CANCELLED

Various speakers – Panel Discussion ‘Banquo’s Ghost: England in the Irish and Scottish Historical Imagination’

Modern Irish History seminar, with Scottish History

Modern Irish History seminar

Ewan Morris (University of Edinburgh): W(h)anganui and (London)Derry: Uses of History in Debates About Place Names 

IMES Seminar Series: Rasha Soliman (Leeds) - Arabic Cross-dialectal Conversations with Implications for the Teaching of Arabic as a Second Language

Mériam Cheikh (Visiting Scholar) - “Ethnographying sex work, analysing intimate lives: sexuality and respectability of working class women in Tangier (Morocco)”

Professor Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila: When East meets West - cultural contacts around the Mediterranean

Professor Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila will be giving his Inaugural Lecture on the topic of cultural transmission between Arab-Islamic and western cultures.

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IMES Seminar Series:

Nacim Pak-Shiraz (Edinburgh) - “Solomon on Screen: The Qur’an and Cinema”

IMES Seminar Series: Joshua Ralston (Edinburgh) - “"That Hideous Schizophrenia": A Genealogy of Islamic Polemics against Christianity and Secularism.”

The 2nd annual William Montgomery Watt lecture - Charisma and Anti-Charisma in al-Andalus - will be given by Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the Centre of Human and Social Sciences at the Higher Council for Scientific Research in Spain.

PhD presentations by Neil Russell on “Bringing the State Back in? Private Islamic institutions and official religious bureaucracy in Sisi's Egypt” and Ben Robin on “Iraq's Reform Protest Movement: Explaining secular-Sadrist cooperation”.

Ewan Stein (Edinburgh) - “International Relations in the Middle East: Social Movements and Regional Order”