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Featured Event
CMES Spotlight Series - On the Borderland: Making Home, Making Music
Mon, April 8 | 9:00 AM | Zoom | Graduate Fellows Panel
Ali Derafshi (History of Art & Architecture), Personmania, Persophobia, Persophilia: A Century of Self-fashioning with ‘Persian Architecture’ in California
Fîdel Kılıç (Music), Dreaming Kurdistan: Kurdish Experience of Cassettes
Abylay Stambayev (History), Making Home(s) in Displacement: the “Return Migration” of Kazakhs from China
Kira Weiss (Music), National Sentiment(ality): How Music was Instrumental in the Making of Modern Egypt
Discussant: Prof. Bishnu Ghosh (Global Studies and English)
Point of Pride
CMES Director Sherene Seikaly (History)
Has received a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will be working on her book From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine that charts the trajectory of her great-grandfather Naim Cotran (c. 1877-1961) from nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon. The book places the question of Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession.