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Thursday, December 1

1:00 pm

CUMES Workshop (closed)

3:00 pm

I-01 The Future of Political Islam

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-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-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

I-19 The Woman, Life, Freedom Protests in Iran

4:00 pm

CUMES Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation

5:30 pm

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-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-04 Professional Development Workshop Proposal Writing and Research Design: How to Fund Your Ideas

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-18 Music Production and Ethnomusicology

V-19 Decolonial Praxis: Translation and Method in Arabic Studies

V-20 Professional Development Workshop: Careers for Middle East Experts at the US Department of State

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 in 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-18 Islamic Exegesis and Theology

VI-19 Urban Natures

VI-20 Educational Reform and Adaptation

Saturday, December 3

1:15 pm

MESA Members Meeting

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 Global Academy Workshop: Constraints on Politics, Education, and the Economy: Dispatches from the Region

VII-05 Ottoman Diplomacy

VII-06 Women and Economy in Modern Turkey

VII-07 Talat’s Assassin Speaks: Tehlirian’s Memoir Revisited

VII-08 Integrating Islam in the History of Pre-Modern Europe and the West

VII-09 Teaching the Middle East in Primary and Secondary Education

VII-10 Mobility and Patriarchy in the Mahjar

VII-11 Theory and its Institutions in Modern Intellectual History

VII-12 Transnational Arab Cinema Histories

VII-13 Citizenship, Tribalism and Statehood in Jordan

VII-14 Revolutionary Movements, Civil Society, and Advocacy

VII-15 Gulf Cooperation Council Foreign Policies

VII-16 Arabic Rhetoric, Exegesis, and Interpretation

VII-17 The Making and Unmaking of Health in Precarious Times

VII-18 Islamic Law and Jurisprudence

VII-19 Redistributed Temporalities: Thinking Arab Presents and Futures through Mediated Pasts

VII-20 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-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 Religious Reform, Encounters, and Contestations

IX-12 Making and Unmaking the Nation

IX-13 Intervention and Humanitarianism in the Syrian Conflict

IX-14 Poetic Trends and Movements In Post-Revolutionary Iran

IX-15 Rethinking Resistance and Transnationalism in the Middle East and its Diasporas

IX-16 Politics of Photographic Portraiture

IX-17 Currents in Islamist Thought

IX-18 The Creative City in the Arab World

IX-19 Transformations in Gender Culture

IX-20 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

XI-20 Global Jewish History, Zionism, and Palestine: Complex Entanglements

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 The Nation, the Taliban, and Authoritarianism: Developments in Afghanistan

XII-04 Shifting Tides in Late Ottoman Times

XII-05 Revisionist Ottoman History: Discoveries in the Archives and Beyond

XII-06 Civilizationism and Islamic Decolonial Thought in Turkey - 1

XII-07 Emotional Wellbeing in the MES Classroom: Teaching on the Middle East in Times of Distress

XII-08 Reconceptualizing Knowledge and Narratives

XII-09 Religious and Political Developments in Modern Egypt

XII-10 Wage Labor and Markers of Social Class

XII-11 Contemporary Palestine: Critical Perspectives and Arguments on Control, Autonomy, and Resistance

XII-12 Despair, Decay and Politics of Impasse

XII-13 Rediscovering the Arabic Novel

XII-14 The Reconfiguration of Gender, Violence and Sexuality

XII-15 Cultural Contestations: The Geopolitics and Reception of Turkish TV Dramas

XII-16 The Afterlives of the Arab Spring: Exile and Diaspora Mobilization Post-2011

XII-17 Architecture and Politics of Urban Spaces

XII-18 Literary Translation and Cultural Contact

XII-19 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 Civilizationism and Islamic Decolonial Thought in Turkey-2

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

Wednesday, December 7

12:00 pm

XIV-01 Envisioning New Directions and Post-Pandemic Practices for Teaching and Learning in the Field of Turkish and Turkic Languages