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May 16th, 2013 |
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April 26th, 2013 |
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Instructor: Rose Aslan, Department of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill. For more information and to register online, see here. April 12th, 2013 |
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For more information, click here. April 5th, 2013 |
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On February 22-23, the 2013 Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies conference was held at the FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. “ReOrienting the Veil” focused on Muslim women’s veiling practices in transnational contexts, and featured lively, interdisciplinary discussion of the headscarf. Presenters included Elizabeth Bucar, Todd Drake, Carla Jones, Typhaine LeServot, Ellen McLarney, and Marilia Marchetti, as well as UNC professors Sahar Amer, Martine Antle, Banu Gökariksel, Juliane Hammer, and Duke professors miriam cooke and Claudia Koonz. Over two hundred attended, including faculty, students, K-12 and community college educators, and other community members. Amer and Gökariksel discussed the conference theme on WUNC’s “The State of Things” before the conference. Listen to their conversation here.
See photos from the conference here. February 26th, 2013 |
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The 2013 Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies conference will be held at the FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, Feb. 22-13, 2013, and will focus on Muslim women’s veiling practices in transnational contexts. The one and a half day conference is a forum for an interdisciplinary discussion of the cultural, religious, historical and political meanings of the Muslim headscarf. The goal of this conference is to provide a scholarly forum where nationally and internationally renowned scholars and artists will present their most recent research on veiling in the Middle East, in Europe and the USA. For a detailed description of the conference, please visit here. January 30th, 2013 |
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January 30th, 2013 |
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Click here to watch the documentary. December 23rd, 2012 |
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December 12th, 2012 |
For those who wish to publicize their event on UNC’s Mideast center’s listserv, please email Shai Tamari with the following information: