A lecture by Dr. Lee Clare, a Research Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaelogy at DAI Instanbul on the oldest known temple in the world! Göbekli Tepe can be found in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Göbekli Tepe is dated between c. 9500 and 8000 BCE.
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CSAMES Lectures
Learn about the history of Turkish folk music and Anatolian wind instruments from past to present! Click here to watch the recording.
Learn how to speak Turkish and make new friends! Click here to watch the recording.
This lecture seeks to trace the drafting history of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a form of racism with an emphasis on how the text and process shaped a racial theory of Zionist settler-colonization. Click here...
In this talk, a VAR methodology is run on monthly data from 2000 to 2017 in order to investigate the role of the real exchange rate on trade flows of three oil-importing countries in the MENA region, especially during the tremendous and transitional post-Arab Spring period. Click...- In this talk, Prof. Newman (Dept. of Religion, UIUC) examines the role of narrative placemaking in the epigraphic and literary record of fifteenth-century Mewar in northwest India. Click here to watch the recording.
Speaker: Dr. Honaida Yousuf Ahyad. In today’s talk, Dr. Ahyad will address three Sociolinguistic Challenges: the excessive use of religious expressions, gender role and their impact on the workplace, and translation loss. Click here...
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This talk, by Prof. Avishek Ray, focuses on the epistemic and political implications of ascribing an "Indian origin" to the Roma. How do scholars and savants seek to understand Roma populations with reference to their purported origin and what ideas of Indian-ness does this entail? {"...
The speaker, referencing her book, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa, examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa. Click...
This talk presents the results of an archaeological and oral historical survey of Delhi’s refugee colony areas. Despite the dispossession and hardship wrought by the Partition, residents in these neighborhoods have transformed rudimentary government-built housing units into beloved, multi-...
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In this talk, the speaker explores the interconnectedness between the Qur’an and literature produced in the U.S and Canada by Muslim Women. She seeks to draw attention to the wide variety of texts by American and Canadian Muslim women writers who reference the Qur’an and/or its Tafsir (i.e....
In his talk, our speaker explores how Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People respond to the notion of development gained through the transfer of pollution to poor countries in the age of neoliberal globalization. {"preview_thumbnail...
Shari Eppel, Executive Director of the Ukuthula Trust in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, speaks about the Trust's work with families of massacre victims in southwest Zimbabwe to identify, exhume and properly rebury the dead. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/...
Dr. Erdogan Boz discusses Yunus Emre on 700th anniversary of the poet's death. Note: Translation captions are posted during the lecture. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/1_4uqejt42.jpg?itok=RWWj2ErX","...
Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of Economics at Denison University and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity; Nouri Gana is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA; Dr. Laryssa Chomiak is...
This seminar highlights current developments in the mechanisms being used to more accurately target the poor. The speakers discuss their recent efforts to apply machine learning methods to newly released and proprietary data from key humanitarian agencies to develop more effective and...
This talk traces the extraordinary and extraordinarily mobile career of Si Azouaou Mammeri, an Algerian painter renowned for his Orientalist depictions of North Africa who served for decades in the French colonial government in Morocco. Dr. Matsushita argues that, by situating him in a...
Prof. Rustem Aslan, archaeologist, gives a talk in the series titled, "Turkish History and Culture." {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/1_kmp9qhtn.jpg?itok=35uHt1VE","video_url":"https://mediaspace....
Dr. Rose argues that cumulative effects of health crises he describes should be considered among the triggering factors for the uprising of 1919 that became known as the Egyptian Revolution, especially in rural areas and among the urban poor. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/...
This talk assesses the actual monetary policy stance in three countries in the MENA region: Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco, and is based on the Taylor-rule framework.
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