Events
We bring voices from around the globe to the Ithaca campus to go beyond the headlines and foster dialogue. Explore our upcoming and past events.
Upcoming Events
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Arang Keshavarzian (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU)
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those…
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium, G64
Due to weather-related travel cancellations, Nasser Abourahme’s lecture on February 25 and graduate seminar on February 26 are postponed until Wednesday, March 11-12. Times and lecture location remain the same.
Abstract
Settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to…
4:45 pm
Klarman Hall, KG42
In one of the most celebrated instances of modernizing Islamic craft, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922–2019) transformed mirror revetment—a labor-intensive and opulent decorative technique popular in Iranian architecture since the early modern period—into post-minimalist sculptural reliefs and geometric…
5:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G24B
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
