The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present
Samuel Dolbee Assistant Professor of History, Family Dean's Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East, Vanderbilt University
Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, is an environmental historian of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, with interests in agriculture, disease, and science. He teaches courses in the Department of History and as part of the Climate Studies major.
A presentation from 2023–2024 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow Francesca Wade
At Radcliffe, Wade is completing her second book, “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife,” a new biography of Stein told through the story of her posthumous legacy. She will also begin work on a new project, exploring the intersecting lives and work of several women poets and activists in 1970s New York.
Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA,
Speaker Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk tries...
Speaker: Carmen Bambach (I Tatti / The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"My talk (somewhat reworked now) was presented at an international conference, “Perugino and Young Raphael: Diagnostic Investigations and Art-Historical Studies,” Accademia Nazionale di Lincei, Rome, 26-27 October 2023. My subject relates research for the exhibition on Raphael that I am organizing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (23 March – 28 June 2026). The Met’s exhibition will be the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael in the United States...
Nasser Rabbat Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT
Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. His interests include Islamic architecture, urban history, heritage studies, Arab history, contemporary Islamic art, and post-colonial criticism. He teaches lecture courses on Islamic architecture, the architecture of Cairo, and Islamic architecture and the environment and seminars on Orientalism and colonialism; Issues in Islamic...
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Speakers: Viridiana Rios, Journalist and Author; Gustavo Flores Macías, Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs and Professor of Government and Public Policy, Cornell University; Beatriz Magaloni, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University.
Speakers: Moji Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica.
Moderated by: Jocelyn Viterna, Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University.
Jamaica is famous for being uniquely homophobic. While homophobia is real, epithets like Time magazine’s “the most homophobic place on earth” not only misrepresent reality but also posit LGBTQ+ Jamaicans exclusively as victims.
Zeynep Tek Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish Literature, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
Zeynep Tek is assistant professor at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and teaches courses on modern Turkish literature, poetry analysis, critical literary theories, and the relationship between literature and cinema. She is interested in literary dream narratives, the satirical press, comparative literature, gender and women...