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Thursday, December 1
1:00 pm
CUMES Workshop (closed)
3:00 pm
I-01
The Future of Political Islam
I-02
The Regional Legacies of the 2006 Lebanon-Israel War
I-03
"Ottomans on the Moon!" Pious Conservatism and Neo-Ottoman Nostalgia in Turkish Popular Culture
I-04
Migration and Displacement in the Late Ottoman Empire
I-05
Symbolic Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey
I-06
Mothers and Matrilineal Lineages in the Early Islamic World
I-07
North African Conceptions of Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
I-08
Gender and the New History of Capitalism in MENA
I-09
20 Years Since 'Rule of Experts': Current Paths in the Study of Technopolitics
I-10
Afterlives of Quarantine: Space, Materiality, and Biopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean
I-11
The One State Paradigm Shift: Emerging Realities and Growing Discrepancies in Israel/Palestine
I-12
In search of Zomia: Non-State Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
I-13
The Sonic, the Social, and the Novel
I-14
Does Middle Eastern Modernism Exist?
I-15
Caring for humans and non-humans in Egypt
I-16
Cyberspace and Social Movements and the Authoritarian Governance of Digital Public Sphere
I-17
Constructing Identity in Ethno-Religious Spaces
I-18
National and Transnational Political Economies
4:00 pm
CUMES Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation
5:30 pm
II-01
Finding Arab Palestine in Israeli Archives
II-02
Big Data and Mega Corpora in the Middle East Studies
II-03
From Middle East Scholar to Global Storyteller: Landing an Agent and a Commercial Book Deal
II-04
Persian and Ottoman Literature: Gender, Rhetoric, and Sexuality
II-05
Ottoman Archaeologies: Actors, Processes, and Epistemologies
II-06
“Affective Authoritarianisms”: Affect, Emotions and Authoritarian Governance in the Arab World and Turkey
II-07
Between Family and State: Children and Youth as Subjects of Concern
II-08
Yemeni Poetry in Perspective
II-09
Transnational Revivals: Middle Eastern Voices in Modern Egyptian Culture
II-10
Safavid Revolution: Conversion, Polemical Encounters, and Sectarian Violence in the Early Modern Middle East
II-11
Contested Culture: Identity Formation, Nationalism, and the State in the Modern Middle East
II-12
Mobilization, Demobilization, and Protest in Jordan
II-13
Post-WWI Political Projects and Resistance experiments in North Africa
II-14
9/11 @ 20: Narrative Legacies and Digital Frontiers in the Global War on Terror
II-15
The Entanglement of Islam and Christianity: Inclusion, Diversity, and Justice
II-16
Politics of Built Space and the Environment
II-17
No Asylum in this Land: Discourses of Trauma, Madness and Mental Health in the Middle East
II-18
Inscribing Lineages and Narrating Selves from Mecca to Melaka
II-19
Rethinking Women's Empowerment in the MENA
Friday, December 2
8:30 am
III-01
Beyond ‘The Club’: New directions in the study of Turkish Jewish lives
III-02
Arab News and its Future Trends
III-03
Statelessness in the Modern Middle East
III-04
Social and Political Life of the Ottoman Empire
III-05
Ottoman and Turkish Environmental Histories in a Global Context
III-06
Sultans of Swings: The Zigzagging of State, Society, and Economy in the New Maghreb
III-07
Weaponized Allegories: The Hermeneutics of Classical Persian Literature and Culture
III-08
The Politics of Multiparty Coalition Governments in the Arab World
III-09
Affective Labor in the Modern Middle East
III-10
Between Family and State: Feminist Critiques of Womanhood in Egypt
III-11
Politicization of Engineering Students at the time of the 1979 Revolution: Aryamehr University of Technology (1966-1979)
III-12
Measuring the Past: Mixed Methods in the Study of Historical Change across the Middle East
III-13
Transnational Anti-Racist Movements
III-14
Literature as Resistance: Social Unrest and Catastrophe
III-15
Security, Surveillance, and Militarization
III-16
Teaching Language with Music and Music with Language: Pedagogical Innovations in Ethnomusicology and Arabic Language Instruction
III-17
al-Azhar and Egyptian Politics
III-18
Recovering Rayy
III-19
Beyond National Literatures: Translation, Exchange, and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
11:00 am
IV-01
The Compassionate Classroom: Teaching Middle East Studies in the Covid Era
IV-02
On Sextarianism
IV-03
Envisioning New Directions and Post-Pandemic Practices for Teaching and Learning in the Field of Turkish and Turkic Languages
IV-04
Professional Development Workshop Proposal Writing and Research Design: How to Fund Your Ideas
IV-05
The Stubborn Persistence of Lines Drawn in the Sand: One Hundred Years of Statehood and What it means to Be Iraqi
IV-06
Food, Animals, Poetry, and Marriage: New Approaches for Studying Individuals and Communities at the Margins of Early Modern Ottoman Social History
IV-07
The Diversity of Ottoman Legal Discourse: Overlapping Property Claims and the Land Regime in the Ottoman Empire
IV-08
Rulers and Scholars in the Premodern Islamic World
IV-09
Gender and Sexuality in the Premodern Islamic World
IV-10
Rethinking Internationalist Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution
IV-11
Race and Racialization in Egypt
IV-12
Occult Bodywork
IV-13
Scripting Change in Saudi Arabia: Narratives and Narrators, Policies and Policymakers
IV-14
Populist Movements and Democracy Formation
IV-15
Language, Culture and Politics in the Interwar Period in the Maghreb
IV-16
History and Future in Palestinian Diaspora Literature
IV-17
Challenges and Perceptions of Diaspora
IV-18
Faith-Based Activism, Charity, and the Maxims of Governance in Contemporary Shi’i Politics
IV-19
Art, Media, and Cultural Imaginations of Dubai
IV-20
Political Economy, Forms of Resistance and Policy Challenges in (Post)Conflict Contexts
IV-21
Narrating Catastrophe and Loss
1:30 pm
V-01
Common Challenges, New Opportunities: Connections between the Middle East and Latin America
V-02
Research Methods, Fieldwork and Publishing under State Scrutiny
V-03
Gender, Capitalism, Law and Empire: A Tribute to Judith Tucker
V-04
The Crisis in Ukraine and the Middle East
V-05
New Trajectories for the Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies
V-06
'Portfolio Capitalism’ and the Ottoman Empire
V-07
Arab Women Filmmakers On The Move: Films, Discourses, Supports, And Transnational Reception
V-08
Maghrib x Mashriq: Gendered Negotiations of Transnational Ties
V-09
Social Movements, Protests and Radical Currents
V-10
Labor Organizations, Leverage, and Capacity
V-11
Medicine, Politics, and Resistance
V-12
Ideologies and Instruments of Nation-State Building
V-13
The Syrian Revolution and the Global War of Narratives
V-14
The Resilience Industry: Resilience Discourse and Cultural Production
V-15
Thinking with Iraq on Climate Change
V-16
Data in the Middle East Classroom
V-17
Politics of Publishing, Censorship, and Translation in post-WWII Arabic Literature
V-18
Music Production and Ethnomusicology
V-19
Decolonial Praxis: Translation and Method in Arabic Studies
4:00 pm
VI-01
Doing Palestinian Ethnography While Palestinian
VI-02
Disability Studies in the Middle East and North Africa: Past, Present, Future
VI-03
Demystifying the Methods of Digital Middle East Projects
VI-04
MESA Publications Workshop
VI-05
Rethinking Ottoman Iraq through Environmental and Medical Histories
VI-06
The "Intimate Other" Practices of Exclusion of non-Turkish members of Late Ottoman Society
VI-07
COVID and Gender: Policies, Strategies, and Impact
VI-08
The Yemeni Crisis and Obstacles Facing Peace Process
VI-09
Restating Capitalism: History, Theory, and Social Transformation in the Middle East and North Africa
VI-10
Pilgrims, Intellectuals, and Activists: Shi’is in the Global History of Ideas and Mobility
VI-11
Contested Borderlands, Contested Subjecthoods: Space, Materiality, and Language
VI-12
Cookbooks and Their Writers: Culinary Diasporas and Middle Eastern Imaginations
VI-13
Strategies of Authoritarian Regimes
VI-14
Reassessing the Role of the Arab League in the 21st Century Arab World
VI-15
The Mind-Bending Poets: the Aesthetics and Development of the khayālbandī Movement in Early Modern Persian Literary History
VI-16
The Pragmatics of Citizenship on the Arabian Peninsula and Beyond
VI-17
Media and Labor in the Middle East
VI-18
Islamic Exegesis and Theology
VI-19
Urban Natures
VI-20
Educational Reform and Adaptation
Saturday, December 3
8:30 am
VII-01
Book Roundtable on This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
VII-02
The Iraq War at Year Twenty
VII-03
Rethinking “Discourse:” New Frequencies for Political and Social Analyses in the Middle East
VII-04
Ottoman Diplomacy
VII-05
Women and Economy in Modern Turkey
VII-06
Talat’s Assassin Speaks: Tehlirian’s Memoir Revisited
VII-07
Integrating Islam in the History of Pre-Modern Europe and the West
VII-08
Teaching the Middle East in Primary and Secondary Education
VII-09
Mobility and Patriarchy in the Mahjar
VII-10
Theory and its Institutions in Modern Intellectual History
VII-11
Transnational Arab Cinema Histories
VII-12
Citizenship, Tribalism and Statehood in Jordan
VII-13
Revolutionary Movements, Civil Society, and Advocacy
VII-14
Gulf Cooperation Council Foreign Policies
VII-15
Arabic Rhetoric, Exegesis, and Interpretation
VII-16
The Making and Unmaking of Health in Precarious Times
VII-17
Islamic Law and Jurisprudence
VII-18
Redistributed Temporalities: Thinking Arab Presenters and Futures through Mediated Pasts
VII-19
Environment, Climate Change, and Urban Planning
11:00 am
VIII-01
Reimagining Sephardic Studies: Perspectives from outside the Fold
VIII-02
Enter the Global Gulf – breaking Free from Regional Particularism
VIII-03
The Maghreb Archiving Project
VIII-04
After the Vote: The Transformative Power of MESA
VIII-05
Translating Status and Privilege in (post-)Ottoman Moments of Transition
VIII-06
Afterlives of Violence: Archival Traces, Survivor Objects, and Affective Experiences in Turkey and Syria
VIII-07
Iran’s Place in the World: Visions and Ambitions in the Last Century
VIII-08
Social Networks, Subjectivities, and Sexualities in the Middle East
VIII-09
Infrastructures of Learning: Authority, Mobility and Nation in the 20th Century Middle East
VIII-10
Reading the Cosmic Scripture: Lettrism from the Thirteenth Century to the Present
VIII-11
Political Uses of Cultural Forms
VIII-12
Racial Categories and Racialized Bodies
VIII-13
Peace History and the Modern Muslim World
VIII-14
Rebel Movements and Insurgencies
VIII-15
When Options are Limited: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa in the Midst of Displacement, Unemployment and Covid-19
VIII-16
Purposes of Arabic Eloquence: Sincerity, Fun, Edification, and Competition
VIII-17
Literature and Identity: Navigating Social Boundaries
VIII-18
What Comes Next for Islam and Modernity?
VIII-19
Muslim Diasporas in North America
VIII-20
Language, Linguistics, and Pedagogy
VIII-21
Representing Violence, Mediating Bodies
3:00 pm
IX-01
Race and White Supremacy in Middle East Studies
IX-02
Officers and Entertainment: Popular Culture and the State in Egypt
IX-03
Reproductive Investments: Bodies, Labor, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
IX-04
The State and its Crises in Iran: The Politics of Managing Change
IX-05
Collaboration, Criticality and Crisis: Producing Knowledge in and on the Arab Region
IX-06
Late Ottoman Communities: Between Intellectualism and Political Action
IX-07
Borders and (Dis)Orders in Turkey's Kurdish Conflict
IX-08
Privileges, Autonomy, and Legal Authority at the Edge of Empire
IX-09
Moving the Margins: How Excavating North African and Middle Eastern Women's Historical Narratives Expands the Archive
IX-10
Premodern Fables and their Audience
IX-11
Global Jewish History, Zionism, and Palestine: Complex Entanglements
IX-12
Religious Reform, Encounters, and Contestations
IX-13
Making and Unmaking the Nation
IX-14
Intervention and Humanitarianism in the Syrian Conflict
IX-15
Poetic Trends and Movements In Post-Revolutionary Iran
IX-16
Rethinking Resistance and Transnationalism in the Middle East and its Diasporas
IX-17
Politics of Photographic Portraiture
IX-18
Currents in Islamist Thought
IX-19
The Creative City in the Arab World
IX-20
Transformations in Gender Culture
IX-21
Patriarchy’s Women: Power, Gender & (Self-) Representation
5:30 pm
X-01
On Digital Ethnography & MENA Landscapes
X-02
Solidarities Across Borders: Teaching and Writing Women, Gender, and Sexuality History in MENA
X-03
Permission to Narrate: Palestine in the American Academy
X-04
The Future of Social Sciences and Humanities in the Arab World
X-05
“Ordinary Ottomans”: Borders, Frontier Effects, and Experiences of the End of Empire
X-06
Fairs And Festivals In Turkey: Transformations From The Early Republic Into The 21st Century
X-07
Alternative Modes and Frameworks of Justice
X-08
Resonances: The Work and Legacy of Etel Adnan (1925-2021)
X-09
The State of Kurdish Studies
X-10
The Long World War I of the Eastern Mediterranean: 1910-1923
X-11
Petrocultures of the Middle East: Textual, Photographic, Cinematic and Literary Representations of Oil
X-12
The Global Nexus of Political Religion and Populism: Comparative Lessons from the Middle East
X-13
Peacebuilding in Muslim Societies: Local Initatives in Conflict Managment
X-14
After Syrian Literature
X-15
Classical Matters: Periodization, Diversity, and Inventiveness
X-16
The Casual Consumption of the Middle East: The Region's (Re-)Construction in Entertainment
X-17
MENA Migrations: State-Diaspora Relations
X-18
Arts, Artifacts and, Iconography
X-19
Marginalization, Dispossession, and Exclusion
X-20
Empire, Health, and Disease in the 19th and 20th century MENA
Sunday, December 4
8:30 am
XI-01
The Politics of Culture in 'New Turkey'
XI-02
West and East and the Problem of History
XI-03
Economic Structures in the Ottoman Empire
XI-04
Being an Ottoman in the Early Modern Era
XI-05
Arabic Instruction and the New Realities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Reflections on Pedagogies
XI-06
Activism, Resistance and Rebellion
XI-07
Global Perspectives on Medieval Middle East
XI-08
Climate, Water, and Ecology
XI-09
Gender and Political Participation
XI-10
Trajectories of Rebel Governance in the Syrian war
XI-11
Anticolonial and Anti-imperial Mobilizations
XI-12
Literary Dissemination and Reception
XI-13
Transnational Networks of Migration
XI-14
Rural-Urban Womanscapes And Fourth Wave Feminism In Morocco
XI-15
The Politics of Media
XI-16
Islamic Law, Theology and Philosophy
XI-17
The Middle East and Beyond
XI-18
Visual Arts, and Images of Nationhood, Legacy, and Memory
XI-19
(Re)producing Rural Life: Critical Agrarian Perspectives of Labor in the MENA
11:00 am
XII-01
Transformation of the Global through 1979
XII-02
Connected Histories of Science, Islam, and the State in the Globalizing Middle East, 18th-20th centuries
XII-03
Shifting Tides in Late Ottoman Times
XII-04
Revisionist Ottoman History: Discoveries in the Archives and Beyond
XII-05
Mapping AKP’s Civilizational Ideology in Turkey
XII-06
Emotional Wellbeing in the MES Classroom: Teaching on the Middle East in Times of Distress
XII-07
Reconceptualizing Knowledge and Narratives
XII-08
Religious and Political Developments in Modern Egypt
XII-09
Wage Labor and Markers of Social Class
XII-10
Contemporary Palestine: Critical Perspectives and Arguments on Control, Autonomy, and Resistance
XII-11
Despair, Decay and Politics of Impasse
XII-12
Rediscovering the Arabic Novel
XII-13
The Reconfiguration of Gender, Violence and Sexuality
XII-14
Cultural Contestations: The Geopolitics and Reception of Turkish TV Dramas
XII-15
The Afterlives of the Arab Spring: Exile and Diaspora Mobilization Post-2011
XII-16
Architecture and Politics of Urban Spaces
XII-17
Literary Translation and Cultural Contact
XII-18
Care Work and Healing Practices
1:30 pm
XIII-01
Ottoman geographical knowledge and the early modern information order in the light of Sayyid `Ali Akbar’s Khataynameh
XIII-02
Captives, Clergymen, Soldiers, Refugees: Mobile Actors and their Accounts on the Transottoman Space
XIII-03
Civilizational Thought in the Islamic Intellectual Field in Turkey
XIII-04
Intellectual Movements in Modern Egypt
XIII-05
The Shifting Terrain of Power and Politics in Iran
XIII-06
A Thumb on the Scale: Exploring the Limits of U.S. Narratives of Neutrality in the Middle East after Camp David
XIII-07
History of Medicine, Health Care, and Collectivism
XIII-08
Constructing, Shifting and Breaching Borders
XIII-09
Managing the Pandemic
XIII-10
Bringing in the Other Islamists – comparing Shia and Sunni Islamism
XIII-11
Armed Conflicts and Ideological Warfare
XIII-12
Literary Narratives, Music, Material Culture
XIII-13
New Models for Citizenship and Statehood
XIII-14
National and Transnational Cinema
XIII-15
Religious Discourse and Identity Construction
XIII-16
Constructing and Challenging Gender Norms
XIII-17
A Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Approach to Developing Advanced Communicative Skills, Multiliteracy and Intercultural Competence: Examples from the Arabic Language Flagship