Oct
07
Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture | Purist Pursuits: Language, Global Ideas, and the Creation of Western Armenian in the Ottoman Empire
Jennifer Manoukian (University of Michigan)
4:30 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
14
CMENAS 65th Anniversary: Celebrate the Legacy, Scholarship, & Future of Mena Studies
Keynote by Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
10:00 AM
Vandenberg Room (2nd Floor)
Michigan League
Oct
28
CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
Jatin Dua, University of Michigan
2:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Nov
11
CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Western Sahara: Multi-scalar Struggles, Recognition and Change in a Thawing Conflict
Irene Fernández-Molina, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
2:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Nov
11
Guest Lecture | Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University)
4:30 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Dec
02
CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | ‘Vernacular Sovereignty’ Without a State: Kurdish Studies, Decolonial Thought, and the Making of Online Kurdistan
M. Mashuq Kurt, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
2:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
