Sussex Asia Centre

Past Events

 

Silk Road: Talk & Exhibition

Friday 21 March from 18:00 until 19:30

University of Sussex Campus

Sussex-based artist Carole Bennet discusses her work as a ceramic artist, inspired by Medieval Arabic poetry and the ancient Silk Road.


Murjana: A Novel of Medieval Baghdad

Tuesday 18 March from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Book launch of new novel by Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi


A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (film screening)

Tuesday 31 October from 18:00 until 21:00

University of Sussex Campus

Ana Lilly Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), with introduction and conversation with Zeina Frangie-Eyres and Despoina Mantziari


Leverhulme Lecture: Extracting the Energy Transition: Lithium Imaginaries and Impossible Futures

Wednesday 25 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

The Centre for Rights and Anticolonial Justice & the Sussex Energy Group would like to invite everyone to join this Leverhulme Lecture...


Middle East and North Africa PhD work-in-progress

Wednesday 18 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

A range of current Sussex PhD students discuss their research on the Middle East and North Africa region.


Book launch: Jacob Norris, 'The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub'

Monday 24 April from 16:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

Jacob Norris discusses his new book 'The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub' with historian Dr Joanne Paul and literature scholar Dr Feras Alkabani


‘Beyond Sectarianism: Rural-Urban Relations and the Future of the Syrian Conflict’

Wednesday 29 March from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

Dr Naboulsi explores rural-urban tensions in Syria and why they should be considered in future settlement of the conflict. Chaired by Dr Feras...


MENACS collective read: Marwan Hisham's "Brothers of the Gun"

Thursday 9 March from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

A discussion of Marwan Hisham's book, "Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War".


Displacing History: Writing, Longing and (Un)Belonging - In Conversation with Isabella Hammad

Monday 17 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad discusses her acclaimed novel The Parisian.


Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews and Arabs Under the French Mandate

Thursday 4 November from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

Global historian Camila Pastor discusses the entwined histories of Mexico and Syria/Lebanon during the interwar years


Algiers in the Mid-Twentieth Century: From Anti-Colonial Resistance to the Mecca of Third World Revolution

Wednesday 13 October from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Elaine Mokhtefi will explore Algiers' revolutionary culture in the 1960s, from the War of Independence to the Pan-African Festival of 1969.


O Daughter of Babylon: Journey of an Iraqi Patriot

Wednesday 28 April from 16:00 until 17:30

Online

Book talk followed by conversation between Dr Ali Kassem (Sussex) and Dr Francis Clark-Lowes, editor of Riad El-Taher’s O Daughter of Babylon.


Mahmud Mukhtar: The Prophet and the Professional

Tuesday 23 March from 16:00 until 18:00

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Mahmud Mukhtar (1891-1934) is widely considered the father of modern Egyptian sculpture, and the country's first internationally recognised artist.


Publishing in MENA journals

Wednesday 17 March from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Thinking of publishing your MENA-focused research in a reputable peer-reviewed journal?


Sussex Asia Centre doctoral workshop  February 2018

FILM-SCREENING SERIES: MOBILITIES, MIGRATION AND COMMERCE IN ASIA 2017

RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES MASTERCLASS FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS 2017

WEST ASIA WORKSHOP 2017

USAC AUTUMN TERM SEMINAR SERIES 2016-17: Politics and Society in South Asia

USAC SPRING TERM SEMINAR SERIES 2016-17

Asia and Environment

Asian Intimacies in Comparative Perspective

Chinoiseri: The Chinese World in the European Mind

Corruption and Integrity Building in Central Asia and Beyond

Higher Education in The Asian Century: Does Expansion Mean Inclusion?

Hindustani Classical Music

Nowruz

PHD Workshop: New Perspectives of and from Asia

REAL ESTATE SPECULATION AT A FRONTIER OF CAPITALISM

USAC AUTUMN TERM SEMINAR SERIES 2015-16

USAC Scholars Participate in TRODITIES Launch Meeting in Yiwu

USAC scholars participate in TRODITIES workshop held at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Afghanistan Post 2014