Past events
IMES seminars, and selected conferences, lectures, film screenings, exhibitions, and workshops 2015-2019.
IMES Seminar Series
IMES Seminar Series: Autumn 2019
IMES Seminar Series: Spring 2019
IMES Seminar Series: Autumn 2018
- 15th January 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Meriam Cheikh'. Dr Meriam Cheikh (University of Edinburgh).
- 22nd January 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Katie Natanel'. Dr Katie Natanel (University of Exeter).
- 29th January 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: John Nagle'. Dr John Nagle (University of Aberdeen).
- 19th February 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Ruba Saleh'. Dr Ruba Saleh (SOAS).
- 5th February 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Arianne Shahvisi'. Dr Arianne Shahvisi (University of Sussex).
- 12th February 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Alberto Carbajal'. Dr Alberto Carbajal (Roehampton University).
- 26th February 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Afaf Jabiri (CANCELLED)'. Dr Afaf Jabiri (University of East London).
- 5th March 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: PhD candidates Omaima Al Jubouri & Asif Khanan'. Omaima Al Jubouri (The Project of New Iraq and Dismantling the Iraqi Military Institution - 2003-2006), and Asif Khanan (The Use of Ideology in the Thought of Yusuf al-Qaradawi).
- 12th March 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Zahera Harb'. Dr Zahera Harb (City, University of London).
- 19th March 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Ebtihal Mahadeen'. Dr Ebtihal Mahadeen (University of Edinburgh).
- 26th March 2018 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Luisa Gandolfo (CANCELLED)'. Dr Luisa Gandolfo (University of Aberdeen).
- 18th September 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Types of Connotation, and their Implications for Arabic/English translation'. Professor James Dickins (University of Leeds).
- 25th September 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: The Evolution of Islamic Chivalry (futuwwa) from the ʿAbbasids to the Ottomans'. Dr Ines Aščerić-Todd (University of Edinburgh).
- 2nd October 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Behind Bars - Reflections on a History of the Middle Eastern Prison'. Dr Anthony Gorman (University of Edinburgh).
- 9th October 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Picturing the Later Mughals - Shah Alam II and Bazgasht Imagery in British Delhi'. Dr Yuthika Sharma (University of Edinburgh).
- 16th October 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: New Directions in Iranian Cinema'. Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz (University of Edinburgh).
- 23rd October 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Mary the mother of Jesus in Islam'. Professor Emerita Carole Hillenbran (University of Edinburgh).
- 30th October 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Marriage and the Origins of Mecca'. Dr Majied Robinson (University of Edinburgh).
- 6th November 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Egypt and the 2013 rupture and beyond: reflections on unruly politics'. Prof Mariz Tadros (University of Sussex).
- 13th November 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: PhD presentations'. Farshid Kazemi and Aurangzeb Haneef (University of Edinburgh).
- 17th November 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Syria: What Went Wrong?'. Professor Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St Andrews).
- 20th November 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Friends, Colleagues and Grand Vezirs: The Ottoman Art of Letter-writing (c. 1600)'. Dr Christine Woodhead (Durham University).
- 27th November 2017 - 'IMES Research Seminar: Ruling Families and Business in the Gulf Monarchies: The Re-Definition of the Oligarchic Pact'. Dr Marc Valeri (University of Exeter).
- 16th January 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Alexander the Great in Early Persian and Arabic Historiography'. Professor Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (University of Edinburgh).
- 23rd January 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: From dietary antinomianism to dietary prohibitions'. Dr Nicolai Sinai (University of Oxford).
- 30th January 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: The Great Mosque of Damascus in Umayyad Times'. Dr Alain George (University of Edinburgh).
- 6th February 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Mosaics from the late Byzantine to early Islamic period'. Dr Richard McClary (University of Edinburgh).
- 13th February 2017 - 'PhD Presentations: Simon Loynes and Matthew Barber'. Simon Loynes and Mathew Barber (University of Edinburgh).
- 20th February 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Society and housing in Late Antique and early Islamic Palmyra'. Dr Emanuele Intagliata (University of Edinburgh).
- 27th February 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: ‘Adi ibn Zayd al-‘Ibadi and the origin of the Arabic wine song'. Dr Kirill Dmitriev (University of St Andrews).
- 6th March 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Captivity, Concubinage, and Consent'. Professor Kecia Ali (University of Boston).
- 13th March 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Holy cities and regime change in the 8th-century Islamic world'. Dr Harry Munt (University of York).
- 20th March 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Motifs in the legends of the pre-Islamic kings and tribes'. Professor Julia Bray (University of Oxford).
- 27th March 2017 - 'An 8th-century Turkic rebel against Islamic proselytising: Gülnar Hatun'. Professor Ayşe Çalık Ross (University of Kocaeli).
- 3rd April 2017 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Early Iranian and Arab Shi`i Discussions of Leadership Between Late Antiquity and Early Islam'. Professor Andrew Newman (University of Edinburgh).
- 19th September 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Body and Spirit in Early Islamic Thought'. Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS).
- 26th September 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Liberty and Coloniality in the early modern Arabic comparative criticism of Rūḥī al-Khālidī'. Haifa Saud (KSU, Saudi Arabia).
- 3rd October 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Is Torture Allowed in the Shariah or Not?'. Jonathan Brown (Georgetown).
- 10th October 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Untold Stories: Arab Media Provision for Children'. Naomi Sakr (Westminster).
- 17th October 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Arab Varieties of Capitalism'. Steffen Hertog (LSE).
- 24th October 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: International Relations in the Middle East: Social Movements and Regional Order'. Ewan Stein (Edinburgh).
- 31st October 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: PhD Presentations'. Neil Russell and Ben Robin (Edinburgh).
- 7th November 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: "That Hideous Schizophrenia": A Genealogy of Islamic Polemics against Christianity and Secularism'. Joshua Ralston (Edinburgh).
- 14th November 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Solomon on Screen: The Qur’an and Cinema'. Nacim Pak-Shiraz (Edinburgh).
- 21st November 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Ethnographying sex work, analysing intimate lives'. Mériam Cheikh (Visiting Scholar).
- 28th November 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Arabic Cross-dialectal Conversations with Implications for the Teaching of Arabic as a Second Language'. Rasha Soliman (Leeds).
- 11th January 2016 - 'PhD presentations - Ching-An Chang and Saverio Leopardi'. Ching-An Chang and Saverio Leopardi (University of Edinburgh).
- 18th January 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Battle of paradigms'. Jamie Allinson (University of Edinburgh).
- 25th January 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: The different stages of the Kurdish liberation struggle in Iraq'. Yaniv Voller (University of Edinburgh).
- 1st February 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Investigating civil war in Syria from YouTube'. Cécile Boëx (EHESS Paris).
- 8th February 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Refugees, war, and state-making in the Middle East'. Benjamin White (University of Glasgow).
- 22nd February 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Syria: destructions, displacements, and territorial changes'. Leila Vignal (Oxford University – Université de Rennes 2).
- 29th February 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Libya from revolution to chaos, from chaos to dialogue'. Virginie Colombier (European University Institute, Florence).
- 7th March 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Revolt, rebellion and civil war in the Umayyad period'. Andrew Marsham (University of Edinburgh).
- 14th March 2016 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Yemen at war'. Laurent Bonnefoy (CNRS-CERI Paris).
- 21st March 2016 - 'PhD presentations - Ula Zeir and Zeynep Merve Uygun'. Ula Zeir and Zeynep Merve Uygun (University of Edinburgh).
- 28th March 2016 - 'PhD presentations - Harriet Fildes and Aurangzeb Haneef'. Harriet Fildes and Aurangzeb Haneef (University of Edinburgh).
- 21st September 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Farewell to the vanguard'. Dr Thomas Pierret (University of Edinburgh).
- 5th October 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Documenting endangered languages'. Professor Janet Watson (University of Leeds).
- 28th September 2015 - 'PhD presentations - Sarah Irving and Jona Fras'. Sarah Irving and Jona Fras (University of Edinburgh).
- 12th October 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: One of a Kind'. Dr Ahmed Khaleel (University of York).
- 19th October 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: The ‘Hadith Literature’'. Dr Stephen Burge (Institute of Ismaili Studies).
- 26th October 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: The Origins of the Conflict between Sunni and Shi‘i Islam'. Professor Wilferd Madelung (University of Oxford).
- 2nd November 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Transnational Shīʿism and the Endangered Promise of Pakistan'. Simon W Fuchs (Princeton University).
- 9th November 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Polite Conversation and its Consequences in the Ottoman Empire'. Dr Helen Pfeifer (University of Cambridge).
- 16th November 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Afghanistan’s Shia minorities'. Francesca Fuoli (School of Oriental and African Studies).
- 23rd November 2015 - 'PhD presentations'. Su I-Wen and Raphael Cormack (University of Edinburgh).
- 24th November 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Abstract to be confirmed'. Fanny Bessard (University of St Andrews).
- 30th November 2015 - 'IMES Seminar Series: Sectarianism in International Relations'. Dr Toby Matthiesen (St. Antony's College, University of Oxford).
- 7th December 2015 - 'PhD presentations - Alessandro Columbu and Lovisa Berg'. Alessandro Columbu and Lovisa Berg (University of Edinburgh).
Lectures and talks
'Dining with the Sultan: Reflections on the Fine Art of Feasting at the Islamic Courts'. A lecture by Dr Linda Komaroff (Curator of Islamic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Nov 02 2017
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W.M. Watt Annual Lecture 2017 - Professor Nur Masalha
Powerful Symbols and the British-Zionist Alliance: From Balfour to the Nakba.
The Evolution of the Love Story in Classical Arabic Literature
Dr Jokha Alharthi will be giving a lecture titled "The Evolution of the Love Story in Classical Arabic Literature: Creating a Model".
Professor Josef Wiesehöfer (University of Kiel) will give the First Annual Iranian heritage Foundation Lecture on "Images of the good ruler in Sasanian Iran".