Program in Ottoman Studies, Concert

SONGS OF THE SULTANS (Turkey, 2009, 22 minutes)
www.coffeefuturesfilm.com
Monday, March 1, 2010 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

AHMET ERDOĞDULAR (CUNY Graduate Center, Ethnomusicology) is one of the most important musicians of the new generation in Turkish classical music. Analyzing the techniques of old masters of Ottoman music, he emphasizes preservation of many of the classical vocal improvisational forms.  Ahmet Erdoğdular will be accompanied by Mavrothi T. Kontanis on oud and Emmanuel Hoseyn During on viola.  Admission is free, but seating is limited.

 

Comparative Literature Series

Military Coup Narratives & the (Dis)articulations of the Political in the Contemporary Turkish Novel
Thursday, March 4, 2010 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: 19 University Place, 1st Floor Great Room

With Professor Sibel Irzık (Sabanci University,Istanbul) .

 

Literary Conference 

NATIONAL POETS/UNIVERSAL POETICS MAHMOUD DARWISH AND NAZIM HIKMET IN COMPARATIVE LITERARY PERSPECTIVE
Friday - Saturday, March 5- March 6, 2010
Friday Location: The Kevorkian Center, 255 Sullivan Street
Saturday Location: The New School, 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor

Sponsored by Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.  For a complete schedule, email kevorkian.center@nyu.edu

RELATED MATERIALS:

• As the Land is Language
  
• NATIONAL POETS/UNIVERSAL POETICS
  
• Poetry Event

Research Workshop

ECONOMIES OF PLEASURE A READING OF TEMPORARY MARRIAGE IN THE HOLY CITY OF QUM
Monday, March 8, 2010 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm

NARGES ERAMI (Anthropology, Yale University) will explore temporary marriage, /mut'a/, in post-revolutionary Iran. Temporary marriage is a religiously sanctioned institution that permits a couple to have sexual relations. After comparing Shahla Haeri’s ethnography on temporary marriage to interviews conducted in Qum in early 2000s, she will explore the connection between usufruct and /jouissance/ (a concept developed by Lacan and others) and its ramifications for an expanded understanding of desire, exchange, and the commodity fetish.
Beth Baron (History, City College/CUNY Graduate Center), author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics will serve as discussant.
Note:  All workshop participants must read the paper beforehand.  Copies are available in the Ettinghausen Library or by emailing Sarah Coffey at sc145@nyu.edu

Conference

RADARS AND FENCES III: BORDERS, AFFECT, SPACE ISRAEL / MEXICO / PALESTINE / US Featuring AMY SARA CARROLL, RICARDO DOMINGUEZ, LAILA EL HADDAD, MUSHON ZER’AVIV, TEDDY CRUZ, and HELGA TAWIL-SOURI
Friday, March 12, 2010 | 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

Sponsored by the Council for Media and Culture, The Humanities Initiative, The Hemispheric Institute, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Taub Center for Israel Studies.  For more information, http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/md1445/rf

 

Comparative Literature Series

HEBREW, ARABIC, & WHAT’S IN-BETWEEN: LANGUAGE & METALANGUAGE IN THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE by LITAL LEVY (Princeton University) COMPLICITIES OF LITERATURE: EMMANUEL LEVINAS, BUTROS AL-BUSTANI, AND QISSAT AS`AD AL-SHIDYAQ by JEFFREY SACKS (University of California at Riverside)
Thursday, March 23, 2010 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 19 University Place, 1st Floor Great Room

 

Film Screening, Visual Culture Series

AMREEKA (USA, 2009, 96 minutes)
www.amreeka.com
Directed by Cherien Dabis
Friday, March 26, 2010 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Synopsis: Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois.  In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle.