Upcoming Events
5:00pm - 7:00pm
AM 189
Please join CMENAS and the Department of Sociology for a free screening of the Academy Award winning documentary No Other Land.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
LN 2200 (Alpern Room)
Lecture title: "Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Turkey"
Speaker: Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Waterloo University
Blurb: Since the turn of the 21st century, Turkey has experienced both the rise of democratization efforts making formerly excluded minority citizens more visible in public life and an authoritarian nationalism that has bolstered the country’s longstanding racial, religious, and political divides. Drawing on extended fieldwork in Antakya (Antioch) near Turkey’s border with Syria, this talk focuses on the ambiguous sites of intimacy and social cohabitation that emerge for the minoritized from the interplay between these seemingly opposite political developments. I examine how unevenly situated minority and refugee groups at Turkey’s national margins forge each other’s existence through reproducing religious differences amid various forms of precarity, political polarization, and structural violence.
Speaker: Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Waterloo University
Blurb: Since the turn of the 21st century, Turkey has experienced both the rise of democratization efforts making formerly excluded minority citizens more visible in public life and an authoritarian nationalism that has bolstered the country’s longstanding racial, religious, and political divides. Drawing on extended fieldwork in Antakya (Antioch) near Turkey’s border with Syria, this talk focuses on the ambiguous sites of intimacy and social cohabitation that emerge for the minoritized from the interplay between these seemingly opposite political developments. I examine how unevenly situated minority and refugee groups at Turkey’s national margins forge each other’s existence through reproducing religious differences amid various forms of precarity, political polarization, and structural violence.
6:00pm - 8:00pm
American Civic Association, 131 Front St, Binghamton
Join us for a night of Middle Eastern culture, food, and heritage! On display for this Arab Heritage Month Exhibition will be the Reclaiming Heritage in Diaspora: Thobe & Artifact Collection by @tatreezishark
Cost at Entrance: Adults: $10, Kids (12 & Under): $5
This event is co-sponsored by CMENAS, ACA, and ASA.
Cost at Entrance: Adults: $10, Kids (12 & Under): $5
This event is co-sponsored by CMENAS, ACA, and ASA.
- Past Events
- Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop (GLOW)
- Memorial Walk - Armenian Genocide
- Middle East and North Africa Culture Night and Calligraphy Workshop with Nada Odeh, at American Civic Association
- Calligraphy Workshop with Syrian Artist, Nada Odeh, at BU
- Karagoz Workshop
- Book Talk: "Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story" by Jordan Salama
- Book Talk: "Devotion to the Administrative State" by Mona Oraby (Howard University)
- Book Talk: "Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria" by Ammar Azzouz
- Film screening of "Boycott" followed by Q&A with Bahia Amawi and Jordana Rubenstein
- Commemoration of the Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria: Film screening of the Documentary "Hatay: 1-11 September 2023"
- Middle East and North Africa Culture Night
- Art as survival and resistance: Guantamo in the Global War on Terror
- Middle East and North Africa Culture Night
- End of the semester potluck
- Forum for peace: Israel and Palestine 3
- Azize Aslan's book launch: "Anticapitalist economy in Rojava"
- Forum for peace: Israel and Palestine
- Film screening of "The Present" followed by Q&A with the director
- Open House
- Lecture: "Arab Istanbulites at the End of the Ottoman Empire.” (Presented by Professor Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University)
- CMENAS Faculty Affiliates Business Meeting
- Meet the American Civic Association (ACA)
