Monday, October 30, 6:00-7:00PM: Professor Joseph Wiltberger, University of California San Diego and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, will speak as part of the Root Causes of Central American Migration Lecture Series. Wiltberger researches questions of migration, forced displacement, borders and … Read more
Please join us for the second talk of the new CMEIS lecture series on "Legacies of the Middle Eastern and Muslim Experience of the 20th Century." On Monday, Nov 14,Dr. Caroline Elkins, Professor of history and of African and African … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) is hosting five public events as part of its lecture series for the 2022-2023 Academic Year on "Legacies of the Middle Eastern and Muslim Experience of the 20th Century." The speakers will share their research … Read more
Please join us for a conversation between Nomanul Haq, Dean, Univesity of Management and Technology (Lahore) and Carl Ernst, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill. You can find a brief description of the event here: "The Kitab al-Tawasin … Read more
"Walls" is a panel discussion and Q&A session on state boundary enforcement from a variety of different global spaces and times, including the Great Wall of China, Roman city walls, the Berlin Wall, Israel's border walls, and the US-Mexico border … Read more
Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A on the challenges of historical memory and memorialization from different sites around the world, including early twentieth-century France, early modern and postwar Germany, and contemporary South Africa and China. The purpose of … Read more
