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Twentieth
Annual Darwin College Lecture Series
2005
Lecture 4 : 11 February
CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Lisa Anderson
Abstract
As a region, the Middle East is both a real place, central to
the modern world as the strategic crossroads of three continents, and
an elusive invention of modern history, with competing claimants and
ambiguous frontiers. Global debates about how identity and community
are to be defined in the modern world are reflected and refracted in
regional political turmoil as competition to define the imaginary
Middle East provokes battles to delineate borders within and beyond
the geographical Middle East. The region's distinctive association
with political turmoil reflects a uniquely vexed relationship between
territorial and communal identities between geography and imagination.
The lectures are given at 5.30 p.m. in The Lady Mitchell Hall,
Sidgwick Avenue, with an adjacent overflow theatre with live TV
coverage. Each lecture is typically attended by 600 people so you
must arrive early to ensure a place.
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