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Orientalism and the Language of the Middle East |
Lillie Sullivan, Piotr Schulkes, and Hajar Meddah discuss what the Middle East as a region is and how it is portrayed in academia and the media. |
Piotr Schulkes, Hajar Meddah, Lillie Sullivan |
02 Nov 2020 |
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Cosmopolitan Conglomeration and Orientalist Appropriation in Oscar Wilde’s The Sphinx |
Katharina Herold examines the interplay of cosmopolitanism and orientalism in Wilde's poem 'The Sphinx'. |
Katharina Herold |
05 Apr 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Facebook Revolution? Social Media as Orientalist Mediation |
Miriyam Aouragh examines the useful and useless roles of the internet in the Arab revolutions by critically revisiting mainstream narratives on its role. |
Miriyam Aouragh |
25 May 2012 |
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Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Fear of Tahrir: Turkish Perspectives on the Egyptian Revolution |
Kerem Öktem presents a critical reading of Turkish public debates and the policies of the ruling party in Turkey on the Egyptian revolution. |
Kerem Öktem |
25 May 2012 |
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Introduction to Indian Literature in translation |
Professor Boehmer gives a short talk on her current research on Indian Literature in English, looking at the Post-Colonial world of literature and gives an introduction to studying World Literature in the Humanities Division. |
Elleke Boehmer |
30 Apr 2009 |
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Introduction to Studying the History and Politics of China |
Dr Rana Mitter talks about his cutting edge research in China and gives an introduction to studying the history and politics of China, a new and exciting field of research within the Humanities division. |
Rana Mitter |
29 Apr 2009 |
