Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 12:30 pm
"The Powerful Role of Spatial Planning in Conflictual Zones: From Violent to Hopeful Urbanisms." Yosef Jabareen
- Webinar

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana
IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi
- Lecture

Friday, February 28, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 1, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1035, Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Talk by Dr. Arif Alvi, President of Pakistan (2018-2024)
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
CSAMES Event: "On Translating Arabic Poetry," A Discussion with Huda Fakhreddine and Eric Calderwood
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 Mathew Ave Urbana
CSAMES Lecture: "The sight that I offer is the fairest of sights’: Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba.” Abigail Balbale

Abstract: Of the many beautiful objects associated with Madinat al-Zahra and the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate, perhaps none are as celebrated as a series of ivory pyxides and caskets produced for members of the royal family. Several of them were made for royal mothers, formerly enslaved concubines who earned their freedom by bearing the caliph's children. Caliphal concubines
- Lecture

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- 112 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright St. Champaign
Film screening: "Lyd"

Directors: Sarah Ema Friedland, Rami Younis It is a story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become. A discussion by Professor Laura Goffman, Department of History at the Univesity of Illinois followed this.
- Film Screening