CAI Events
Upcoming Events
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| Alexander Jabbari, University of Minnesota |
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Luce, Rm 202 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) Iran Colloquium: The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India |
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| Various Speakers |
Friday, April 26, 2024 - 1:00pm ET| Humanities Quadrangle, Rm 276 (320 York St.) Muzaffar Alam & The New Mughal Historiography |
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Previous Events
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| Emily Jane Selove, University of Exeter |
Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Luce, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) CMES Colloquium: Dealing with Sakkaki’s Demons: The Jinn-summoning Rituals in the Book of the Complete |
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| Tahira Naqvi, New York University |
Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 4:00pm ET | Loria Center, Rm 351 (190 York St.) Tahira Naqvi - Book Talk & Urdu Mushaira |
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| Ümit Kurt, University of Newcastle, Australia |
Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Luce, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) CMES Colloquium: Sealed in Stone as well as Blood: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province |
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Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Florida State University
Mashuq Kurt, Royal Holloway University of London
Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University
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Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 9:00am to Friday, April 5, 2024 - 5:00pm ET | Luce, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) The Long Twentieth Century of Kurds and Kurdistan |
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Kalpana Raina, Words Without Borders Sonam Kachru, Yale University Sunil Amrith, Yale University |
Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 4:30pm ET | Luce, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) For Now, It Is Night: Stories by Hari Krishna Kaul - A Conversation with Translator Kalpana Raina |
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| Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, New York University |
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Luce, Rm 202 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) Iran Colloquium: Migration and its Diplomacy in the Sixteenth Century Ottoman-Safavid Borderlands |
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| James Caron, SOAS University of London |
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Luce, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) James Caron - Khushhal Khan Khattak, the Poetic Imagination, and the Politics of Materiality |
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Homeira Qaderi, Yale University, Writer in Residence Mujib Mehrdad, Afghan poet, playwright, translator, and journalist |
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Online Homeira Qaderi and Mujib Mehrdad: A Conversation on Afghan Literature Today |
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Ozgen Felek, Yale University Agnieszka Rec, Yale University Roberta L. Dougherty, Yale University |
Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Luce, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) CMES Colloquium: At the Gathering of Joy: Collaboratively Cataloging Beinecke’s Turkish Manuscripts |
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| Various Speakers |
Monday, March 4, 2024 - 10:00am ET | Online “Pakistan’s 2024 Elections: Yet Another Ritual?” |
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| Hamza Akram Qawwal & Brothers |
Friday, February 23, 2024 - 7:30pm ET | Luce, Rm 101 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) “Musical Performance: Hamza Akram Qawwal & Brothers” |
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Annette Damayanti Lienau, Harvard University
Nergis Ertürk, Pennsylvania State University
Sam Hodgkin, Yale University
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Friday, February 23, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Online “Iran Colloquium: Literary Modernity and Anticolonial Revolution in the Muslim World: A Conversation” |
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Homeira Qaderi, Yale University, Writer in Residence Fatemeh Shams, University of Pennsylvania |
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 12:00pm ET | Online “Homeira Qaderi and Fatemeh Shams: A Conversation on the Art of Poetry” |
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| Dr. Austin O’Malley, University of Arizona |
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - 12:00pm | Luce, Rm 202 (34 Hillhouse Ave) “Iran Colloquium: Piercing the Pearl: Neẓāmi’s Narratives and the Erotics of Speech” |
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| Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal, Lafayette College |
Monday, January 29, 2024 - 12:00pm | HQ, Rm 136 (320 York St.) “Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation” |
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| Various Speakers |
Friday, November 17, 2023 - 3:00pm ET | GM Room, Horchow Hall (55 Hillhouse Ave.) “Between a Dragon and a Bear: Central Asia in a Global World” |
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Homeira Qaderi, Yale University, Writer in Residence Aliyeh Ataei, Writer |
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 11:30am | Online
“Homeira Qaderi and Aliyeh Ataei: A Conversation on the Art of Prose Fiction”
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| Dr. Waleed Ziad, University of North Carolina |
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 - 12:00pm ET | Luce Hall, Rm 202 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) “Iran Colloquium: Hidden Caliphate, Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus” |
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| Dr. Ayse Zarakol, University of Cambridge; Emmanuel College |
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 12:00pm ET | Provost’s House (35 Hillhouse Ave.) “Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders” |
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| Dr. Boris Chukhovich, Politecnico di Milano |
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 - 4:00pm ET | Loria Hall, Rm 351 (190 York St.) “Subjectivities, Rites, and Biographical Facts: Usto Mumina as a Queer Artist?” |
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| Dr. Saglar Bougdaeva, Independent Researcher, MPH 2005 & Ph.D. 2010 Yale University |
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 3:00pm ET | Luce Hall, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave.) “Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads” |
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| Various Speakers |
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 4:30pm ET | Luce Hall, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave) “Kazakhstan After 2022: What’s Next for the Country?” |
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| Dr. Kenneth J. Yin, The City University of New York |
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 - 3:00pm ET | HQ, Rm 276 (320 York Street) Yale Slavic Colloquium presents:
“Dungan Folktales and Legends: The Folkloric Narrative Tradition of the Sino-Muslims in Central Asia”
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