, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97463 97463-21794613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the early waves of immigration to the Americas, and more than seven decades after the Nakba of 48, generations of Palestinians have grown up in a variety of different contexts within Israel-Palestine and the world at large. This ongoing scattered state has led to the proliferation of Palestinian culture as it is simultaneously growing in multiple directions, depending on geographical, political, and lingual contextualization. The Palestinian story no longer exists exclusively in Arabic. A new generation of Palestinian and Palestinian-descended writers and artists from both Latin and North America, Scandinavia, and Europe at large, as well as Israel-Palestine are bringing stories of their heritage and the Palestinian nation into a variety of languages such Spanish, Italian, English, Danish, and Hebrew—among so many other languages.

In this talk, Maurice Ebileeni explores how the Palestinian homeland is being imagined in multiple languages from a variety of positions both locally and globally and wishes to discuss unsettling questions about this current situation. He also invites us to look to the future to speculate about how a Palestinian nation might still house the notion of home for an increasingly diverse Palestinian population.

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Maurice Ebileeni is a member of faculty in the English department at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense and Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World, and his work on Palestinian literature and culture has appeared in Comparative Literature, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Interventions, and Hebrew-language Ot, among others.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:21:09 -0400 2022-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Maurice Ebileeni
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 26, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 29, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 3, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 3, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series (October 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96941 96941-21793601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Comparative Literature

“Race and Racism, Comparatively” is a series of three conversations highlighting the work of scholars both in and beyond U-M whose scholarship is contributing to much-needed conversations on the global dimension of race, racism, and their impacts. Through these events, we seek to help broaden the aperture through which the academic community considers these themes, encouraging an understanding of a dynamic and interconnected set of systems, practices and material effects.

September 20th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Virtual conversation with University of Pennsylvania scholar and president of the Middle East Studies Association, Eve Troutt Powell and Tennessee State University scholar, Keisha Brown. A cultural historian, Professor Troutt Powell’s scholarship has focused the history of the modern Middle East with a particular emphasis on slavery in the Nile Valley and in the former Ottoman Empire. Professor Brown’s work has focused on modern China and the negotiation of Sino-Blackness; her research interests broadly include ethnic and race studies, postcolonial theory and social and cultural history in East Asia.
Register here:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

October 4th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Roundtable featuring U-M faculty whose scholarship takes up the question of race and racism according to a transnational lens. The areas of focus represented among the participants include: the construction of blackness in the Francophone world; race, gender and Islam; the role of race and racialization as a tool of biopower in Mexico; and race and representation in US classrooms, literature and media. This event will be in-person at Kuenzel Room in the Michigan League, with a hybrid stream option.
Register for streaming here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

November 1st 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Pedagogy Workshop. The groups will function as both an opportunity to reflect on the provocations raised during previous two events, dissect our assumptions about race on the global stage, and exchange ideas and best practices for teaching the same. The aim is to create a constructive and productive dialogue which will ideally produce a series of “best practices'' for teaching race and racism from a comparative, global standpoint. This event will be in-person at the Vandenberg Room in the League, with a hybrid stream option on Zoom. Register for streaming here:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckduqtrjsuE9xTanfVcbmqesT3ENeGLkJo


Co-sponsored by: Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, NCID, CMENAS, Middle East Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, History, and LACS.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:16:17 -0400 2022-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Poster of the events.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96881 96881-21793528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Learn about 115+ programs in over 45 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from a few weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:40:54 -0400 2022-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Join us for the CGIS Study Abroad Fair on October 11, 2022
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Resistance, Resilience, and Remembrance: Flipping the Script about Jewish and Christian Women in Antiquity (October 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99393 99393-21797991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Lecture by Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld; Q&A with Sara Parks and Meredith J.C. Warren

How do we remember Jewish and Christian women in the ancient world? Are they merely passive, accepting what comes at them, or do they have agency in a patriarchal imperialist world? This talk explores several examples of Jewish and Christian women’s resistance—against patriarchy, imperialism, and even their own families—in order to demonstrate the diverse ways that women effected change in the world of ancient Judaism and Christianity.

This is a hybrid event. The event will take place at the Michigan League, Henderson Room. Please use the link provided to register for the Zoom option.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:52:01 -0400 2022-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
CMENAS Fall Colloquium. Higher Ed between Authoritarianism and Neoliberalism (October 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99229 99229-21797750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

2022 CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration

“Between Authoritarianism and Neoliberalism”

Muez Ali & Laura Mann, University College London (UK) & London School of Economics and Political Science (UK): *The Long-term Consequences of the Commercialization and Politicization of Higher Education on Employment and Politics in Sudan*

In the 1990s, Sudan underwent a massive expansion and commercialization of its higher education system, moving from having three to 27 universities over a ten-year period. Within each university, student numbers also rose, and shorter two-year diplomas were also introduced in an effort to raise revenue. Access to higher education expanded dramatically, but administrators and academics struggled to maintain educational quality and to protect the value of their qualifications in the labour market. Sudan’s experience reflects broader trends within the Middle East and Africa, in part driven by the World Bank’s ‘rate of return’ calculations, which de-prioritized public spending on higher education. But the policy also emerged from Sudan’s own political economy, with a new regime seeking to weaken sectarian control over elite reproduction through universities and state employment. This talk explores some of the long-term consequences of these changes for economic development and politics in Sudan, and situates the country’s experience within broader regional trends.

Saeid Golkar, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (USA): *Higher Education in Authoritarian Context: Iran as a case study*

This is a study of state and Universities relationship in modern Iran. Despite the constant suppression of students by Pahlavi monarchy, students were actively engaged in anti-regime activities and, in collaboration with other social groups, finally brought the regime down in 1979. However, the Islamic Republic has seen fewer regime-threatening protests from university students. Why did the Pahlavi monarchy fail while the Islamic Republic succeeded in controlling the universities? What are the differences between the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic's higher education policies?

Speaker Bios:
Muez Ali is a Doctoral Researcher at the UCL Energy Institute and Research Associate at LSE CPAID. His research interests and work span several cross-cutting fields, including public service provision, climate change, social policy and knowledge production in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and Sudan in particular.

Laura Mann is an assistant professor in the International Development Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an affiliate of the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, also at the LSE. Her research explores the role of knowledge and technology in processes of economic development and international divergence, with a particular focus on higher education policy and digitization. Her doctoral work focused on the expansion of higher education in Sudan but since then has worked on digitization and development in Sudan, Kenya and Rwanda.

Saeid Golkar is a UC Foundation Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is also a non-resident senior fellow on Middle East Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) and The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in the UK. He received his PhD in political science in 2008. Since then, he's held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and researched and taught at Northwestern Universit and served as a fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His research focuses on the international and comparative politics of authoritarian regimes, emphasizing the Middle East and North Africa. His book, *Captive Society: The Basij Mobilization and Social Control in Post-Revolutionary Iran* Columbia University Press, 2015, was awarded the Washington Institute silver medal.

Register to the virtual event: https://myumi.ch/P14M9

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Class / Instruction Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:13:57 -0400 2022-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Class / Instruction 2022 CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 27, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CMENAS Fall Colloquium. Higher Ed between the Global Economy and the 4th Industrial Revolution (October 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99234 99234-21797758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

2022 CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration

“Between the Global Economy and the 4th Industrial Revolution”

Shana Cohen, University of Cambridge (UK): *Why doesn't higher education lead to jobs in North Africa?*

This presentation will examine how governments in the region, like that in Morocco, have invested in higher education and the political and economic importance of this investment. While participation in higher education has increased, unemployment rates amongst graduates have remained relatively high compared to groups with lower education rates for decades. This has implications for intergenerational equality, social and political identity, and even public revenue based on taxation. These trends provoked the Arab Spring and continue to be critical for politics, despite the backsliding on democratic reform. The presentation explores these issues substantively and how they can be researched.

Magdalena Karolak, Zayed University (UAE): *The complexity of tertiary education reforms in the Gulf Cooperation Council: A case study of Bahrain *

This presentation explores, to begin with, the growth of tertiary education institutions in the context of the Gulf Council Cooperation (GCC) countries. The overview focuses on the expansion of the sector in light of the population growth, absorption of graduates into the labor market, economic diversification, and strategic planning deployed by the GCC governments. Added to this are the requirements related to the 4th Industrial Revolution and the role of education in preparing a versatile workforce. The analysis also stresses the differences in terms of business models, the variety of the educational offer, and the student body. Secondly, using the case study of Bahrain, the presentation illustrates the processes of standardization, regulation, and control over tertiary education institutions and the difficulties experienced in the past with regard to meeting the requirements. All in all, the overview presents the complexities of carrying out educational reforms in the GCC context.

Speaker Bios:

Shana Cohen is the director of TASC, an independent think tank based in Dublin that focuses on issues related to inequality and democracy in Ireland and the EU. She is also an affiliated lecturer with the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, and co-editor of the *Journal of North African Studies*. She has conducted research in Morocco for many years, examining the social consequences of economic policy and the political role of civil society. Her current interests include how to reduce long-term unemployment and underemployment in the MENA region and the economic and social impact of climate action and investment in climate-oriented industries in the region.

Magdalena Karolak is associate professor of humanities and social sciences at Zayed University, UAE. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics, MAs in political science and in Latin American studies, and a BA in French language. Prior to working at ZU, Professor Karolak held assistant professor positions in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. In 2014-15, she was an American Political Science Association MENA fellow. Her research interests include transformations of societies in the MENA region and comparative linguistics. Professor Karolak has published more than 50 journal articles and book chapters on the shifting gender relations, social media, culture and identity, and political system transformations in MENA countries. She is the author of three scholarly monographs.

Register to the virtual event: https://myumi.ch/29WE6

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Class / Instruction Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:14:18 -0400 2022-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Class / Instruction 2022 CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 31, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series (November 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96941 96941-21793602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

“Race and Racism, Comparatively” is a series of three conversations highlighting the work of scholars both in and beyond U-M whose scholarship is contributing to much-needed conversations on the global dimension of race, racism, and their impacts. Through these events, we seek to help broaden the aperture through which the academic community considers these themes, encouraging an understanding of a dynamic and interconnected set of systems, practices and material effects.

September 20th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Virtual conversation with University of Pennsylvania scholar and president of the Middle East Studies Association, Eve Troutt Powell and Tennessee State University scholar, Keisha Brown. A cultural historian, Professor Troutt Powell’s scholarship has focused the history of the modern Middle East with a particular emphasis on slavery in the Nile Valley and in the former Ottoman Empire. Professor Brown’s work has focused on modern China and the negotiation of Sino-Blackness; her research interests broadly include ethnic and race studies, postcolonial theory and social and cultural history in East Asia.
Register here:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

October 4th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Roundtable featuring U-M faculty whose scholarship takes up the question of race and racism according to a transnational lens. The areas of focus represented among the participants include: the construction of blackness in the Francophone world; race, gender and Islam; the role of race and racialization as a tool of biopower in Mexico; and race and representation in US classrooms, literature and media. This event will be in-person at Kuenzel Room in the Michigan League, with a hybrid stream option.
Register for streaming here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

November 1st 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Pedagogy Workshop. The groups will function as both an opportunity to reflect on the provocations raised during previous two events, dissect our assumptions about race on the global stage, and exchange ideas and best practices for teaching the same. The aim is to create a constructive and productive dialogue which will ideally produce a series of “best practices'' for teaching race and racism from a comparative, global standpoint. This event will be in-person at the Vandenberg Room in the League, with a hybrid stream option on Zoom. Register for streaming here:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckduqtrjsuE9xTanfVcbmqesT3ENeGLkJo


Co-sponsored by: Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, NCID, CMENAS, Middle East Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, History, and LACS.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:16:17 -0400 2022-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Poster of the events.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 3, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CSEAS Lecture Series. Beyond Center and Periphery: Locating Southeast Asia in the Muslim World (November 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97570 97570-21794762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This talk explores the relationship between religion and spatiality through a study of the emergence of transoceanic religious geography that links Southeast Asia and South Arabia. This geographic imaginary links two regions commonly regarded as “peripheral” in the study of Islam and Islamic history. Muslims from these so-called “peripheral” regions, however, have for long presented their respective homelands as spatial realizations of Islamic cosmology and as privileged sites for moral education and ethical becoming. Tracing how this transoceanic religious geography came about allows us to rethink established center-periphery models that have continued to shape our understanding of the history and geography of Islam. Instead of a Muslim world made up of unchanging centers and peripheries, the talk uncovers the existence of competing for religious geographies, shifting centers of Islam, and forms of devotional mobility with multiple directionalities. Understanding how a “peripheral” region like Southeast Asia becomes religiously central to people elsewhere (South Arabia and the Swahili coast of Africa, for example), in turn, helps us to think about comparable processes that have sustained the religious significance of other regions.

Ismail Fajrie Alatas is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the Department of History at New York University. His primary research interest is in Islam in the Indian Ocean world particularly, the historical and contemporary connections between Southeast Asia and South Arabia. Professor Alatas' work examines the intersections of religious authority, social formation, mobility, semiotics and communicative practice with a focus on Islamic Law, Sufism, and the Hadrami diaspora in Indonesia. He received his PhD in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan, his MA from National University of Singapore, and his BA from the University of Melbourne.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/qA48G

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:55:01 -0400 2022-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Assistant Professor, New York University
CMENAS Fall Colloquium. Higher Ed between Debate and Innovation (November 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99245 99245-21797769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

2022 CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration

“Higher Ed between Debate and Innovation”

Rahmi Oruç & Önder Kucukural, Ibn Haldun University (Turkey): *Adab in Dialogue: Developing Argumentative Virtues in a Divided World via the Munazara Engagement Model (MEM)*

In this talk, we introduce the ADAB project. The project takes its name and draws from the Ādāb al-Baḥth wa-l Munāẓara. Serving among the instrumental disciplines an aspiring scholar must master in their journey to knowledge and virtue, Munāẓara emerged as a synthesis of Aristotelian analytics and Muslim ethics at the end of the 13th century. ADAB aims to develop a new argumentative engagement model and implement it in contemporary university debates. Institutionalizing through tournaments and the attendant debate clubs, university debates are one key component of modern higher education. However, as we all witness in our contemporary societies, deep disagreements have hijacked the public space to the extent that we hesitate whether public deliberation and argumentation can provide any remedy. Nevertheless, considering the high levels of polarization that sometimes fuel violence, the dismal state of public debating should not discourage us from rethinking virtuous interaction and prospects of deliberative democracy. We believe ADAB is a humble start. We first provide a brief history. Then we make a case for Munāẓara’s applicability to contemporary problems as its attention to virtues and their manifestation in argumentative behavior is key to handling the growing frustration with public space or the lack thereof.

Mohd Nishat Faisal, Fauzia Jabeen, Marios Katsioloudes, Abu Dhabi University (UAE), American University of Cyprus (Cyprus), Qatar University (Qatar): *Entrepreneurial mindset and the role of universities as strategic drivers of entrepreneurship: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates*

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the factors that influence the mindset of youth in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in choosing entrepreneurship as their future employment. It also suggests the pathway to improve the role of the universities as strategic drivers in inducing an entrepreneurial mindset. An exhaustive literature review of extant research followed by an exploratory study was conducted. Furthermore, to understand factors influencing the role of universities, interpretive structural modeling methodology is applied to evolve a hierarchy-based relationship among the strategic factors. The results of empirical research suggest that young people in the UAE rank entrepreneurship as their first employment choice. However, most of them have not attended any formal entrepreneurship-related courses in school or in college. The study also suggests that individual and environmental factors influence the entrepreneurial mindset of both males and females in the UAE. The structural model developed in the study indicates that to give an impetus to the entrepreneurial mindset, the government must create a supporting environment with UAE universities playing the role of a catalyst. The results could provide insights for both entrepreneurship educators and policymakers and will boost their commitment to promote the entrepreneurial mindset within UAE society by enhancing and developing traits associated with entrepreneurial success. The results support recognition of the factors that induce educational programmes and economic incentives targeted at the development of sustainable entrepreneurial culture and ventures in the UAE.

Speaker Bios:
Rahmi Oruç is a lecturer at Comparative Literature, Ibn Haldun University. He recently defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “What do we do with arguments?: Situating Munāẓara in contemporary argumentation scholarship.” He introduces Munāẓara as a contemporary argumentation theory that may complement and even serve as an alternative to existing theories. His interests include comparative literature, rhetoric, literary theory, digital humanities, and narratology. His overall research orientation is the reassessment of madrasa sciences for contemporary scholarship. E-mail: rahmioruc@ihu.edu.tr

Önder Kucukural is an assistant professor at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University. He received his PhD in Sabanci University, Political Science Program. He was a visiting researcher at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim- Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 2011/12. He is one of the co authors of books Yaşlılar ve Yaşlı Yakınları Açısından Yaşam Biçimi Tercihleri, [Lifestyle choices of the elderly from the elderly’s perspective and that of their relatives - 2004] Türkiye’de Dindarlık [Religiosity in Turkey - 2012], and “Türkiye’de spiritüel arayışlar” [Spiritual Seeking in Turkey - 2021]. He is the director of Munazara and Argumentation Ethics Research Center. Currently he is the primary investigator of two research projects "Non-Religious Beliefs and Practices in Turkey" and "Adab in Dialogue: Developing Argumentative Virtues in a Divided World". His research interests include argumentation and reasoning, religiosity, discourse analysis, ecology and gender studies. He offers graduate level courses at Alliance of Civilisations Institute.

Mohd. Nishat Faisal is a professor of supply chain management at the Department of Management & Marketing, College of Business & Economics, Qatar University, Qatar. He obtained his PhD as the first National Doctoral Fellow in Management from IIT Delhi, India. His name has appeared in the “List of Top 2% Researchers/Scientists of the World” in a Stanford study. His papers on supply chain risk management are among the most highly cited papers in this area. He is the recipient of Emerald’s Highly Commended Award 2008, Winner of Outstanding Paper 2018 and CBE, QU-Excellence in Research Award, 2011-2012.

Fauzia Jabeen is a professor of management in the College of Business at Abu Dhabi University and a visiting professor at Burgundy School of Business, Dijon, France and University of Agder, Norway. In addition, she serves as chapter advisor for the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society at Abu Dhabi University. A prolific writer, Jabeen has published work on behavior, gender studies, innovation, sustainability, knowledge, and performance in leading journals, including the International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Business Research, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Journal of Cleaner Production, Business Strategy and the Environment. Jabeen has delivered training to leading Middle East companies, including Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi Municipality, Mubadala, and Saudi Telecom Company (STC). She has received literary awards and research grants from various UAE and global funding agencies, such as Al Hosn Gas and the Fulbright Scholarship Program, USA. She was honored to receive the Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter Advisor of the Year Global Award in 2018 and 2020, the ADU Distinguished Faculty Award in 2020, the 'Outstanding Paper Award' and 'Highly Commended Paper' in 2018 and 2019 from the Emerald Literati Awards, and the Abu Dhabi University Research Fellow Award in 2018.

Marios Katsioloudes holds a PhD in strategy and international business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the founding dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, and professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the American University of Cyprus, and a former professor of management at Qatar University, where he taught strategic management, international business, and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate, MBA and Doctoral levels. He is a visiting professor to the University of Cyprus, Galen University in Belize, Linkoping University in Sweden, EDHEC Business School in France, Mediterranean School of Business in Tunisia, Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain, Tulane University in the USA and The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece. He has worked for the Cyprus Development Bank and the World Bank. He has authored/co-authored six books, published over 42 articles and 72 conference proceedings on strategic management, international business and small business management/entrepreneurship. The second edition of his strategic management book was published in 2017 by Routledge. He has also served and still serving as a member/chair of review panels for business programs in Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia

Register to the virtual event: https://myumi.ch/G1VwM

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Class / Instruction Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:23:30 -0400 2022-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Class / Instruction CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
MEMS Lecture. A Custody Dispute between a Habashi Slave and her Jewish Owner; Issues of Gender and Ethnic/Racial Identity in Medieval Egypt (November 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98092 98092-21795579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The chronicler of the late Mamluk period and early Ottoman occupation of Egypt, Ibn Iyas, reported a child custody dispute between an Ethiopian female slave (Ḥabashiyya) and her Jewish owner, a senior official of the Mint, that occurred in 928H/1522CE. This lecture will address the slave’s audacious appeal before the chief Maliki Qadi of Cairo for personal manumission on the basis of her own conversion to Islam, and invalidation of any claim over her infant daughter by the Jewish father, who sought to maintain his licit and communal rights as a parent and as a Jew. The case is considered in light of opinions by legal (Sharīʿa) scholars about the upbringing of children born to parents of differing religions. The lecture also places this dispute in the larger context of racial identity, and controversies over preferences to ‘blackness’ in writings contemporary to the Mamluk period.

Carl F. Petry: Is the Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Middle East Studies emeritus, Department of History, Northwestern University. His research focuses on pre-modern Egypt, with emphasis on political economy. He has published: The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton, 1982); Twilight of Majesty: the Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans al-Ashraf Qaytbay and Qansuh al-Ghawri in Egypt (U. Washington, 1993); Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt’s Waning as a Great Power (S.U.N.Y., 1994); The Criminal Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society: Narratives from Cairo under the Mamluks (Middle East Documentation Center, U. Chicago, 2012); The Mamluk Sultanate—A History (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He has edited and contributed to The Cambridge History of Egypt, vol. 1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517 C.E. (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Teaching interests range from gender relations in the Islamic Middle Ages to Revolutionary Egypt under Nasser and Sadat.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Oct 2022 10:16:56 -0400 2022-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Carl Petry
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CMENAS Fall Colloquium. Higher Ed between Nationalism and Globalization (November 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99247 99247-21797771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

2022 CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration

“Higher Ed between Nationalism and Globalization”


Natalie Koch, Heidelberg University (Germany): *Nationalism and the geopolitics of higher education in the Arabian Peninsula*

State-sponsored education is one of the most important channels for people to develop a sense of national attachment. Scholars stress the role of primary and secondary school, but they give less attention to how nationalism is produced in institutions of higher education. In part, this is because there has been a surge in efforts to internationalize higher education across the world. Yet at the same time that universities strive to become more international, the same efforts reinforce national ideals of superiority and excellence on the world stage. Often designed to “domesticate” elite education from abroad in the name of promoting the nation, these projects are supported by political leaders who see higher education as a key vector in advancing geopolitical visions. Considering several examples of this dynamic from the Arabian Peninsula, this talk examines the interplay between nationalism and globalization in the geopolitics of contemporary higher education.

Alex Shams, University of Chicago (USA): *If Not For the Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Social Change in Iranian Higher Education since 1979*

Since Iran’s 1979 Revolution, women’s access to higher education has increased dramatically. In contrast to predictions that the Islamization of Iranian politics would lead to the disappearance of women from the public sphere, today women far outnumber men at universities across the country, and they play an active role in all parts of Iranian society. In this presentation, I explore the complex evolution of gender politics in Iran during and since the revolution, focusing on how the 1979 uprising, the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War that followed, and the decades of "normalization" since have reshaped Iranian society and women’s roles in it. I focus on how the implementation of a system of modernized religious governance under the Islamic Republic reorganized debates around gender relations and women’s access to education, drawing on an ethnographic perspective to stress the importance of lived experience in scholarly research in the contemporary Middle East.


Speaker Bio:
Natalie Koch is a professor of human geography at Heidelberg University. She is a political geographer who works on geopolitics, authoritarianism, and state power in hydrocarbon-rich countries, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula. She is the editor of the new book, *Spatializing Authoritarianism* (Syracuse University Press 2022), and her second monograph, *Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia* (Verso 2023), examines the role of the University of Arizona in U.S. empire-building domestically and overseas – focusing on how the arid lands “expertise” essential to establishing settler control of the desert Southwest was built through ties with the Arabian Peninsula since the 1800s. Extending her research on the politics of U.S. higher education abroad, her next project will focus on the wider history of U.S. science diplomacy in the Gulf region.

Alex Shams is a PhD student of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research explores the politics of sacred space and religious governance in the Middle East. He was based for the last three years in Tehran, from where he conducted fieldwork research in Iran and Iraq. He is an editor-in-chief of Ajam Media Collective (ajammc.com), an online journal dedicated to culture, society, and politics in Iran, Central Asia, and the broader region. He previously worked as a journalist based in Bethlehem, Palestine.

Register to the virtual event: https://myumi.ch/DJV94

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Class / Instruction Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:48:34 -0400 2022-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Class / Instruction CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-14T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-17T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
4th Biennial U-M International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics (November 19, 2022 7:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99423 99423-21798188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 19, 2022 7:45am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Program Schedule

SATURDAY, November 19, 2022
7:45-8:15 Registration: Michigan League, 3rd Floor

8:15-8:30 Welcome–Opening Remarks: Koessler Hall
Mohammad Alhawary, Conference Organizer

8:30-10:30 PANEL 1: L2 PEDAGOGY
Chair: Said Hannouchi, University of Michigan

8:30-9:00: Implementing Inclusive Pedagogy in Language Curricula: Innovations in Remote
Arabic Teaching
Sadam Issa, Michigan State University
Ayman Mohamed, Michigan State University

9:00-9:30 Dialects and the Teaching of Standard Arabic in Morocco: Issues and
Implications
Dris Soulaimani, San Diego State University
Oualid Maghfour, Regional Center for Education and Training, Morocco

9:30-10:00 Oral Corrective Feedback Preferences: Voices from the Arabic Language
Classroom
Hezi Brosh, United States Naval Academy

10:00-10:30: Toward Strategy Based Arabic Teaching
Hazem Osman, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

10:30-10:45: Coffee/Tea Break

10:45-12:15 PANEL 2: SOCIOLINGUISTICS 1
Chair: Abdulkafi Albirini, Utah State University

10:45-11:15 “I can give up English for a whole Day and Rely on Arabic Alone”: A scalar
Approach to Linguistic (Non)discreteness
Wafa S. Abdulla Al-Alawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:15-11:45 Representations of Arabic in Spanish Media Discourse
Farah Ali, DePauw University

11:45-12:15 The Functions of Code-switching in the Interaction of the Cartoon Characters
in Dora the Explorer
Majedah Abdullah Alaiyed, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

12:15-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 PANEL 3: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 1
Chair: Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University

2:00-2:30 Learning Outcomes of the Simultaneous Exposure to two Arabic Varieties by
English L2 Learners of Arabic at Different Stages of their L2 Development
Mohammed Salem Alshehri, University of Michigan

2:30-3:00 A Corpus-based Study of ASL Learners’ Errors in Written and Spoken Production
Ayman Ahmad Alghamdi, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

3:00-3:30 Testing the Validity and Reliability of a Multiple-choice Test (MCT) for
Interlanguage Pragmatics: L2 Arabic Learners as a Case Study
Faisal Alharbi, Ball State University
Abdelaadim Bidaoui, Ball State University

3:30-4:30 KEYNOTE
The Acquisition, Representation, and Processing of Arabic Consonants by English
Speakers
Rachel Hayes-Harb, University of Utah

5:30-9:30 DINNER: Henderson Hall


SUNDAY, November 20, 2022

8:00-10:00 PANEL 4: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 2
Chair: Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Michigan

8:00-8:30 The Role of L1 on the L2 Development and Processing of Arabic Grammatical
Gender
Kholoud A. Al-Thubaiti, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

8:30-9:00 Language Maintenance Through Family Language Investigation: A Comparative
Study of Four Multilingual Families in Manchester
Roumeissa Belbordj, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

9:00-9:30 Heritage Learners of Arabic: Orientations, Perceptions and Attitudes Towards
Learning a Second Arabic Dialect
Kamilia Rahmouni, Virginia Commonwealth University
Elsayed Issa, University of Arizona

9:30-10:00 The Robustness of the L1 Transfer Hypothesis
Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Michigan

10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE
The Acquisition of Arabic as a Heritage Language: Issues, Opportunities, and
Challenges
Abdulkafi Albirini, Utah State University

11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea Break

11:15-12:45 PANEL 5: LANGUAGE CHANGE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
Chair: Dris Soulaimani, San Diego State University

11:15-11:45 Grammaticalization or Degrammaticalization: The Case of bita:ʕ in Egyptian
Arabic
Asmaa Taha, The University of Houston

11:45-12:15 Hard of Hearing Written Language, L1 Influence, and Implications for
Pidgin/Creole Genesis
Saeed Ali Al Alaslaa, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

12:15-12:45 The Role of the Khalilian Theory on the Teachability of Languages
Labidi Bouabdallah, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, UAE

12:45-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 PANEL 6: SOCIOLINGUISTICS 2
Chair: Saeed Ali Al Alaslaa, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

2:00-2:30 The Use of Default Masculine Gender in Egyptian Job Advertisements
Farida Soliman, Queen Mary University of London, UK

2:30-3:00 Translanguaging Practices and Social Identity of Heritage Learners in an Online
Arabic Classroom
Amr Rabie-Ahmed, Michigan State University

3:00-3:30 Time, Language, Knowledge, and Knowledge Management in the Era of Big Data
Ali Abdulaziz Aljubailan, Indiana University at Bloomington
Damir Cavar, Indiana University at Bloomington

3:00-3:15 Coffee/Tea Break

3:15-4:15 KEYNOTE
Reliving Personal Experiences: Analyzing Heritage Speakers’ Enregisterment of
Life Events in Two Languages
Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:12:22 -0400 2022-11-19T07:45:00-05:00 2022-11-19T21:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Conference / Symposium 4th Biennial U-M International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics
4th Biennial U-M International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics (November 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99423 99423-21798189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 20, 2022 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Program Schedule

SATURDAY, November 19, 2022
7:45-8:15 Registration: Michigan League, 3rd Floor

8:15-8:30 Welcome–Opening Remarks: Koessler Hall
Mohammad Alhawary, Conference Organizer

8:30-10:30 PANEL 1: L2 PEDAGOGY
Chair: Said Hannouchi, University of Michigan

8:30-9:00: Implementing Inclusive Pedagogy in Language Curricula: Innovations in Remote
Arabic Teaching
Sadam Issa, Michigan State University
Ayman Mohamed, Michigan State University

9:00-9:30 Dialects and the Teaching of Standard Arabic in Morocco: Issues and
Implications
Dris Soulaimani, San Diego State University
Oualid Maghfour, Regional Center for Education and Training, Morocco

9:30-10:00 Oral Corrective Feedback Preferences: Voices from the Arabic Language
Classroom
Hezi Brosh, United States Naval Academy

10:00-10:30: Toward Strategy Based Arabic Teaching
Hazem Osman, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

10:30-10:45: Coffee/Tea Break

10:45-12:15 PANEL 2: SOCIOLINGUISTICS 1
Chair: Abdulkafi Albirini, Utah State University

10:45-11:15 “I can give up English for a whole Day and Rely on Arabic Alone”: A scalar
Approach to Linguistic (Non)discreteness
Wafa S. Abdulla Al-Alawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:15-11:45 Representations of Arabic in Spanish Media Discourse
Farah Ali, DePauw University

11:45-12:15 The Functions of Code-switching in the Interaction of the Cartoon Characters
in Dora the Explorer
Majedah Abdullah Alaiyed, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

12:15-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 PANEL 3: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 1
Chair: Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University

2:00-2:30 Learning Outcomes of the Simultaneous Exposure to two Arabic Varieties by
English L2 Learners of Arabic at Different Stages of their L2 Development
Mohammed Salem Alshehri, University of Michigan

2:30-3:00 A Corpus-based Study of ASL Learners’ Errors in Written and Spoken Production
Ayman Ahmad Alghamdi, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

3:00-3:30 Testing the Validity and Reliability of a Multiple-choice Test (MCT) for
Interlanguage Pragmatics: L2 Arabic Learners as a Case Study
Faisal Alharbi, Ball State University
Abdelaadim Bidaoui, Ball State University

3:30-4:30 KEYNOTE
The Acquisition, Representation, and Processing of Arabic Consonants by English
Speakers
Rachel Hayes-Harb, University of Utah

5:30-9:30 DINNER: Henderson Hall


SUNDAY, November 20, 2022

8:00-10:00 PANEL 4: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 2
Chair: Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Michigan

8:00-8:30 The Role of L1 on the L2 Development and Processing of Arabic Grammatical
Gender
Kholoud A. Al-Thubaiti, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

8:30-9:00 Language Maintenance Through Family Language Investigation: A Comparative
Study of Four Multilingual Families in Manchester
Roumeissa Belbordj, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

9:00-9:30 Heritage Learners of Arabic: Orientations, Perceptions and Attitudes Towards
Learning a Second Arabic Dialect
Kamilia Rahmouni, Virginia Commonwealth University
Elsayed Issa, University of Arizona

9:30-10:00 The Robustness of the L1 Transfer Hypothesis
Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Michigan

10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE
The Acquisition of Arabic as a Heritage Language: Issues, Opportunities, and
Challenges
Abdulkafi Albirini, Utah State University

11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea Break

11:15-12:45 PANEL 5: LANGUAGE CHANGE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
Chair: Dris Soulaimani, San Diego State University

11:15-11:45 Grammaticalization or Degrammaticalization: The Case of bita:ʕ in Egyptian
Arabic
Asmaa Taha, The University of Houston

11:45-12:15 Hard of Hearing Written Language, L1 Influence, and Implications for
Pidgin/Creole Genesis
Saeed Ali Al Alaslaa, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

12:15-12:45 The Role of the Khalilian Theory on the Teachability of Languages
Labidi Bouabdallah, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, UAE

12:45-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 PANEL 6: SOCIOLINGUISTICS 2
Chair: Saeed Ali Al Alaslaa, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

2:00-2:30 The Use of Default Masculine Gender in Egyptian Job Advertisements
Farida Soliman, Queen Mary University of London, UK

2:30-3:00 Translanguaging Practices and Social Identity of Heritage Learners in an Online
Arabic Classroom
Amr Rabie-Ahmed, Michigan State University

3:00-3:30 Time, Language, Knowledge, and Knowledge Management in the Era of Big Data
Ali Abdulaziz Aljubailan, Indiana University at Bloomington
Damir Cavar, Indiana University at Bloomington

3:00-3:15 Coffee/Tea Break

3:15-4:15 KEYNOTE
Reliving Personal Experiences: Analyzing Heritage Speakers’ Enregisterment of
Life Events in Two Languages
Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:12:22 -0400 2022-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-20T16:15:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Conference / Symposium 4th Biennial U-M International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-21T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CMENAS Fall Colloquium. Higher Ed between Tradition and Inclusion (November 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99249 99249-21797773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

2022 CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration

“Higher Ed between Tradition and Inclusion”

Tova Hartman, Ono Academic College (Israel): *Can a Liberal Democracy tolerate gender segregated higher education: Haredim in Israeli Higher Education*

Over the past two decades a number of Israeli institutions of higher education have opened gender-segregated programs for the ultra-Orthodox, or haredim. The growth of these programs has generated an intense debate in Israel, reflected throughout Israeli media and in several appeals to Israel's Supreme Court. The issues raised concerning gender-segregated higher education reflect an overarching inquiry that is of great interest to multicultural theoreticians: the relationship of liberal democracies to their illiberal minorities. Multicultural theoreticians agree that healthy democracies must tolerate some illiberal practices while acknowledging that not every illiberal practice can be tolerated. In the case at hand, the essay addresses the question: can a liberal democracy tolerate gender-segregated higher education? Using work by Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, John Inazu, and others, the essay reviews the arguments for and against gender segregation in higher education for Israeli haredim. The essay explores the limits of toleration of illiberal cultures within liberal democratic societies and finds crucial the right to exit such a culture—a right whose viability is dependent upon adequate education. The essay concludes by discussing the multiculturalism organization development model and what has been termed the manyness and messiness of multiculturalism.

Speaker Bios:

Tova Hartman is the dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ono Academic College, the largest private college in Israel. Her last book, Are You Not a Man of God?: Devotion, Betrayal, and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition (Oxford), brought feminist theory and relational psychology to bear on Jewish theology and culture. Her prior book, Feminism Encounters Jewish Tradition: Resistance and Accommodation (Brandeis), won a National Jewish Book Award. Her first book, Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions (Harvard), based on her doctoral thesis under Carol Gilligan, was a comparative study of the experiences of traditional Catholic and Jewish women as mothers and as agents of socialization in their communities and cultures. She has just completed a book on male breakup trauma. She is the co-founder of Shira Hadasha, a feminist traditional synagogue in Jerusalem.

Register to the virtual event: https://myumi.ch/84V3k


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Class / Instruction Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:49:42 -0400 2022-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Class / Instruction CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 28, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 28, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (December 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CMENAS Fall Colloquium. Higher Ed between Soft Power and Social Forces (December 5, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99250 99250-21797774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

2022 CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration

“Higher Ed between Soft Power and Social Forces”

Neema Noori & Pia-Kristina Anderson: *Exporting the American Model of Education to the Gulf*

In the current context of globalization, social scientists have examined the mechanisms by which organizational practices are transferred when transnational corporations establish subsidiaries in other countries. Comparatively little work, however, has been done on the challenges of transplanting, from one cultural and political context to another, an institution of higher education or a particular model for how higher education should be practiced. Our talk will focus on the political, economic, and cultural challenges of exporting the “American model of education” to the Arab States of the Gulf.

Neha Vora: *Teach for Arabia: American universities, liberalism, and the transnational Gulf*

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American universities, represents the Qatari government's multibillion-dollar investment over the last two decades in growing a local knowledge-based economy. Though leaders have eagerly welcomed these institutions, not all citizens embrace the US universities in their midst. Some critics see them as emblematic of a turn away from traditional values toward Westernization. Qatari students who attend these schools often feel stereotyped and segregated within their spaces. Neha Vora considers how American branch campuses influence notions of identity and citizenship among both citizen and non-citizen residents and contribute to national imaginings of the future and a transnational Qatar. Looking beyond the branch campus, she also confronts mythologies of liberal and illiberal peoples, places, and ideologies that have developed around these universities. Supporters and detractors alike of branch campuses have long ignored the imperial histories of American universities and the exclusions and inequalities that continue to animate daily academic life. From the vantage point of Qatar, Teach for Arabia challenges the assumed mantle of liberalism in Western institutions and illuminates how people can contribute to decolonized university life and knowledge production.

Speaker Bios:

Neha Vora is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology at Lafayette College. Her research and teaching interests include diasporas and migration, citizenship, higher education, gender, liberalism, political economy, and human-nonhuman encounters in the Arabian Peninsula region and in the United States. She is the author of *Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora* (Duke University Press, 2013) and *Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar* (Stanford University Press, 2018). She has also published a co-authored book with Ahmed Kanna and Amelie Le Renard, *Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula* (Cornell University Press, 2020).

Pia-Kristina Anderson has taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching areas include culture contact, anthropological history, archaeology, cultural geography and the formation of identity. Anderson has extensive fieldwork experience both in the Middle East and in the Pacific Islands, among other regions.

Neema Noori is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology at the University of West Georgia. He received his PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 2006. After completing his dissertation, Noori taught for three years in the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He joined the Department of Sociology at the University of West Georgia in 2008. Noori's areas of interest include political sociology, global higher education governance, knowledge networks, and state formation. To date, his research has followed two trajectories. The first builds on his dissertation and is focused primarily on NGO and government development policy in Post-Soviet Central Asia. The second trajectory expands his regional specialization to include the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Partly in response to witnessing the proliferation of American-style universities in the Middle East, he has written several articles on the diffusion of the American model of higher education throughout the region.

Register to the virtual event: https://myumi.ch/AwV8e

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Class / Instruction Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:14:56 -0400 2022-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Class / Instruction CMENAS Fall Colloquium: Higher Education & Reformation across the MENA: A Geopolitical Exploration
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (December 5, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (December 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Absinthe 28 Publication Launch and Reading (December 9, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101897 101897-21802813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Absinthe: World Literature in Translation is proud to announce the upcoming release of its 28th issue, Orphaned of Light: Translating Arab and Arabophone Migration (Fall 2022).

The issue is co-sponsored by the U-M Department of Middle East Studies and will be officially released at the University of Michigan on December 9, 2022 at an event featuring readings by contributors.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:22:52 -0500 2022-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Presentation Absinthe 28 cover
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 5, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 5, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-05T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
WCED Lecture. Authoritarian Populism in Everyday Life: Contemporary Turkey (January 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101486 101486-21801434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

The last two decades mark a continuous growth of authoritarian populism globally. What effects does authoritarian populism have on daily interactions? How do historically vulnerable social groups experience and respond to these effects? This presentation will explain how people negotiate the boundary-shifting effects of authoritarian populism in daily life and the mechanisms of intensifying civilian disciplinary actions in step with institutionalized authoritarian populism and formal state repression, focusing on Turkey.

Basak Gemici is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2022-24. She is a political sociologist whose research focuses on regime change, authoritarian populism, and conflict in everyday life using feminist research practice. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022, where she also completed doctoral certificates in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Cultural Studies. Basak is currently working on her book project, “Authoritarian Populism and Conflict in Daily Life,” based on field research in Turkey between 2017 and 2019. Drawing on ethnographic data from urban bus rides and interviews, she investigates the gendered, ethno-racial, and spatial organization of authoritarian populism in everyday life.

Basak is also a research affiliate at the Gender Inequality Research Lab (GIRL), University of Pittsburgh, and the Collaboratory Against Hate Research and Action Center, a co-initiative of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at http://myumi.ch/P1eGq

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:35:51 -0500 2023-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Basak Gemici
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 19, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 26, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-30T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Trauma and Hope: Update from Gaza (February 1, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103465 103465-21807236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei, MD, MSc, psychiatrist and Director General of the Gaza Community Health Programme (GCMHP) in the Gaza Strip will give an account and update of ongoing violence and conditions affecting mental health in Gaza, and of the programs and services the GCMHP offers to address individuals and collective mental health of the population there.

From 6:00 - 7:00 pm, students, student groups, and others attending the event are invited to meet with the speaker more informally for conversation after the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:54:51 -0500 2023-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 2023-02-01T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 2, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Atlanta Global Studies Center Lecture. Reporting from the Middle East: Notes from the Field (February 8, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103352 103352-21807078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

There are many intersections between journalism, academia, and the U.S. foreign and defense policy worlds. This talk explores some of these intersections from the perspective on Dr. Marwa Maziad, an Egyptian-American journalist, scholar, and political commentator. The talk will address how the media shapes perceptions of the Middle East and offers observations from coverage in Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, and Qatar.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/zwVd2

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Presentation Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:21:38 -0500 2023-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 2023-02-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Presentation Marwa Maziad, an Egyptian-American journalist, scholar, and political commentator
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-13T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (February 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-02-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (February 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 9, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 10, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 11, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 2023-03-11T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 12, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-12T00:00:00-05:00 2023-03-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 13, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-13T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Egyptian Herakles and Syrian Aphrodite? Phoenician art and cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103995 103995-21808197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Who is “Egyptian Herakles” and why did Greeks use this title when referring to the Phoenician god Melqart? Why did the ancient Greek historian Herodotos seek the origins of Heracles and Aphrodite on the Levantine coast? In this talk I juxtapose these narratives of divine origins against the backdrop or artistic developments in early Greece, when art in the Aegean and elsewhere in the Mediterranean emulated Levantine and in particular Phoenician models. I will propose that Phoenician modes of representation (including Egyptian and Canaanite inflections) affected perceptions of cultural affiliations and origins. More generally I will address the issue of representation of the Phoenicians in Greek and biblical sources, positively or negatively, as agents of cultural change.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Mar 2023 07:28:03 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 14, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 15, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 16, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-20T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 31, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
EIHS Research Workshop: Hidden Choices and Silent Labor: Making Digital Manuscripts and Archives (April 14, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106528 106528-21814406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

RSVP for access to pre-circulated papers (available April 1): https://forms.gle/yuo7BgkukcrQvYta6

This workshop initiates a conversation across geographies and temporalities around the concealed labor of scribes, librarians, bureaucrats, and scholars who make codices and curate archives to think about process and form. To focus on the labor involved in textual creations as we collect, select, copy, and create digital books and archives, we have invited two scholars, Marina Rustow (Princeton University) and Bridget Whearty (Binghamton University), to present their work on the hidden hands and invisible choices that go into the long durée of producing books and archives.
Presenters: 

Marina Rustow is a social historian of the medieval Middle East who works on the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 folio pages and fragments preserved in an Egyptian synagogue. Her The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cario Synagogue draws on the Princeton Geniza Project to think about the making of archives and codices.

Bridget Whearty specializes in medieval English literature, digitization, and medieval texts. Her Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor highlights the hidden and erased labor behind digitalizing medieval manuscripts to explore modern labor and the long history of book production.

Discussants:

Catherine Brown (Associate Professor, Arts and Ideas in the Humanities, University of Michigan)

Helmut Puff (Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages, University of Michigan)

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:01:48 -0400 2023-04-14T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Ethical Cosmology in Islamic Economic Thought (April 24, 2023 2:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107489 107489-21816099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 24, 2023 2:15pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Based on his two recent books, *Ethical Teachings of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali *and *The Making of Islamic Economic Thought*, in this presentation, Sami Al-Daghistani analyzes the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, legal, and philosophical ideas. While initially conceived as a “third-way economic system,” the progenitors of modern Islamic economics have often been structurally and epistemically dependent on key conceptualizations in conventional economics and its worldview. Concomitantly, the pre-modern scholarship nurtured complex attitudes toward economic life associated with the ethical self in that various legal scholars, theologians, and Sufis addressed earning a living and other economic postulates in the context of Sharī‘a law. He argues that classical Muslim scholars maintained a polyvalent understanding of economic thought as a human science based on virtuous traits of character and self-examination, embedded in a particular cosmology of human relationality, metaphysical intelligibility, and economic subjectivity.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:36:14 -0400 2023-04-24T14:15:00-04:00 2023-04-24T15:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Ethical Cosmology in Islamic Economic Thought
International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception (April 28, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104749 104749-21810073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 28, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Graduation ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students affiliated with: International and Regional Studies, African Studies Center, Center for European Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

2:30 PM: Check-In
3:00 PM: Ceremony
4:00 PM: Reception with light refreshments

To all 2022-2023 MIRS & Center Graduates: Please confirm your attendance and RSVP at https://myumi.ch/n77rk.

For more details, visit https://ii.umich.edu/ii/graduation.
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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please ii.graduation@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Cosponsors: Masters in International and Regional Studies, African Studies Center, Center for European Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:15:31 -0500 2023-04-28T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Ceremony / Service International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception
Star Lore from Babylonia to Brahe (May 12, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107882 107882-21818339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 12, 2023 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Classical Studies

People have looked up to the night sky at the stars for timekeeping and navigation for thousands of years. Join us for a series of lectures by world-renowned scholars discussing the star lore of ancient and early modern cultures.

Friday, May 12, 2023
9:30 am - Babylonian Astronomy, Chair: Joachim Quack
Presentations by: John Steele (Brown University) and Mathieu Ossendrijver (Freie Universität Berlin
11:30 am - Greek Astronomy, Chair: James Evans
Presentations by: Gonzalo Recio (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires) and Francesca Schironi (University of Michigan)
2:30 pm - Greek Astronomy, Chair: Marina Escolano-Poveda
Presentations by: Alexander Jones (ISAW, New York University) and Stamatina Mastorakou (MPIWG, Berlin)

Saturday, May 13, 2023
10:00 am - Chinese Astronomy, Chair: Gonzalo Recio
Presentation by: Marc Chapuis (Brown University)
10:45 am - Egyptian Astronomy, Chair: John Steele
Presentations by: Joachim Quack (Universität Heidelberg) and Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Liverpool)
1:45 pm - Islamic Astronomy, Chair: Mathieu Ossendrijver
Presentations by: Sonja Brentjes (MPIWG, Berlin) and Rana Brentjes (MPIWG, Berlin)
3:45 pm - Early Modern Astronomy, Chair: Alexander Jones
Presentations by: James Evans (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA) and Christián Carman (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires)

This is a hybrid event, and some presentations will be delivered via Zoom.
Join us on Zoom if you can't attend in person:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96425915807
Webinar ID: 964 2591 5807
International numbers available: https://umich.zoom.u/u/ad6M4Z75am

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 May 2023 15:08:58 -0400 2023-05-12T09:00:00-04:00 2023-05-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion Star Lore Conference from Babylonia to Brahe
Star Lore from Babylonia to Brahe (May 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107882 107882-21818340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Classical Studies

People have looked up to the night sky at the stars for timekeeping and navigation for thousands of years. Join us for a series of lectures by world-renowned scholars discussing the star lore of ancient and early modern cultures.

Friday, May 12, 2023
9:30 am - Babylonian Astronomy, Chair: Joachim Quack
Presentations by: John Steele (Brown University) and Mathieu Ossendrijver (Freie Universität Berlin
11:30 am - Greek Astronomy, Chair: James Evans
Presentations by: Gonzalo Recio (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires) and Francesca Schironi (University of Michigan)
2:30 pm - Greek Astronomy, Chair: Marina Escolano-Poveda
Presentations by: Alexander Jones (ISAW, New York University) and Stamatina Mastorakou (MPIWG, Berlin)

Saturday, May 13, 2023
10:00 am - Chinese Astronomy, Chair: Gonzalo Recio
Presentation by: Marc Chapuis (Brown University)
10:45 am - Egyptian Astronomy, Chair: John Steele
Presentations by: Joachim Quack (Universität Heidelberg) and Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Liverpool)
1:45 pm - Islamic Astronomy, Chair: Mathieu Ossendrijver
Presentations by: Sonja Brentjes (MPIWG, Berlin) and Rana Brentjes (MPIWG, Berlin)
3:45 pm - Early Modern Astronomy, Chair: Alexander Jones
Presentations by: James Evans (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA) and Christián Carman (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires)

This is a hybrid event, and some presentations will be delivered via Zoom.
Join us on Zoom if you can't attend in person:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96425915807
Webinar ID: 964 2591 5807
International numbers available: https://umich.zoom.u/u/ad6M4Z75am

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 May 2023 15:08:58 -0400 2023-05-13T10:00:00-04:00 2023-05-13T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion Star Lore Conference from Babylonia to Brahe
Healthcare workers mental health in disaster settings: lessons from Beirut and Ukraine (May 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108029 108029-21818858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

This presentation is the first of 2023 UMSN Coffee and Conversation Series following the UMSN Global Health Summer Institute. Follow the registration link below to see all sessions.

Dr. Maya Bizri is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine and a global mental health consultant. She also holds an MPH from Tufts. After starting her clinical career in Beirut in 2019, a time where the country was undergoing political, economic and COVID-19 challenges, and having started the first psycho oncology program mid-pandemic and Beirut blast, her interests shifted to global mental health. More particularly, Dr Bizri is interested in addressing the mental health of healthcare workers in disaster, conflict and low-resource settings. Most recently, she was on a medical mission to Ukraine with MedGlobal to pilot a training in trauma-informed care for healthcare workers. Clinically, Dr Bizri's interests lie in delirium management, psychiatry for the medically ill, psycho-oncology and transplant psychiatry.


Register on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/2tsv3va9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 May 2023 11:44:37 -0400 2023-05-23T08:00:00-04:00 2023-05-23T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Livestream / Virtual Dr. Maya Bizri conversation series flier