- 31 Jan 2012
TEMBUSU COLLEGE AND NUS UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS PROGRAMME PRESENT: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST: A SERIES OF TEN LECTURES BY MEMBERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE
NUS and MFA please register here. TEMBUSU AND USP-CINNAMON COMMON LOUNGES, LEVEL 3 LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED
Week 1 Conceptualizing the Middle East (Michael Hudson) Tembusu College
Week 2: 7 February Islamic Origins: Messenger and Message (Peter Sluglett) USP – Cinnamon Residential College
Week 3: 14 February The Middle East and Southeast Asia (Nazry Bahrawi) Tembusu College
Week 4: 28 February From Colonialism to “Independence” (Peter Sluglett) USP – Cinnamon Residential College
Week 5: 6 March Political and Social Change after World War II (Peter Sluglett) Tembusu College
Week 6: 13 March Oil-Blessing or Curse? (Ali Kadri) USP – Cinnamon Residential College
Week 7: 20 March Political Economy of the Middle East: Development Challenge (Ali Kadri) Tembusu College
Week 8: 27 March Authoritarianism and Democratization: The Arab Uprisings (Fahed al-Sumait) USP – Cinnamon Residential College
Week 9: 3 April Arab-Israeli Conflict (Matthew Weiss) Tembusu College
Week 10: 10 April Middle East in the Global Context (Michael Hudson) USP – Cinnamon Residential College