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Thursday, November 2

3:00 pm

I-1 Locality and the Production of Knowledge in the Long Nineteenth Century: Extending Connections Across Middle East Studies and History of Science

I-2 Decolonial Feminist Praxis: The Question of Voice and Community

I-3 From Colonial Finance to Financialization: Concepts, Methodologies, and Research Questions

I-4 Palestine and the Rhetoric of Human Rights

I-5 Higher Education amidst War and Revolution: University and Radical Pedagogy in Northeast Syria

I-6 MENA as Carceral States

I-7 Exploring the Inspirations and Ambitions Behind “Woman, Life, Liberty”

I-8 Islamists in Government

I-9 Narrating Premodern Islamic Diplomacy: Imperial Strategy or Authorial Agency?

I-10 Mamluk Arabic Literature, or New Wine in Old Bottles

I-11 Premodern Fables in a Comparative Frame

I-12 The Sisi Regime and the Limits of Authoritarian Upgrading in Egypt

I-13 Rethinking Jewish Migration to and from the Middle East and North Africa

I-14 Protest Politics and Social Transformation in the Late Ottoman Empire

I-15 Digital Technologies and the Transition in Arab Media and Arab Cultural Debates

I-16 Children, Family, and State: Evolving Conceptions of Childhood in the Ottoman Empire

I-17 De-exceptionalizing the Arabian Peninsula: Pirates, Pilgrims, Archives

I-18 Ottoman Social and Environmental Engineering in the Long Nineteenth Century

I-19 Redefining Subjectivities in the Maghreb: Memory, Performance, Politics

I-20 Topics in Transnational Studies of the Middle East

I-21 Social Transformations in the Gulf: Identity and Belonging

I-22 Gender Entanglements and Neoliberal Imperatives

I-23 Death, Love and Protest in Iran

I-24 The Maghreb between the Local and Global: Tourism, Informal Economies, and the Politics of Sports

I-25 Employment and Labor Relations in the MENA

I-26 Racializing Arab Cultures

I-27 Faith and Representation

I-28 Culture and Nationalism

I-29 MESA Publications Workshop 2023

4:00 pm

I-30 Undergraduate Research Workshop's Poster Session

5:30 pm

II-1 Dynamics of Disruption: Ethnographic Practice in Contemporary Turkey

II-2 Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Middle East: Knowledge Production in the Contemporary Moment

II-3 Arabic Glitch: On the Negotiation of Digital Space for Hegemony and Resistance

II-4 Pedagogies of Genocide: Critical and Comparative Approaches to Mass Atrocity and Political Violence in the Middle East

II-5 Reassembling the Pieces: Settler Colonialism and the Reconception of Palestinian Health

II-6 The Politics of Reproduction in the MENA—Birth, Midwifery, Illegal Mothers, and Abandoned Children

II-7 Visual and Aural Histories of (De)Colonization in North Africa

II-8 The Rojava Experiment in Post-Conflict Northern Syria

II-9 The Shatat and the Literary Imagination

II-10 The Yemeni Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges for Peace

II-11 Environmental Crisis and Political Movements in MENA & the Indian Ocean World

II-12 Under the Hammer: Trafficking, Trading, and Salvaging the Middle Eastern and North African Written Heritage

II-13 Baha’i History, Texts, and Contexts

II-14 Reflections on Palestine Advocacy in Canada

II-15 Taking It Over: Civil Servants and Informal Agents as (Inter)faces of the Everyday State

II-16 Translation as Archive: Documenting Cross-Cultural Contact in Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Histories

II-17 Art, Performance, and Power in Modern Egypt

II-18 North Africa and the Balkans: Towards A Connected History of Two Ottoman Regions

II-19 MENA as Carceral States II

II-20 Contested Histories of (Ottoman) Slavery and Race in Turkey

II-21 New Horizons in the 21st Century Gulf’s Cultural Production

II-22 Politics of Urban Reconstruction in Syria and Turkey

II-23 Conceptualizing the Social in the Late and Post-Ottoman World

II-24 State Power and Social Order in the Early Modern Era

II-25 Discourses and Practices of Scientific Development in the Twentieth Century

II-26 Science, Prophecy, and the Occult from the 10th to 12th Centuries

II-27 Iran: Political Conflict and Regional Power

II-28 Borders and Borderlands: The New Politics of the Middle East

II-29 Debating Islamic Law: Imams, Intellectuals, and Salafists

II-30 Institutions and Actors in Diverse Polities

II-31 Understanding Anti-Black and Anti-Arab Racism from a Comparative Perspective

Friday, November 3

8:30 am

III-1 Teaching 9/11 and the Global War on Terror at the Undergraduate Level

III-2 The October 1973 War at 50: Legacies of Regional Militarization, Oil Politics, and US Hegemony at the Dawn of Neoliberalism

III-3 Loss, Recovery, and Community Engagement: Archiving the MENA

III-4 Digital Humanities: Creating Big Data Sets and Ensuring Their Reuse into the Future

III-5 Officially Silenced Narratives in Republican Turkey

III-6 Packrats and Hoarders of Arabic Literature

III-7 Alternative Sovereignties

III-8 Representing Revolution, Revolutionary Representations: Visual Activism about Palestine from the 1960s to the Digital Age

III-9 “Wake Work” and Revolution: Dilemmas of Mourning, Memory, and Contested Futures

III-10 Epics and Narratives in Medieval Turco-Persianate Culture

III-11 The Caucasus within the Ottoman World

III-12 Commodified Ruins & Broken Promises: Development, Violence and Contestation in the Age of Tourism

III-13 Negotiating Iranian Identity: Between Prescriptions & Subscriptions of Belonging

III-14 At the Edges of Lebanon: Communities and the Spatial Politics of Infrastructural Development

III-15 Slavery and Its Legacies in the Modern Arabic Novel

III-16 Over, Under, and Around the State: Accessing Social Services in Turkey

III-17 After the Armageddon: Ottoman Military, Intellectuals, and Press, 1918-1923

III-18 Scales of Migration: Knowledge Production in the Middle East and Its Global Linkages

III-19 In Honor of Franklin Lewis I: Ghazal Poetics

III-20 Mobility, Movement, and Belonging Across Borders

III-21 Images in Islam: Past and Present

III-22 Varieties of Slavery and Unfreedom in Medieval Islamic History

III-23 Colonization and Decolonization in Israel / Palestine

III-24 State, Citizenship, and Identities

III-25 Queer Politics and Subjectivities

III-26 Democratic Backsliding in Tunisia

III-27 Geopolitics and the Struggle for the Middle East: The U.S., Russia and China

III-28 Theorizing Islamism(s): New Methods and Perspectives

III-29 Climate Change, The Environment, and Natural Disasters

III-30 Women’s Work in the Middle East and Beyond: Critical Junctures

11:00 am

IV-1 Rewriting Histories and Narratives from the Arab Region: Alternative Archives, Marginalized Voices

IV-2 Lebanese Studies: Current Stakes, Future Possibilities, and Ethical Commitments

IV-3 Queer/Trans Critique of Middle East Studies

IV-4 Histories of Capitalism and Race in the Middle East and Indian Ocean

IV-5 Collaborative Field Building in Amazigh/Berber Studies: Academia and Community in North Africa

IV-6 Early Republican History One Hundred Years after 1923

IV-7 The Decline of Rise: Re-examining the Ottoman Rise Paradigm

IV-8 Finding Meaning in 2 Billion Words of Arabic Books

IV-9 Middle Eastern Diaspora: US Multiethnic and Multiracial Collaborations

IV-10 Popularizing Folklore, Folklorizing the Popular: Memory, Co-optation, and Commodification in Moroccan Music

IV-11 Materiality & Documentary Culture in the Early Islamic World

IV-12 Energy, Rivalry, and Insecurity in the Middle East

IV-13 Demystifying the Middle East in the Undergraduate Classroom through Virtual Exchanges

IV-14 Ecocritical Terrains: Rethinking Tamazghan and Middle Eastern Landscapes

IV-15 At the Intersection of Health and Gender in the Middle East in the Midst of Military, Economic and Natural Disasters

IV-17 Authority in and of Islam: Manifestations and Contestations

IV-18 Iran and the Struggle for "Normalcy": Woman, Life, Freedom

IV-19 Digital Divides and Censored Stories: Contemporary Challenges to Arab Media Access

IV-20 In Honor of Franklin Lewis II: Persian and Other Literatures: Multilingualism and Translation

IV-21 Between Democratization and Authoritarian Resurgence: The Future of Political Islam in the Maghreb

IV-22 Forms of Refusal and Reshaping the Urban in Middle Eastern Cities

IV-23 Anti-Colonial Resistance Across the Arab Gulf

IV-24 Queer Artistic and Cultural Practices of Southwest Asia North Africa

IV-25 Islamic Thought, Texts, and Modernity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

IV-26 Governance and Citizenship in the Late Ottoman Empire

IV-27 Doing Fieldwork in the MENA Region

IV-28 Courts and Constitutional Law in MENA

IV-29 Ritual and Faith

IV-30 Writing as/for activism

1:30 pm

V-1 Yassin al-Haj Saleh: Reflections on Revolution and the Struggle for Democracy in Syria

V-2 Finding Palestine in Israeli Archives

V-3 Armenians, Kurds, and the Politics of Ottoman Historiography

V-4 Demystifying the Middle East in the Classroom through Literature and Film

V-5 Ethnographic Research in Middle Eastern Cities: Challenges, Possibilities, and Pathways

V-6 New Afghanistan Studies in/and Middle Eastern Studies: Archives, Themes, and Approaches

V-7 From the Womb to the Tomb: Birth, Disease, Sex, and Death in the Modern Middle East

V-8 US-Gulf Cultures of Empire

V-9 Tunisian Democracy in Crisis

V-10 The Ottoman Empire as Sea Power: Maritime Activities and Technologies (15th – 18th Centuries) Seen from the Transottoman Perspective

V-11 Refugee Migration and the Middle East: Revisiting Theoretical Frameworks

V-12 Cultural Hubs in the Arab Region

V-13 Rethinking Turkey: Politics of Method and Analysis of the Republic’s First Century

V-14 Imagining New Worlds in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Two Waves of Arab Uprisings

V-15 Race in the Maghrib and the Arabian Peninsula – Comparisons, Connections, Contestations

V-16 Perso-Mongol Experimentation and the History of (Occult) Science

V-17 Muslim-Jewish Convergence in North Africa: 1934-1962

V-18 Unwinding Empires: Crisis Management and Fantasies of Power in the Late Colonial Middle East

V-19 Unearthing Capitalism: Social-Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction and Resistance

V-20 From Gaza to Ottawa: Transnational Palestine in the Cold War Era

V-21 Law, Finance, and Knowledge Production in the Early Ottoman Era

V-22 Orthodoxy and Literary Innovation: Science, Religion, and Poetry

V-23 Lebanon: Violence, Sectarianism, and Resistance

V-24 Gender and Power Relations in MENA

V-25 Protests and Their Discontents: Managing Protests through Repression and Reform

V-26 Technology, Media and Autocratic Resilience

V-27 Authoritarian Survival Strategies

V-28 Public Opinion and Participation in MENA Countries

V-29 The Making of Modern Arabic Literature

V-30 Disciplinary Epistemologies

V-31 Comparative Insights on Uprisings and Protests

V-32 Multi-Dimensional Threats to Academic Freedom

VII-31 The State of Academic Freedom in Iran

4:00 pm

VI-1 Revisiting the Arab Sixties

VI-2 Late Ottoman Migration

VI-3 Roundtable on Gender, Nation, Emigration and the State: A Tribute to Laurie Brand

VI-4 Conducting Fieldwork on Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa

VI-5 Teaching Turkish in North America on the Centennial of the Republic

VI-6 Rethinking Critical Security Studies

VI-7 Individualizing a Mass Medium: Key Figures in Arab-World Radio Broadcasting, 1930s-1950s

VI-8 Revoicing Resistance in Yemen

VI-9 Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries: Intellectual History in the Middle East, 1200–1500

VI-10 Land Tenure, Land Use and Agriculture in the Mamluk Era and Beyond

VI-12 Architectures of Conflict: Repression and Resistance in Securitized Middle Eastern Cities

VI-13 Navigating the Complexities of Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Arab Spring Countries Syria and Yemen

VI-14 Between the Living and the Dead: The Afterlives of War East of the Mediterranean

VI-15 Mutations of the Archive in Times of Rupture

VI-16 The Role of Cultural Exchanges and Connections in the Making of Iran and the Persianate World, from Delhi to Samarqand and the Persian Gulf (16th c.-present)

VI-17 Frontier Effects in North Africa: Centering Margins and Borderlands

VI-18 Muslim Maritime Violence in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (650-1650)

VI-19 A Global-Microhistorical Study of the 17th-Century Mediterranean World: The Armenian Brothers, Hasan Agha and Anton Çelebi

VI-20 Teaching Palestine: Resistance Memories, Living Archives & Pedagogical Praxis

VI-21 Children, Women, and Sexuality in the Late Ottoman Empire

VI-22 Seeding the Turkish Republic: From Sunflowers to Stray Cats

VI-23 Policing Labour and Migration

VI-24 Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The Crises of Humanitarianism, Climate Change, and Refugees

VI-25 Women's Movements and Activism

VI-26 Gulf Studies: Advances and Shortcomings

VI-27 Mongolia and Central Asia

VI-28 Digital Spheres

VI-29 Visual Archives: Memory, Play, and War

VI-30 Experimental Pedagogies

VI-31 Knowing the World: Bringing Middle East Studies into the K-12 Classroom

Saturday, November 4

8:30 am

VII-1 Writing Beyond the Academy: Securing an Agent and a Commercial Book Deal

VII-2 Interdisciplinary Transgressions: Liberatory Palestinian Scholarship and Praxis

VII-3 Beyond Case Study and Exception: the Middle East and North Africa

VII-4 Exploring Revolution and Its Others - Counterrevolution, Cooptation, and Counterinsurgency - As Projects of Social Change

VII-5 The Treaty of Lausanne at 100: New Research from the Lausanne Project

VII-6 Sovereign Bodies From the Balkans to Bengal

VII-7 Late Ottoman History of Palestine

VII-8 The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Historical Antecedents, Literary Production, and Religious Humanitarianism

VII-9 Crime in the City: Urbanization and Criminalization in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

VII-10 Authoritarian Control and Public Attitudes

VII-11 The Law Is the Law, Sometimes: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Approaches to Legal Studies in and on the Middle East

VII-12 Waiting for Water: Negotiating Water, Land, and Life in Morocco

VII-13 New Directions in the History and Politics of Labor in Lebanon

VII-14 The Removal of Doubts: Producing Natural Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire

VII-15 At the Edges of the Communal in the Eastern Mediterranean

VII-16 On the Edge: Post-Conflict Political Generations of Women and Youth Activists in the ‘Second Wave’ of the Arab Spring

VII-17 Childrenʼs Incarceration in Modern Egypt

VII-18 “Now We All Live in Saddam’s World:” The Regional Legacies of the US Invasion of Iraq

VII-19 Tracing Transnational Indigenous Expression in Amazigh Cinema

VII-20 Revisiting the Gulf’s Anti-Imperialist Currents in the Twentieth Century

VII-21 Politics of Gender and Desire in the Persian Qasida

VII-22 Re-linking Arabic Instruction with Its Socio-cultural Environment: New Challenges and Opportunities

VII-24 Gender, Law, and Non-normativity in Egypt, Turkey and the Caucasus

VII-25 Colonialism and Its Discontents in Modern Iran

VII-26 Environmental Degradation and Activism

VII-27 Legacies of Revolution and Counterrevolution

VII-28 Resisting Occupation in Palestine

VII-29 The Human, Non-Human and Dystopian Representation

VII-30 Staging Performance and Music

11:00 am

VIII-1 Academic Freedom and the Israel/Palestine Conflict: Lessons from the Kenneth Roth Scandal at Harvard

VIII-2 Professional Development Workshop—Proposal Writing and Research Design: How to Fund Your Ideas

VIII-3 Bridging the Gap: A Decade of Human Rights in MENA, Navigating Pathways and Hurdles to Collaborations within Academia

VIII-4 SWANA Contributions to Feminist Theory

VIII-5 Writing Syrian History in Times of Disaster

VIII-6 Reflections on the Global Refugee System

VIII-7 Adaptation of European, Canadian, and American Proficiency Guidelines in the Middle Eastern Language Classes

VIII-8 Acoustic Ecologies of the Middle East: Current Conditions and Prospects

VIII-9 World Cup Qatar 2022: Transnational Solidarity, Palestine, and Anti-Muslim Bias 

VIII-10 The Politics of Literary Disputations and Debates in Classical and Medieval Arabic Literature

VIII-11 "Now is the Turn of the East": Pan-Easternism in the Middle East and Asia

VIII-12 Entering and Exiting Transregional Medico-Legal Borders across the Twentieth Century

VIII-13 Religion and Politics in the Pre-modern Maghrib

VIII-14 War and Revolution in the Middle East

VIII-15 “What’s In a Name?”: Lexicons of Exclusion and (Post-)Ottoman Communities

VIII-16 Ottoman Immigration to the Americas – New Approaches, New Sources

VIII-17 A Gender Perspective on Secularization and Modernization

VIII-18 The Story of Resilience and Resistance Among Azerbaijanis in Iran

VIII-19 Arab Revolutionaries' Paths through Defeat

VIII-20 New Perspectives on Slavery, Abolition, and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman World and Beyond

VIII-21 Back to the Future? Reinventions of Security States and Resistance Across the Tumultuous Contemporary Maghreb and Sahel

VIII-22 Microhistories of Arab Internationalism: The Lebanese National Movement

VIII-23 The Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising: A Turning Point in the Struggles for Justice and Liberty in Iran

VIII-24 Textual Innovation and Transgression from Iberia to Iran

VIII-25 18th Century Scholarship and Historiographical Debates

VIII-26 Geographies of Domination and Dispossession in Palestine

VIII-27 Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East

VIII-28 State Building: Law, Surveying, and Boundary Making

VIII-29 The Politics of Trade and Investment in the New Gulf

VIII-30 Trends in Arab Politics

3:00 pm

IX-1 Centering Sudan: the Revolution, the War, the Future

IX-2 Gender Studies and Feminism at MESA: Taking Stock of the Field

IX-3 Threats to Academic Freedom in the Middle East

IX-4 Environmental Anthropology and the Middle East

IX-5 Imagining the East: Researching and Writing Transnational Affinity, Solidarity, and Belonging during the Interwar Years

IX-6 Settler Colonial Violence, Palestine, and White Supremacy

IX-7 Practical Pedagogies of Engagement: Building Intercultural Understanding Through Concrete Activities

IX-8 Arab Faces, American Places

IX-9 Beyond Paradoxes and Contradictions: Forms of Anti-Colonial Resistance during WWI in North Africa and the Middle East

IX-10 Imagining New Authorial Configurations in Persianate Sufism

IX-11 Formulating Modernism through Museums and Exhibitions in the MENA Region

IX-12 Contested Archives: The Reopening of the Kanan Makiya Papers

IX-13 Power, Language, and Identity in MENA Contexts

IX-14 Property Disputes, Dispossession and Processes of Marginalization in North Africa

IX-15 (Re-)drawing the Margin(s) - Investigating Marginality in Jordan, Lebanon, and North and East Syria

IX-16 Frontiers in the Studies of Middle East Contentious Politics

IX-17 Trade, Diplomacy and Finance in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

IX-18 The Meaning of China’s Increased Engagement in the Middle East

IX-19 How Islamists Cope with Football: Qatar as a Transformative Event?

IX-20 Border(land)s of the Ottoman Empire

IX-21 Anticommunism in Cold War Turkey

IX-22 Haunted Futurities: Cases from the Arab Gulf States

IX-23 The Determinants of Compliance: COVID-19 in the MENA

IX-24 Diplomacy, Diplomats, and Forgotten Records

IX-25 The Strategies and Dynamics of Israeli Occupation in Palestine

IX-26 Language and Libraries

IX-27 Feminist and Queer Literature

IX-28 TV, Film, and Theater

5:30 pm

X-1 Middle East Migration Studies: Roads Travelled and Future Paths

X-2 Queering the Question: Rethinking Middle East Studies through Queer Methodologies

X-3 MESA’s BDS Vote and the Question of Palestine

X-4 It’s Complicated: Cultural Memory and Hope in Impermanent Landscapes

X-5 Archiving Iran in/of the Diaspora

X-6 Ecocritical Perspectives in Arabic Literary Studies

X-7 Vegetal Vectors: Plants and Plant-Knowledge in Middle East History

X-8 Mobility and Agency in Contemporary Yemeni Diaspora

X-9 Educating an Empire: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Schooling in the Nineteenth Century

X-10 Marginalized Spaces of Action: Leisure, Humor, and Deviance as Social Protest in the Ottoman World

X-11 New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey

X-12 On Madhhabs, Salafis, and Dalil: Rethinking Reform and Law in the Contemporary Islamic World

X-13 Debating Public Knowledge in Modern Egypt

X-14 AATT Panel in Memory of Walter G. Andrews

X-15 Jews at Sea

X-16 Byzantine Legacies of the Ottoman Long Nineteenth Century

X-18 Spotlights on Shīʿī Esotericism from Umayyad Iraq to Fatimid Cairo

X-19 The Dynamics and Consequences of Power-Sharing in the Middle East

X-20 Palestine and Constellations of Indigeneity

X-21 In/Visible Accumulations: Spatial Production and the Erosion of National(ist) Mythologies

X-22 From Empire to Republic: Open Wounds, Survival, and Revolt

X-23 Cold War Legacies in the MIddle East

X-24 Islamic Sciences, Medicine, and Health

X-25 MENA in the New International Order: The Politics of Interests, Norms, and Shifting Alliances

X-26 Palestine and Literature

X-27 Best Practices in Pedagogy

X-28 Drama and Story

X-29 Logic and Literature in Early Times

Sunday, November 5

8:30 am

XI-1 The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power: Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century

XI-2 Reorienting the Middle East: The Gulf as Method between Area and Film/Media Studies

XI-3 Memory Studies Beyond Nationalism in the Arab World(s)

XI-4 Indigenous Theories and Contemporary SWANA Studies

XI-5 Alt-Ac and Graduate School: A Conversation about Bringing Alt-Ac into the Graduate School Experience

XI-6 Mediated Revolutions: Gender and Protest in Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq

XI-7 Power, Place, and Space: Ethnographies in and of Jordan

XI-8 How Poetry Revolts: Islamicate Traditions of Poetic Revolution

XI-9 Past and Present Leaderships in the Arabian Peninsula. Historical and Conceptual Approaches

XI-10 The "Crisis of Man" in Modern Arabic Thought

XI-11 Palestinian Revolutionary Becoming: Building Movement, Relations, and Praxis

XI-12 Memories and Archives of Revolution: Kurdistan and Palestine

XI-13 Citizenship and Denizenship in Monarchies and Republics in MENA 2000-2020

XI-14 Carceral Geographies and Histories: Detention, Displacement, Deportation

XI-15 The Arab World on Display: The 1930s Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem and Beyond

XI-16 Entangled Histories of Family in the Late Ottoman Empire

XI-17 In the Name of God: Debating Divine Attributes in the Post-Classical Islamic East

XI-18 Time Frames: Art as an Embodied Practice of Time from an Anthropological Perspective

XI-19 Writing the Self: Biography, Autobiography, and the Work of Fiction

XI-20 Pathways toward Increased Sociolinguistic Competence in Arabic

XI-21 Egypt at Turn of the 20th Century: Community and Identity, Subject Formation

XI-22 Racial Exclusion and Assimilation Across Boundaries

XI-23 Spatiality and Urban Development

XI-24 Specters of Economic Growth: Trade, Banking, and National Development

XI-25 Authoritarianization and Responses in Turkey

XI-26 Neoliberalism and the Dynamics of Resistance in Post-Welfare Autocracies

XI-27 Precarity and Mutual Aid in Lebanon and Iraq

XI-28 Disappearances and Visual Politics

XI-29 Visions from Archaeology and Antiquity

XI-30 Faith and Fine Art in Early Periods

XI-31 Human Rights, Gender, & Citizenship in the Middle East

11:00 am

XII-1 Recovering the Politics of Kuwait: From Regional Margins to the Theoretical Mainstream

XII-2 Russian-Arab Worlds: New Sources and Angles

XII-3 New Approaches to the Political Economy and Environmental History of Ottoman Greater Syria

XII-4 Sports, Resistance, and Inter-National Solidarity: The Case of Palestine

XII-5 MENA Cities in Literature and Film

XII-6 Politics and Cultures of Midwifery: Epistemologies, Expertise, and Praxes

XII-7 Subcultures and Underworlds of the Early 20th Century

XII-8 Writing Medieval Middle Eastern History through Geniza Documents I: Islamic Legal Institutions and Arabic Material Instruments

XII-9 Ethics from the Margins: Ethical Decision-Making, Performance, and Identity Practices Amongst Marginalized Groups in the Middle East

XII-10 Finding Child and Youth Migrants in Ottoman and Egyptian History

XII-11 Iran in the Middle East - “An Accident of Geography”? Iranian Interactions with a Contested Term of Regional Ascription during the 20th Century

XII-12 Arabic Petrofictions

XII-13 Exhibiting Ottoman Modernities on Stage (1839-1922)

XII-14 Biographies Across Borders: New Approaches to Writing Life Stories into History

XII-15 Exploring Inclusive Teaching Methodologies in S.W.A.N.A. Studies

XII-16 Egyptian Stagecraft – Rule by Appearance, Spectacles and Image Projection

XII-17 The Crises of Nation-State System in the Middle East: Imaginaries, Practices, Structures

XII-18 Mamluk Studies: Language, Poetics, Politics

XII-19 Travelogues and Intellectual Networks across the Modern Middle East and Its Diasporas

XII-20 Transnational Approaches to Islam

XII-21 Revisiting Middle Eastern Political Thought

XII-22 Displacement, Ethnicity and the Politics of Exclusion in Turkey

XII-23 Space, Cities, and Urban Transformations

XII-24 The Making and Unmaking of Sovereignty/ies: Past and Present

XII-25 Contesting Boundaries of "Citizenship": Diasporas, Migrant Workers and Human Rights

XII-26 Prophethood

XII-27 Traversing the World

XII-28 Writings in Afghanistan and Persia

1:30 pm

XIII-1 Arabic Choral Music: Navigating the Challenges and Questions Encountered while Learning and Teaching the Repertoire

XIII-2 The Religion of the Old Women of Nishapur

XIII-3 A Moveable Past? Social Uses of the Ottoman Past in the Post-Ottoman World

XIII-4 Writing Medieval Middle Eastern History through Geniza Documents II: Trade, Commodities and Unfree Labor

XIII-5 Labor and Racialization in the Contemporary Middle East

XIII-6 The Return of the State: Revisiting State Formation in the 20th Century Gulf

XIII-7 The SWANA Region through the Lens of History and Photography: Possibilities, Uses and Issues of Visual Archive

XIII-8 Living with the State in Egypt

XIII-9 Muslim Pilgrimage, Borderlands, and Barriers since the 1600s

XIII-10 New Manuscripts from/about the Middle East: Exploring Digital, Media, and Cultural Changes

XIII-11 The World in a Word: the Politics of (Un)Translation in Middle Eastern Studies

XIII-12 Decentering the Conquests: Peoples, Regions, and Identities in the Early Islamic Conquests

XIII-13 New Legal Histories of the Late Ottoman Empire

XIII-14 Modern Arabic Exilic Literature: Fractured Subjectivities and Belonging

XIII-15 Surviving Traces, Traces of Survival: Critical Interventions from within Armenian Studies

XIII-16 Middle Eastern Studies in the Age of GPT

XIII-17 Western Indian Ocean Worlds: Imperial Legacies, Economic Networks, New Geographies

XIII-18 Decolonizing the Maghreb: Everyday Life, Labor, and Violence

XIII-19 New Approaches to Studying and Teaching Islamicate History

XIII-20 Questioning Religious Belonging in the Diaspora

XIII-21 Education and Youth Identities

XIII-22 Performance and Communication in Turkey and Iran

XIII-23 Regional Cooperation and Foreign Relations in the Middle East

XIII-24 Sexuality and Reproductive Rights

XIII-25 New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Authoritarian Persistence

XIII-26 Rumi

XIII-27 Gender and Artistic Expression in Protest Movements