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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