ICLAST Lunch: Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS)

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Tuesday November 13, 2018
      11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location: Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102 215 Bobby Dodd Way, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30313
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Contact

Dr. Carol A. Colatrella
Professor, LMC
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Email: carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu

Summaries

Summary Sentence: The ICLAST Lunch: Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Stephen C. Hall Building, Room 102, will give students the opportunity to converse about Georgia Tech MENA opportunities

Full Summary: The Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts invites you to the Innovation and Collaboration in Liberal Arts, Science, and Technology (ICLAST) Lunch: Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Stephen C. Hall Building, Room 102. Students will have the chance to converse about Georgia Tech opportunities in Morocco.

The Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts invites you to the Innovation and Collaboration in Liberal Arts, Science, and Technology (ICLAST) Lunch: Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Stephen C. Hall Building, Room 102. Students will have the chance to converse about Georgia Tech opportunities in Morocco.

MENAS faculty will speak about a topic of pedagogic or research concern, for a broad audience, followed by some discussion, under the rubric Teaching the Middle East in the United States: Problems and Opportunities.

 Dr. Laura Bier, Associate Professor of History, Department of History and Sociology

      Teaching Gender in Middle Eastern History

  Dr. David Marcus, Arabic Lecturer, School of Modern Languages  

      Teaching Diglossia in the Arabic Language Classroom

Mr. Adil Elkhiyari, Director, Qalam wa Lawh Institute

      Teaching MSA in Rabat, Morocco

  Dr. Anna Stenport, Chair, School of Modern Languages 

      Morocco and Tech - Current Initiatives

Please register here. RSVP is required for lunch.

The ICLAST interdisciplinary research discussion series is designed to encourage research collaborations and to disseminate research to faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and masters and undergraduate students across the College and campus. Panelists from different Georgia Tech units present their research on a common topic linking the liberal arts, sciences, and technology.

ICLAST (Innovation and Collaboration in Liberal Arts, Science, and Technology) events are supported by a grant from GT-FIRE.

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Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Invited Audience
Postdoc, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Student sponsored
Keywords
MENA, Middle East, north africa, Morocco, studies
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  • Created On: Aug 14, 2018 - 5:22pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 15, 2018 - 2:08pm