(B)orders of Empire - Symposium


 Film and Media Studies     Apr 20 2018 | 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM HG 1010

Please join us for “(B)orders of Empire: Colonial Pasts, Imperial Presents, and Implicate Futures of the Global Middle East” on Friday April 20, 2018 in HG 1010. This symposium will begin with a graduate student panel at 9:30am, will feature a keynote address at 11:30am by Professor Ronak Kapadia (U. of Illinois, Chicago), and a faculty panel at 2:00pm with Professor Sherene Razack (UCLA), Professor Gary Fields (UC San Diego), and Professor Laila Shereen Sakr (UC Santa Barbara).  This event will also include an afternoon screening of Ai Wei Wei’s “Human Flow” (2017)” at 4:15pm in the McCormick Screening Room.

For more information, including the symposium schedule, presentation abstracts, and participant bios, visit https://ucibordersofempire.wordpress.com.

This symposium has been made possible by the generous co-sponsorship of the University of California Office of the President Multicampus Research Programs and Initiative Funding, the UC Humanities Research Institute, Women’s Voices Now, and the UCI Global Middle East Studies program.

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