2009 MESA Annual Meeting Program Search Result ( Sessions )
Full Program by Date and Time (Total: 231) | B A C K |
Saturday, 11/21/09
- 5:00pm Session I
- [P2193] Aesthetics of Citizenship in Post-Socialist Egypt
- [P2118] Between Post-Revivalism and Post-Islamism: Contemporary Politico-Religious Discourses in Iran
- [P2277] Contested Identities in the Ottoman Sphere
- [P2045] Democratic Elections in Iraq: From Theory to Legal and Political Reality
- [P2229] Family, Medicine, and the State
- [P2224] Geopolitics
- [P2255] Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Medieval Period
- [P1982] Legislating Muslim Women's Rights: Progress and Challenges
- [P2169] Metaphors of Space in Contemporary Maghrebi-French Cinema
- [P2196] National Places and Colonized Spaces: The Contest for Jerusalem over the last 100 Years
- [P2002] New Approaches to the Rentier State
- [P2069] New Directions in the History of Women in Nineteenth Century Iran
- [P2003] Ottoman Legacies and National Memories: Turkey and the Arab World
- [P2145] Ottoman Minority Diasporas in New England: Community Formation and Evolution
- [P2140] Researching Pedagogical Tools for AFL Classes
- [P2072] Situating Slavery in the Context of the Nineteenth-Century Middle East
- [C2212] The Politics of Culture in Present-Day Syria
- [P2222] The Private Business Elite
- 5:00pm Session I
Sunday, 11/22/09
- 8:30am Session II
- [P2105] Algerian Politics and the Politics of ‘Algeria’: Power, Knowledge and Representation
- [P2120] Becoming Kurdish: A Century of Making a Nation
- [P2030] Between Public Memory and National Narrative: The Visual Document and History in the Middle East
- [P2110] Challenges and Prospects for Economic and Social Stability in Post-Invasion Iraq
- [P2114] Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Restructuring of Labour Markets in the Middle East
- [P2083] Contesting/Negotiating the European Union in the Turkish Context, Part I
- [P2188] Globalism, Techno-Politics, and Resistance: Exploring "Actually Existing" Neoliberalism in the MENA
- [P2055] Ibn Asakir in Medieval Arabic Historiography
- [P2262] Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
- [P2017] Law and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: From Center to Periphery
- [P2156] Mastering Nature: Colonial Regimes and Environmental Policies
- [P2218] Muslim Communities in Europe and North America
- [R2124] New Media, the Middle East, and President Obama
- [P2268] Orientalism
- [P2084] Political Film in the Middle East and the Maghreb
- [P2029] Power of Neighborhood in Turkey: Piety in a Secular State
- [P2254] Representations of Muhammad
- [P1992] State Repression and Societal Dissent in the Contemporary Middle East
- [P2066] The Palestinian Novel in Israel: Minor, Minority and National Identity
- [P2179] Writing and Contesting History in Egypt and Syria in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries
- 11:00am Session III
- [P2116] 60 Years On: A Critical Revisiting of UNRWA for Palestine Refugees
- [P2098] Alternative Media as Sites of Resistance
- [R2103] Between Cooperation and Resistance: The League of Nations Mandates in the Middle East
- [P2010] Changing Futures: Youth in the Middle East
- [P2078] Class Conflict in Afghanistan
- [P2182] Contest and Order: Spatial Configurations in the Middle East and North Africa
- [P2293] Contesting/Negotiating the European Union in the Turkish Context, Part II
- [P2239] Culture in the Western Mediterranean
- [P2217] Electoral Authoritarianism?: State Strategies and Political Contestation
- [P2026] Famous Fathers and Daughters in Islam
- [P2107] Formulations of Authority in Early Shi'i Islam
- [P2056] Gendering the Transnational in War, Peace-Building and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Case of Iraq & Palestine
- [P2164] Independent Algeria: Reconsidering the Boumediene Era, Part I-The Regime and Internal Developments
- [P2220] Islamist Parties and the Political Process
- [C2289] Knowledge as Compromise: Issues in Translation
- [P2099] Material Culture and History – Transforming Urban Worlds: Local Agency and Material Culture in 19th and Early 20th Century Tripoli
- [P2135] Politics of Education and Conversion: American Protestant Missions in the Near East (1856-1932)
- [P2237] Reflections on Arab Poetry
- [P2025] The Interplay Between Turkish Cinema and Literature
- [P2294] The Ottoman Mahalle in Court Records, 17-19th Centuries, Part I
- [P2298] Using Middle Eastern Film in the Classroom: Incorporating Non-Traditional Visual Resources
- 2:00pm Session IV
- [P2022] Citizenship and Social Contracts in the Middle East and Countries with Muslim Minorities
- [P2166] Consuming Leisure, Producing Desire in the Arab World, Part I
- [P2235] Early Modern Seascapes
- [P2050] Evaluative Development of Curriculum Innovations in Teaching Arabic as a Second Language
- [P2165] Independent Algeria: Reconsidering the Boumediene Era, Part II-Foreign Relations and International Role
- [P2173] Intertextuality, Allusion, and the Evolution of the New in Modern Arabic and Francophone Poetry
- [P2013] Iraqi Traumas since the 1990s: Haunting Traces and Shifting Boundaries, Part I
- [P2266] Lebanon and the Lebanese
- [P2106] Marking and Marketing Identity: Between Egyptian-ness and Otherness
- [P2231] Perspectives on Israel-Palestine
- [P2273] Politics and the Public Sphere
- [P2089] Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies, Part I: Legal Structures of Iran in Late Antiquity
- [P2143] Reflections on North African Fieldwork and Ethnography
- [P2087] Shi'i Religio-Political Leadership
- [P2221] State Led Development and Middle Eastern Capitalism
- [R2300] Teaching Islam in Comparative Perspective
- [P2061] The Ottoman Mahalle in Court Records, 17-19th Centuries, Part II
- [P2232] The Performing Arts Make History
- [P2079] Turkish Armenians after 1915
- [C2283] Women's Popular Media Culture in the Muslim Middle East
- 4:30pm Session V
- [P2256] Architecture and Urban Space
- [P2158] “I Stories” : Question of Subjectivity in Ottoman Travelogues, Sefaretname and Memoirs
- [P2127] Body, Self and Gender in Discourses and Practices in the Middle Eastern Context
- [P2260] Channeling Media
- [P2163] Classical Arabic Poets in Performance: Making Self, Other and Society
- [P2187] Consuming Leisure, Producing Desire in the Arab World, Part II
- [P2019] Crossing Over: Negotiating Levantine Borders During the Mandate and After
- [P2060] De Tocqueville in Algeria Revisited
- [P2014] Dynamics of Political Change in the Gulf: Implications of Electoral Politics in Iran and Kuwait
- [P2270] Experiencing British Colonialism in Egypt
- [P2299] Graduate Student Workshop: Alternative Career Choices
- [R2119] Integrating Armenians: New Sources and Approaches for Armenian History within Middle East Studies
- [P2295] Iraqi Traumas since the 1990s: Haunting Traces and Shifting Boundaries, Part II
- [P2275] Mysticism in the Modern World
- [P1999] Ottoman History from Below
- [P2090] Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies, Part II: Problematics in Chronological Demarcations of Late Antique Iran
- [P2091] Reforming the Family: Love, Marriage and Modernity, 19th and 20th Centuries
- [C2211] Teaching Arabic Variation: Linguistic Reality, Linguistic Dissonance, & Linguistic Choice
- [P1983] The Challenges of Kurdish Nationalism
- 7:00pm Session VI
- 8:30am Session II
Monday, 11/23/09
- 8:30am Session VII
- [P2133] A Material Nahda?
- [P2020] Arabic Language Register: Ideologies and Practices
- [P2189] Colonialism, Culture, and National Vision in North Africa and the Middle East
- [P2132] Former Ottomans and Contemporary Communities: Explorations in Reconciliation, Part I
- [P2081] Individuals and Social Change in the Muslim World (Late 19th Century-Early 20th Century)
- [P2247] Islam and Modernity I
- [P2244] Kemalism and Its Legacy
- [P2027] Lost in Translation: Intercultural Encounters and Re-visions of the Past
- [P2252] Magic, Sainthood and Music in Sufism
- [P2253] Medieval Courts and Princes
- [P2144] Photographing Self and Other: Portrait Photography in the Middle East
- [P2149] Refiguring Loss in Contemporary Arabic Literature
- [P2200] Reinventing Identities in Emerging Markets: How Advertising Campaigns are Redefining the Image of Arab Yuppies?
- [P2012] Routes and Cities in 16th-Century Ottoman Asia Minor: The Sivas-Erzincan-Amid Triangle
- [P2228] Sexuality and Human Rights
- [P2267] The Military and Security Concerns in the Middle East
- [C2287] The Social Role of Intellectuals in the Middle East
- [P2051] Transforming Home: The Politics of Dwelling in the Middle East
- [P2148] Whither the Desert Spring: Understanding the Meaning and Effects of Electoral Reforms in Semi-Authoritarian and Authoritarian Elections
- 11:00am Session VIII
- [P1987] Algeria-France: Post-Colonial Aftershocks
- [P2074] An Idealized Past: Competing Histories and the Construction of Memory in the Medieval Islamic World
- [P2049] Beyond Democracy Promotion: International & Regional Dimensions of Authoritarianism
- [P2121] Beyond the Arab Closet: Homosexuality and Homoeroticism in Contemporary Arabic Literature
- [P2242] Citizenship and Social Thought in Iran
- [P2265] Comparative Education Policy
- [P2048] External Intervention, Civil Peace, and Post-Syria Lebanon
- [P2296] Former Ottomans and Contemporary Communities: Explorations in Reconciliation, Part II
- [P2042] Imagining the Holy Land
- [S2291] Iraqi Heritage
- [P2248] Islam and Modernity II
- [P1986] Israel After the Elections and the War in Gaza
- [P2101] Knowledge Production, National Identity Formation and the Modern State in Egypt
- [P2276] Political Thought and Nationalism
- [P2251] Qur’an: Genesis and Interpretation
- [P2115] Slavery and Captivity in the Ottoman Empire
- [S2290] Special Session: Thinking Outside the State?
- [R2094] Teaching Materials for Turkish: Review and Critique
- [P2097] The 'Other History': Defying the Status Quo through Oral History and Home Schoolings
- [P2160] The Evolution of Intellectual Life in the Late Ottoman Empire: Religion, Identity, and Literature
- [P2226] Transforming Landscapes
- [P2197] Turkish Media and the Question of Identity
- 2:30pm Session IX
- [P2246] AKP and Reformism in Turkey
- [P2076] Counterspaces of Modernity in Turkey and Palestine
- [P2278] Crossing Religious Frontiers: Political and Imaginative
- [P2233] Cultural Production in Nation Formation
- [P2177] Faces of Sectarianism in the Levant
- [P2227] Gender, Sexuality, Representation
- [P2243] Generations in Diaspora: Representations and the Self
- [C2286] GIS (Geographical Information System) in Middle East Studies Part II: Working Local and Going Global
- [P2261] Harnessing Online Media
- [P2064] Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Growing Crisis
- [P2249] Medieval Literature and Science
- [P2201] Patronage and Clientelism in the Contemporary Middle East
- [P2093] Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies, Part III: Aesthetic, Sacred, and Martial Expressions of Iran in the Late Antique Period
- [P2036] Reconfiguring State-Civil Society Relations Post-9/11, Part I
- [P2240] Teaching Arabic
- [P1993] Theater and Civic Life in Algeria, 1930s-1950s
- [P2122] Unheard Ottoman Voices: Minorities, Subalterns, and the National Narrative
- [P2257] Urban, Suburban and Rural Spaces
- [P2279] US and British Policies in the Middle East
- 5:00pm Session X
- [P2067] Abbasid Poetry: Formations and Transformations
- [P2040] Algeria Facing the Colonial Altar: Religious Expression and Manipulation in French Algeria
- [C2288] Arabic Teaching: Innovative Program Models
- [P2245] Being Kurdish
- [P2230] Being Palestinian
- [P2167] Cutting Edges: Emerging Transnational Configurations of Arab /Arab American /Arab British Cultural Production
- [P2065] East/West Visual Encounters in the Post-9/11 Era
- [P2075] Impacts of Circassian Resettlements in the Ottoman Empire
- [P2131] Istanbul as Transnational Locality: Individuals, Networks and Institutions (1840s-1940s)
- [P2044] Reach Out and Touch Someone: Arab Women Connect with New Communication and Internet Technologies
- [P2096] Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies, Part IV: Urban, Agricultural, and Administrative Processes and Transformations in Late Antique Iran
- [P2292] Reconfiguring State-Civil Society Relations Post-9/11, Part II
- [P2157] Redrawing Boundaries in Transnational European Islam
- [R1991] Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in Middle East Studies
- [P2062] Return to the Source: Northern Mesopotamia as a Centre of Material Culture in the Eastern Christian World
- [P2186] The "Rational Sciences in Islam" (RaSI) Database: Introduction and Preliminary Findings
- [P2170] The Formation and Transformation of Bektashi Communities
- [P2142] Turkish-Israeli Relations: Determinants and Challenges
- [P2043] When East Meets East: Connected and Compared Histories of Japan and the Middle East
- [P2152] Who Do Elected Officials Represent in Semi-Authoritarian and Authoritarian Regimes? Electoral Institutions, Legitimacy, and Governance in the Middle East
- 8:30am Session VII
Tuesday, 11/24/09
- 8:00am Session XI
- [P2047] 40 Years After Mitchell: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
- [P2180] A(nother) New Middle East in the Making?
- [P2238] Cinema and New Media in Iran
- [P2263] Defining Law
- [P2102] Discourse and Great Power Foreign Policy in the Middle East, 1882-1925
- [P2234] Forming Identity: War and Exile
- [P2011] Kuwait's Irreconcilable Knots
- [P2264] Minorities and the Ottoman Periphery
- [P2159] Moroccan Modernity: Change and Reform in the Pre-Protectorate Period
- [P2190] Patronage and Favoritism in the Ottoman Capital of Istanbul, Late 15th Through Early 17th Centuries
- [P2236] Persian Poetry and Literature
- [P1984] Perspectives on Arabic in Palestine/Arabic in Israel
- [P2109] Science, Culture and Society, Part I: The Social and Cultural Practices of Commemorative Texts
- [P2126] The Political Economy of Egyptian Enterprise Revisited: Market Power, Business Choices, and Popular Reactions
- [P2225] Turkish Foreign Policy
- [P2154] Umayyad Practices of Power
- 10:30am Session XII
- [P2250] Alevis in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
- [P2104] Assessing Reproductive Health Care amongst Marginalized Communities: Bedouin in Lebanon
- [P2223] Clientelism and Patronage
- [P2168] Imperial Power, Local Politics, New Forms of Knowledge: Kurdish Identity and the Kurdish Question in the Late Ottoman Empire
- [P2092] Islamopediaonline: An Approach to Global Islamic Thinking
- [P2198] Muslims, Moriscos, Christians, and Amerindians: Conflictual Encounters and Exchange in the Early-Modern Habsburg Empire
- [P2241] New Perspectives on Iranian Revolutions
- [P2080] Ottoman Literature and the Myth of “Imitation”
- [P2082] Performing Resistance: Performative Responses to Foreign and Domestic Pressure in the Arab World
- [P2176] Quo Vadis Israel?
- [P2112] Science, Culture and Society Part II: The Secrets of Eloquence: Linguistic Expression in Medieval Arabic Thought and Practice
- [P2125] Social and Intellectual Change in the Late Ottoman Empire
- [P2100] The Arab World in the French Parliament, 1826-1962
- [P2004] The Professionalization of the Rival National Intelligence Services in the Middle East During World War One
- [P2272] Themes in Early Islam
- [P2006] Transformations from Below: The Challenges of Local Politics in the Arab World
- [P2005] Water and Politics: Manipulating the Waters of Egypt from the 18th Century through to the Present
- [P2015] Women, Gender and Christianity in the Middle East, Part I
- 1:00pm Session XIII
- [P2141] Between Colonialism, Authoritarianism, and Political Islam: Prospects for the Palestinian National Movement after the War against Gaza 2008-2009
- [P2271] Class, Labor, and Production
- [P2138] Co-optation and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to Ottoman State-Building
- [P1988] Constructing and Contesting Salafiyya
- [P2219] Middle East in an International Context
- [P2174] On the Frontiers and Borderlands of Islamic Empires
- [P2057] Pirated Politics: Contemporary Art, Artists, and the Postproduction of the Middle East
- [P2195] Poetics, Politics, and Prisons of Exile in Arabic Literature
- [P2269] Press Battles
- [P2039] Remembrance and Reconciliation: Themes in Armenian and Turkish Literature
- [P2274] Representations of Gender
- [P2181] Science, Culture and Society-Part III: Medical Knowledge in the Making: The Creation and Circulation of Medical Knowledge in the Middle East
- [P2147] State Formation in Middle East: The Kurdish Question/Case
- [R2117] Teaching About the Middle East: Engaging Students and the Public Through Identity
- [P2071] The Legal Institutions of British Egypt
- [P2086] The New Political, Economic and International Dynamics in the Maghreb
- [P2058] Towards a History of Children and Childhood in the Middle East
- [P2258] Voices from the Margins
- 8:00am Session XI