Lecture titles have been added for some of the speakers, and will be updated for the others once the information becomes available.
Here is the list of speakers as of 1/12/2011. This list is subject to change. Please check back often.
Note: students taking this course for credit need to make themselves available on the dates of the lectures (even if they don't fall on Mondays or Wednesdays), at the very least from 5 to 8pm. This is one of the course's requirements. See more about this in the previous post.
Currently, all lectures are scheduled for 6pm on the dates listed below. They are free and open to the public. No need to RSVP.
Event Posponed, new date TBA.
Monday, 2/28 - Professor Kenneth Stein, William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies at Emory University, and the director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, also at Emory.
Lecture title: American Foreign Policy: Adjusting to a Shifting Middle East Landscape
Location: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave, Norman, in the Kerr Auditorium.
Thursday, 3/3 - Ophir Pines-Paz, former Israeli Minister of Interior and Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport, and former Member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) from the Labor Party.
Lecture title: The Peace Process: is the Age of Bilateral Talks Over?
Location:
note: venue has changed!
Wednesday, 3/9 - Professor Ussama Makdisi, Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arabic Studies and Professor of History at Rice University
Lecture title: Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations
Location: Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave, Norman.
Talk will start at 5pm.Monday, 4/4 - Elias Muhanna, author of the blog qifanabki.com about Lebanon, and a PhD candidate at Harvard University.
Lecture title: Adventures in Demography/Democracy: Prospects for Electoral Reform in Lebanon
Location: Associates Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union, 3rd floor.
note: date has changed twice!
Location: Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave, Norman.
Monday, 5/2 - Dr. Martin Kramer, senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, President-designate of Shalem College (in formation), and the Wexler-Fromer Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Location: Scholars Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union, 3rd floor.
Note: the last lecture takes place on "dead week." According to university policy, events may be scheduled for dead week 30 days or more in advance. Students taking the course will be expected to attend this lecture.
