James L. Gelvin - Recent Invited Presentations

Recent Invited Presentations

“The Arab Uprisings One Year On,” UCLA History-Geography Project, December 2011.

Moderator, “The Arab Spring in Egypt,” Artists and Athletes Alliance, Los Angeles, November 2011.

"What History Explains: The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and Transnational," for "Taking Stock: The Arab Uprisings on the Eve of Their First Anniversary," UCLA CNES and History Department, November 2011.

“The Arab Spring and Its Meaning for the United States,” La Cañada/La Crescenta Democratic Club, October 2011.

“Libya: The First Arab Revolution?" UCLA CNES, October 2011.

“What the Arab Uprisings Mean for Humanitarian Intervention,” International Symposium: “Humanitarian Action in the Context of Social Unrest: Challenges to Aid Efforts during the Arab Spring,” American Red Cross of the Los Angeles Region, September 2011.

“Understanding the Arab Uprisings,” UCLA History-Geography Project Summer Institute, July 2011.

“Whither Syria?” UCLA Program of Iranian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, History Department, May 2011.

“The Arab Uprisings,” Beyond the Headlines Speaker Series, UCLA Extension School, May 2011.

“Popular Uprisings in the Arab Middle East,” Santa Monica Rotary Club, April 2011.

Keynote Speaker, Conference: “Facebook Revolution: Social Networking as Mobilizing Force toward Political Change and Democratization in Egypt and across the Arab Word,” Long Beach City College, April 2011.

“The Current Uprisings in the Middle East,” Department of History, UCLA, February 2011.

“Political Islam and the Global War on Terror,” San Diego Chancellor's Associates, University of California, February 2011.

“Varieties of Political Islam,” Swarthmore College, January 2011.

“Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside-Out,” University of Pennsylvania, January 2011.

“The Culture Wars of Early Twentieth-Century Damascus,” University of Pennsylvania, January 2011.

“Enemies and Mistaken Identities: Political Islam in a Post-9/11 World,” Center for the Study of Religion, UCLA, November 2010.

“The Politics of Islam,” Brown University, September 2010.

"'Modernity', 'Tradition' and the Battleground of Gender in Early 20th Century Damascus," Brown University, September 2010.

“The Israel-Palestine Conflict,” Great Decisions lecture series, College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA., March 2010.

Appleby Lecture, San Diego State University, “A Global War Against Whom, Exactly?,” March 2010.

Twenty-fifth Annual Russel B. Swenson Lecture, Brigham Young University, “Enemies and Mistaken Identities: Political Islam in a Post-9/11 World,” March 2010.

Sesquicentennial Lecture, “Varieties of Political Islam,” University of Memphis, November 2009.

“Global War on What, Exactly?: Making Sense of Political Islam,” Boston College, March 2009.

“Political Islam: What Ayman al-Zawahiri Knows That We Should,” Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, University of North Carolina, February 2009.

“Rethinking Political Islam,” Indiana University, Bloomington, October 2008.

"America and the Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Post-Bush Era," California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, April 2008.

“Al-Qaeda: Twenty-first Century Anarchism," California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, April 2008.

“The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Look Back and a Look Forward,” Lecture Series: Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, California Polytechnic State University, February 2007.

“A Modern History of Southern Syria, Palestine, and Israel,” Global Issues Colloquium: Israel/Palestine, University of California, Santa Cruz, January 2007.

“America and the Middle East: A Historical Overview,” Special Session, Organization of American Historians, March 2005.