Sep
16
CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Projecting Power: Film Diplomacy and the Making of the Turkey-US Alliance
Ayşehan Jülide Etem, University of Virginia
2:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
16
2026 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | Poetry, Traumatic History, Memory: Thinking about the Armenian Genocide
Peter Balakian (Colgate University)
6:00 PM
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Museum of Art
Sep
23
CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Making the ‘Migrant Crisis?’: Media, Power and Perception
Ismail Einashe, University of Michigan
2:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
30
“Searching for Nubia”
Film Screening & Director Q&A
7:00 PM
Theatre #3
Off Campus Location
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
