Producing Memory and Identity one case at a time: The Islamic Law Court and the Ottoman Social Imaginaries

Lecture | October 13 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 250 Barrows

Speaker: Professor Beshara Doumani, University of California, Berkeley

Sponsor: Near Eastern Studies

The Memory and Identity Working Group meetings have been designed to encourage dialogue across the department's diverse traditions. Meetings will comprise a thirty-minute lecture by a speaker, either a Berkeley faculty member, a guest scholar, or graduate student, followed by two ten-minute responses, one from a graduate student, and one from a faculty member or visiting scholar.

Event Contact: Benjamin Porter, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, bwporter@berkeley.edu, 510-642-7794