PATH+

Active Focal Group

PATH+ is a DLCL focal group that is considering new directions for Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Hebrew languages, literatures, and cultures.

In 2025-2026, this group is run by Professor Alexander Key and Hevin Karakurt.

See our Colloquy in Arcade: Comparing Literatures: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Urdu

 

 

Faculty Chairs

Graduate Chairs

Upcoming Events

May
21

PATH+: Conference: Refusal(s) and Kurdish Literature

Date
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 7:00am - Friday, May 22, 2026, 12:00pm

Past Events

May
13

PATH+: A.J. Naddaff: The Making of Modern Arabic: “Aḥmad” Faris al-Shidyāq and Language Politics in the Ottoman Nineteenth Century

Date
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
April
16

Spatial Symbolism and the Politics of Space: Language, History, and Power

Date
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 10:00am - 12:30pm
April
14

From the Sky to the Underground: Colonial Spatial Warfare and Palestinian Counter-Geographies

Date
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
April
1

PATH+: Myungin Sohn: Selections from Ibn Jinnī's Khaṣāʾiṣ

Date
Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
March
31

PATH+: Peter Adamson: Logic, Language, and Assent in Islamic Philosophy

Date
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
February
25

PATH+: Shaj Mathew : The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time

Date
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
January
20

PATH+: Clémence Scalbert-Yücel: Politics, Languages, and Gender: Reflexions on the Kurdish Literary Field

Date
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
November
18

PATH+: Suleiman Hodali: Crusading, Orientalism, and the Geographies of Modern Arabic Philology

Date
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
November
4

PATH+: Jad Kiadan: Decolonization without Desoulment: Reconsidering Iḥsān within the Palestinian Condition

Date
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
April
29

Migration and the Transnational Development of Palestinian Political Consciousness in the Early 20th Century | Nadim Bawalsa

Date
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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