[MES Forum] Mark your calendars!

[McClimans, Melinda]

Dear Middle East Studies Forum Members,

I hope your summers are going well. The Autumn semester is starting soon and important opportunities to learn about the Middle East, experience the arts of the Middle East, and network with students and scholars of the Middle East, are coming up over the next academic year. We send this information as a reference that will help you to plan. Mark your calendars - the kick-off forum<https://mesc.osu.edu/events/middle-east-studies-forum-autumn-semester-kick> is going to be held on August 27th at 2:30 in the Research Commons.

Here is the full list events and key dates:


Monday August 19, 2024 - Gabbeh<https://wexarts.org/film-video/gabbeh> screening at the Wexner Center, 7:00pm

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 First Day of Classes | Autumn Full Term, 7-week Session 1

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 2:30pm Autumn Semester Kick-off MES Forum Hybrid in the Research Commons

Monday, Sept. 2, 2024 Labor Day

September 12-13, 2024 Launch Workshop for the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia 2.0 at The Ohio State University. See more details on the event page<https://mesc.osu.edu/events/online-inscriptions-ancient-north-arabia-2.0-launch-workshop> and the registration: go.osu.edu/Digital-Arabia<http://go.osu.edu/digital-arabia>

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 2:30 MES Forum in-person

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - “Far from Home<https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/dar-ghorbat-in-der-fremde/>”  Evening Film Screening at the Wexner Center, MESC may provide reception

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - Friday, October 4, 2024 - Rosh Hashana (Yom Kippur begins 10 days after first day)

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 7:30am- 9:00am Breakfast MES Forum

Thurs. + Fri. October 10-11 Autumn Break

Tuesday, October 22 2:30 Grad Student Research MES Forum (Zoom only)

October 25 - November 10 Director Abroad

Friday, October 25, 2024 - Calligraphy Workshop with Dr. Muhammad Habib, from 3:00 to 5:00pm. Register by going to https://nas.io/mesc-osu/events/calligraphy-workshop

Monday, November 11 Veteran's Day

Wed- Friday November 27-29 Thanksgiving and Indigenous People's Day observed

Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 Last Day of Classes | Autumn Full Term, 7-week Session 2

Thursday, December 5, 2024 MESC "Read and Feed" in Hagerty for reading day.

Monday, January 6, 2025 - First Day of classes

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - Christmas for Eastern Christian communities (January 6 is Epiphany)

Friday, February 28th or Saturday, March 1, 2025 - First day of Ramadan

March 30th or 31st 2025 - 'Eid al-Fitr

Friday, March 21, 2025 - Nowruz

Sunday, April 13, 2025 - Passover

Sunday, April 20, 2025 - Easter for Orthodox and Western Christians

Monday, May 26th 2025 (Memorial Day) Folkloric Dance Festival featuring Dabke by internationally known performers. Stay tuned for details!!
If you have a colleague who would like become a member of this forum, or if you would like to manage your subscription, here is the listserve subscription page: go.osu.edu/mescforum<https://go.osu.edu/mescforum>

Thanks! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best wishes,

Melinda



Melinda McClimans, PhD
Assistant Director

The Ohio State University
Office of International Affairs
Middle East Studies Center
145D Enarson Classroom Building
2009 Millikin Rd, Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-6506 Office / 614-974-4331 Mobile
mcclimans.2 at osu.edu<mailto:mcclimans.2 at osu.edu> / mesc.osu.edu.osu.edu<http://mesc.osu.edu.osu.edu/>

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