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1) Subject: Santa Barbara Symposium on ME and South Asia
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Date: 20 Feb 2001
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Santa Barbara Symposium on ME and South Asia
THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH ASIA: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Friday, March 23, 2001, 9 am to 6 pm
Sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
McCune Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
6th Humanities & Social Sciences Building (UCSB)
To mark the beginning of its three-year project exploring the comparative
study of the Middle East and South Asia, the UCSB Center for Middle East
Studies is pleased to announce a one-day symposium--THE MIDDLE EAST &
SOUTH ASIA: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES. This symposium features four
prominent scholars who have actively engaged in comparative study in the
Middle East and/or South Asia using a variety of different disciplinary
approaches: Janet Abu-Lughod, Shahab Ahmed, Asef Bayat, and K. N.
Chaudhuri.
The overall project, initiated by the Center for Middle East Studies at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, seeks: (1) to articulate and
discuss the various cultural, political, and economic connections that
have linked the Middle East and South Asia throughout history; (2) to
explore the possibilities of a new field of inquiry that partially
rectifies the drawbacks of traditional area studies by examining these two
regions through comparative study; and, (3) to assess, at the end of the
three-year project (2001-2003), the potential for these approaches to
contribute to the larger discussion concerning area and global studies as
methodologies in the American academy.
Our primary goal at this first event is to bring together a small group of
interested scholars to discuss potential theoretical and methodological
parameters for the comparative study of the Middle East and South Asia.
In order to encourage as much discussion as possible, we have scheduled 45
minutes of open discussion after each of the four featured presentations.
Although the symposium is free and open to all, seating will be limited.
If you hope to attend, we therefore ask that you REGISTER with the Center
for Middle East Studies at the following email address as soon as
possible:
CMES at isber.ucsb.edu
Once you have registered, further logistical information will be sent
to you by email regarding meals, lodging, transportation, and directions,
as well as the prospectus for the three-year project of which this
symposium is the opening event.
Tentative Schedule: Friday, March 23, 2001
8:45- 9:00 Welcome (Dwight Reynolds, Director, CMES)
9:00-10:30 Janet Abu-Lughod (presentation and discussion)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Shahab Ahmed (presentation and discussion)
12:30- 2:00 Lunch
2:00- 3:30 Asef Bayat (presentation and discussion)
3:30- 4:00 Coffee
4:00- 5:30 Kirti N. Chaudhuri (presentation and discussion)
5:30- 5:45 Closing Remarks
6:00- 8:00 Banquet Supper
* * * * * * * * * * *
JANET ABU-LUGHOD: "The Connections between the Middle East and Asia:
Before, After, and During Western Hegemony"
Urban planner, sociologist and historian Janet L. Abu-Lughod is
professor emerita at both Northwestern University and the Graduate
Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Author of 12 books and
hundreds of articles and reviews, she is best known in Middle Eastern
studies for her books on Cairo (Princeton U. Press 1971) and Rabat
(Princeton U. Press 1980) and her much reprinted article on the
Islamic City (IJMES 1987). She explored Middle Eastern-Asian
connections (inter alia) in her BEFORE EUROPEAN HEGEMONY, a
prize-winning analysis of the world system in the 13th century (Oxford
U. Press 1989). Her most recent books are SOCIOLOGY FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY (University of Chicago Press 1999) and NEW YORK, CHICAGO, LOS
ANGELES: AMERICA'S GLOBAL CITIES (University of Minnesota Press 1999).
SHAHAB AHMED: "`Aja'ib al-Hind, Armaghan-i Hijaz: Reading Islam across
South Asia and the Middle East"
Shahab Ahmed obtained his BA in Middle East History from the American
University in Cairo in 1991, and his PhD in Islamic Studies from
Princeton University in 1999. His doctoral dissertation, "The Satanic
verses incident in the Memory of the Early Muslim Community: A Study
of the Early Reports and their Transmitters", was awarded the Bayard
and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Dissertation Prize at Princeton
University, and the Malcolm H Kerr Dissertation Award Honorable
Mention by the Middle East Studies Association. He is currently
working on two books, one entitled, THE PROBLEM OF THE SATANIC VERSES
AND THE FORMATION OF ISLAMIC ORTHODOXY, and the other, MEMORY, GENRE
AND AUTHORITY IN EARLY ISLAM: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PROPHECY BETWEEN
THE AHL AL-HADITH, AHL AL-SIRAH/MAGHAZI AND MUFASSIRUN. He has
taught at Fordham University and the American University in Cairo, and
is presently a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
ASEF BAYAT: "Cities and Social Movements in the Middle East: Potentials
and Challenges of Thinking Comparatively"
Asef Bayat is a Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at the
American University in Cairo. Currently he is a Fellow of St. Antony's
College, Oxford University. Author of WORKERS AND REVOLUTION
IN IRAN (London 1987), WORK, POLITICS, AND POWER (London and New York,
1991), and STREET POLITICS (New York, 1998), he is currently working
on a new book, FROM POLITICAL ISLAM TO POST-ISLAMISM: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN IRAN AND EGYPT.
KIRTI N. CHAUDHURI: "The Middle East and South Asia through the Eyes of
the Beholder: the Outline of a Theory of Equivalence"
K. N. Chaudhuri is Vasco de Gama Professor of the History of European
Expansion, European University, Florence. He is the author ASIA
BEFORE EUROPE: ECONOMY AND CIVILISATION OF THE INDIAN OCEAN FROM THE
RISE OF ISLAM TO 1750 (Cambridge: 1990); TRADE AND CIVILISATION IN
THE INDIAN OCEAN: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY FROM THE RISE OF ISLAM TO 1750
(Cambridge: 1985); THE TRADING WORLD OF ASIA AND THE ENGLISH EAST
INDIA COMPANY, 1660-1760 (Cambridge: 1978); and THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA
COMPANY: THE STUDY OF AN EARLY JOINT-STOCK COMPANY, 1600-1640 (New
York: Reprints of Economic Classics, 1965).
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Please note that on the day following THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH ASIA:
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (Saturday, March 24), the Center for Middle East
Studies will be hosting the third annual California regional Middle East
Studies conference. If you are planning to attend the one event, you
might be interested in attending both. Please feel free to contact me for
further information.
Sincerely,
Dwight F. Reynolds
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Dwight F. Reynolds, Director
Center for Middle East Studies
Chair, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Office: (805) 893-7143 Department office: (805) 893-7136
FAX: (805) 893-2059 Email: dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu
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