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The Global Middle East: Tyler Lecture Series

April 3, 2025 - April 4, 2025
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location
Alan B. Miller Hall (Business School), Brinkley Commons Room and 1008
101 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
  • Open to the public

Thursday, April 3

Brinkley Commons Room, Miller Hall, Mason School of Business (101 Ukrop Way, Williamsburg)

4:30 – 5:00 PM Refreshments

5:00 – 6:30 PM Keynote Lecture – Zachary Lockman (New York University)

The Middle East: Spaces, Scales, Interconnections

  • Chitralekha Zutshi (William & Mary), moderator

6:30 – 7:00 PM Performance by the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble


Friday, April 4

Room # 1008, Miller Hall, Mason School of Business

8:30 – 9:30 AM Tea/Coffee and Pastries

9:30 – 11:45 AM Middle East and Global Networks

  • Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (Willliam & Mary), moderator
  • Elizabeth Williams (UMass Lowell)-Global Networks, Technology, and Economic Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean.
  • A. Tunç Şen (Columbia University)-On Their Own Terms: Science, the Occult, and Expertise in the Early Modern Middle East.
  • Mimi Hanaoka (University of Richmond)-Circular Inter-Asian Exchanges, Cartographic Dysmorphia, and Education

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 – 3:45 PM Social Movements and Revolutions in the Middle East

  • Peyman Jafari (William & Mary), moderator
  • Houri Berberian (UC Irvine)- Connected Revolutions in the Qajar and Ottoman Empires and their Transimperial Armenians
  • Asef Bayat (Illinois Urbana-Champaign)- The Middle East and the New Generation of 21st Century Revolutions
  • Enaya Othman (Marquette University)- Stitching Resistance: Palestinian Women’s Activism
  • Abdel Razzaq Takriti (Rice University)- Palestine and the Anticolonial Revolutionary Tradition, 1948-1967

3:45 – 4:15 PM Tea/Coffee Break

4:15 – 6:30 PM Greater Syria: Past and Present – In Honor of Abdul Karim Rafeq

  • Timothy Fitzgerald (James Madison University), moderator
  • Bruce Masters (Wesleyan University)- Between the Arab Nation and the Islamic State: Christian Arabs in the post-Ottoman World
  • Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) Globalizing the Jews of the Levant: Empire, Autonomy and Belonging, 1516-1881
  • Salim Tamari (Bethlehem University)- Ottomanism, Arabism, and Contested Loyalties in WWI

Sponsored by: The Harrison Ruffin Tyler Department of History