Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: Experiences of American Education in the Middle East
Lecturer: Dr. Ozlem Altan-Olcay
Affiliation: Koc University in Turkey
Date: 6 November 2008
Time & Place: West Hall, Auditorium B at 5 pm

Ozlem Altan is assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Koc University in Turkey. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at New York University in 2006. Her research focuses on Middle East politics and society, globalization, elite networks, and the politics of education. She has investigated the role of cultural capital among students at AUB, AUC and Boğazİçİ University. She is the author of eleven articles; the latest of which are: "Gendered Projects of National Identity Formation: The Case of Turkey" (National Identities), "Defining ‘America’ from a Distance: Local Strategies of the Global in the Middle East" (Middle Eastern Studies), and "Makan: The Right to the City and New Ways of Understanding Space" (Arab Studies Journal).

'The Brazen White Sign of the Dollar': Empire, Economy, and the Practice of Diaspora
Lecturer: Dr. Peter James Hudson
Affiliation: University of Buffalo
Date: 10 November 2008
Time & Place: College Hall, Auditorium B1 at 5 pm

Peter James Hudson completed his PhD in the American Studies Program at New York University and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Buffalo. He is currently working on a manuscript, Dark Finance: An Unofficial History of Wall Street, American Empire, and the Caribbean, 1889-1929, that recounts the early advance of New York City banking and finance into the Caribbean. Dr. Hudson has also examined twentieth-century Caribbean writing, photography and film. In addition to his academic work, he was the editor of North: New African Canadian Writing (a special issue of the literary journal West Coast Line) and has written on Caribbean, Black North American, and African diaspora arts and culture for a number of journals including Prefix Photography (Toronto), Transition: An International Review (Cambridge), Text und Töne (New York), Chimurenga (Capetown), The Stabroek News (Georgetown), and Bidoun: Arts and Culture from the Middle East (New York).

A Debate: Assessing the Middle East Policies of the Bush Administration and the Next Administration
Lecturers: Mr. Rami Khouri and Mr. Michael Young
Affiliation: AUB and The Daily Star
Date: 25 November 2008
Time & Place: College Hall, Auditorium B1 at 5 pm

The Subversive Geographies of U.S. / Middle East Relations
Lecturer: Dr. Alex Lubin
Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Date: 8 December 2008
Time & Place: College Hall, Auditorium B1 at 5 pm

Multiculturalism in the United States: 1968-2008
Lecturer: Dr. Renate Holub
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley
Date: 22 December 2008
Time & Place: West Hall, Auditorium A at 5 pm

The Question of Palestine in America
Lecturer: Dr. Saree Makdisi
Affiliation: UCLA
Date: 12 January 2009
Time & Place: College Hall, Auditorium B1 at 5 pm

Revolution or Tajdid: Islam, Thomas Jefferson, and the Rise of American Liberty
Lecturer: Dr. Sean Foley
Affiliation: Middle Tennessee State University
Date: 20 January 2009
Time & Place: College Hall, Auditorium B1 at 5 pm