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2026 Fall Colloquium Series

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CMENAS is pleased to announce the 2025 Fall Colloquium, featuring an array of speakers with the theme.

Power and Struggle

Wednesdays at 2 PM, 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church St. (unless noted)

Questions? Email cmenas@umich.edu.

September 16 | Ayşehan Jülide Etem, University of Virginia
Projecting Power: Film Diplomacy and the Making of the Turkey-US Alliance


September 23 | Ismail Einashe, University of Michigan
Making the ‘Migrant Crisis?’: Media, Power and Perception

 

October 28 | Jatin Dua, University of Michigan
Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea

 

November 11 | Irene Fernández-Molina, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Western Sahara: Multi-scalar Struggles, Recognition and Change in a Thawing Conflict

 

December 2 | M. Mashuq Kurt, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
‘Vernacular Sovereignty’ Without a State: Kurdish Studies, Decolonial Thought, and the Making of Online Kurdistan

 

December 9 | Fiona McCallum Guiney, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Middle Eastern Christians: The Struggle for Recognition and Rights

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