Speakers

Past Speakers:

Michelle Campos, “Between Empire and Nation:  Muslims, Christians, and Jews and the end of the Ottoman Empire.”  April 2, 2013.  (Part of a four-part lecture series:  EUROPE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD:  Cultural Encounters in Theater, Art, and Politics).

Ali Humayun Akhtar, “Post-Graffiti Damascus and Cairo:  Arab Street Art as a Global Aesthetic.”   March 25, 2013.  (Part of a four-part lecture series:  EUROPE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD:  Cultural Encounters in Theater, Art, and Politics). 

Nebahat Avcioglu, “Turquerie and Orientalism:  Cultural Transfer between Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries.”  March 11, 2013.  (Part of a four-part lecture series:  EUROPE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD:  Cultural Encounters in Theater, Art, and Politics).

David Rodríguez-Solás, “Coming to Terms with Islamic Spain:  Contemporary Stagings of Early Modern Spanish Theatre.”  March 4, 2013.  (Part of a four-part lecture series:  EUROPE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD:  Cultural Encounters in Theater, Art, and Politics).

Jeffrey Jackson, “Paris Under Water.  How The City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910.”  April, 2010.