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inteRDisCiPLinARY LeCtuRe seRies<br />
ALL LectureS tAKe pLAce on tHurSdAYS At 5:00 p.M. In tHe SuLtAn rooM of tHe center <strong>for</strong><br />
MIddLe eAStern StudIeS, 340 StepHenS HALL<br />
September 20<br />
“Qatar’s Hidden History: Power,<br />
Image and lineage in the Gulf”<br />
Prof . allen fromherz<br />
Department of History, Georgia State<br />
University<br />
october 11<br />
“Communities of literacy and<br />
Collecting Selves in Early<br />
Modern Isfahan”<br />
Prof . Kathryn Babayan<br />
Departments of History and Near<br />
<strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Studies</strong>, University of Michigan<br />
18 CENTEr FOr MIDDlE EASTErN STUDIES<br />
LECTURES and<br />
EvEnTS fALL 20<strong>12</strong><br />
november 1<br />
“The Tunisian Elite after ‘the<br />
People’s revolution’: New<br />
Challenges <strong>for</strong> the Modernist<br />
legacy?”<br />
Dr . daniela melfa<br />
Department of Political and Social<br />
Sciences,<br />
University of Catania, Italy<br />
november 15<br />
“Measuring the Destruction of<br />
Heritage and Spikes of Violence<br />
in Iraq”<br />
Dr . Benjamin isakhan<br />
Australian research Council Discovery<br />
research Fellow<br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Citizenship and Globalization,<br />
Deakin University, Australia<br />
A COnFeRenCe:<br />
DEMOCrACY rISING? GlOBAl PrOSPECTS, PErIlS, AND POlICY CHAllENGES<br />
September 13–14<br />
HeYnS rooM, fAcuLtY cLuB<br />
The challenges of the transition to<br />
democracy and the development of<br />
countries emerging from authoritarian<br />
regimes will be the focus of this<br />
conference . Participants will<br />
include a combination of scholars<br />
and practitioners from a variety of<br />
disciplines, as well as civil society<br />
activists . The conference will be the<br />
inaugural event <strong>for</strong> UC Berkeley’s<br />
Program <strong>for</strong> the Study of Democratic<br />
Political Development in Emerging<br />
and Fledgling Democracies . This is<br />
a partnership involving the Institute<br />
of Governmental <strong>Studies</strong> (IGS) the<br />
Institute of International <strong>Studies</strong> (IIS),<br />
and the <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>Eastern</strong><br />
<strong>Studies</strong> (<strong>CMES</strong>) at U .C . Berkeley<br />
sessions include:<br />
* Global Trends in Democratic Transitions<br />
* Democracy Engagement and Civic<br />
Participation<br />
* Post-electoral Challenges — Managing<br />
Pluralism Within the Rule of Law<br />
* Russia in Transition and the Look<br />
Forward: The Russian Democratic<br />
Revolution 1989–96<br />
november 29<br />
“A New World Order: Authority,<br />
Sacrality and Early Islamic<br />
Architecture”<br />
Prof . Heba mostafa<br />
Sultan Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow/<br />
Visiting Assistant Professor<br />
History of Art Department, University of<br />
Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Berkeley<br />
I Activities in the Sultan Room are wheelchair<br />
accessible during operating hours. For all<br />
other times please call 510-642-8208<br />
Mon–Fri to request disability related<br />
accommodations.<br />
The MiDDLe eAst session is titled<br />
“The ‘Arab Spring’: Emblematic Tunisia<br />
& Egypt and the Wider <strong>Middle</strong> East”<br />
and will be held on september 14th .<br />
Speakers include:<br />
eva Bellin, Brandeis University<br />
Mahmoud el-gamal, rice University<br />
Mohsen Marzouk, Arab Democracy<br />
Foundation, Tunisia<br />
robert Springborg, School of<br />
International Graduate <strong>Studies</strong>, Monterey<br />
Shibley telhami, University of Maryland
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