Arabic-L:LING:UCSB Conference Marhc 22-23
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1) Subject: UCSB Conference Marhc 22-23
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Date: 13 Feb 2002
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: UCSB Conference Marhc 22-23
Dear Colleagues,
Below you will find the preliminary program for UCSB's fourth annual
Middle East Studies conference to be held on March 23, 2002. Both the
number and quality of the proposals were exceptional this year and the
program looks to be a particularly exciting one, not least beacuse our
plenary session will feature Dr. Rema Hamami (Birzeit University, Center
for Women's Studies/Department of Anthropology) who will be speaking on
the Palestianian situation since 9/11.
Several of the working groups, panels, and individual papers address the
two main themes of conference -- "Middle East Studies in the Wake of 9/11"
and "The Middle East & South Asia: Connections and Comparisons," but there
a wide variety of other topics are included, as well.
We will soon be sending out a more detailed message with logistical
information regarding local hotels, travel to and from the airport as well
as driving instructions, shuttle van times from hotels to the
conference, and so forth.
If you have not visited Santa Barbara before, you may wish to allot some
time on Sunday to walk around town, go to the beach, go wine-tasting in
the Santa Ynez Valley, or even go hiking in the Santa Ynez mountains.
Please also note that on Friday, March 22 (the day previous to our
conference) there will be a day-long workshop at UCSB entitled <New
Approaches to Women, Culture, and Development> featuring Rema Hamami, Raka
Ray, Shahnaz Rouse, Sondra Hale, Mary Hancock, Nancy Gallagher and others.
The two events have been scheduled on consecutive days so that those who
wish to can attend both.
Again, you will receive additional logistical information from us soon,
but until then, I look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara in March!
Best,
Dwight
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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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SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2002
4TH ANNUAL MIDDLE EAST STUDIES REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Center for Middle East Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
McCune Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
6th floor, Humanities & Social Sciences Building
9:30-9:45 Welcome
(Dwight Reynolds, Director, Center for Middle East Studies)
9:45-11:45 SESSION I
1) Working Group: TEACHING ARABIC LANGUAGE IN THE WAKE OF 9/11
Conveners: Aziz Abbassi (Defense Language Institute, Monterey)
Kirk Belknap (Brigham Young University)
John Eisele (College of Willam and Mary)
2) Paper panel: POLITICS OF MYTHOLOGY
Nancy Stockdale (U of Central Florida):
"Citizens of Heaven" versus "The Islamic Peril": The Anti-Islamic
Rhetoric of Orlando's Holy Land Experience since 9/11
Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College, LA):
The Resurrection of "Holy War" in Israel
Abdul Karim Khan (University of Hawaii--Leeward Community College):
The Jewish Connection of Afghan Pukhtuns
Esra Ozyurek (University of Michigan/UCSB):
Nostalgia as Political Battleground: Kemalist and Islamist
Versions of the Early Turkish Republic
3) Paper Panel: MIDDLE EAST/SOUTH ASIA--HYBRIDITIES AND BOUNDARIES
Anna Bigelow (UCSB):
Tales of Two Saints: Traditions without a Tradition in Maler Kotla,
Punjab
Peter Cowe (UCLA):
Reconfiguring Armenian Political Identity in India: The Radical
Madras Constitution of the late 1870's
Jackie Armijo (Stanford):
International Islamic Education and its Impact on Muslims in China
Caroline Sawyer (SUNY College at Old Westbury):
Ahmad-ed Sirhindi and the Central Asian Context of the Naqshbandi
Sufi Order
4) Paper Panel: HISTORY AND MEMORY
Firoozeh Papan-Matin (UCLA):
Kashf al-Asrar: A Medieval Autobiography in Perspective
Mark Pettigrew (UC Berkeley):
History and Fantasy: Perspectives on the Legacy of Pre-Islamic Egypt
Keiko Ohta (Japan):
Christian Communities in `Abbasid Egypt in the Ninth Century AD
Toru Miura (Japan):
Salihiyya (Damascus) in the Nineteenth-Century according to the
Ottoman Archives
11:45--1:00 LUNCH
[All presenters and conveners will be provided lunch.
Other attendees wil be able to purchase lunch at the
conference or at the many nearby restaurants]
1:00--3:00 SESSION II
1) Working Group: TEACHING MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN THE WAKE OF 9/11
Conveners: Elizabeth Dahab (CSU Long Beach), Salaam Yousif
(CSU San Bernardino), Wendy Smith (CSU San Bernardino), Masashi
Haneda (Japan)
2) Paper Panel: POPULAR AND FOLK CULTURE
Maryann Walter (MIT):
Arabic Card Jargon: A Sociolinguistic Study in the Transmission of
Popular Culture
Richard Wainthropp (UCLA):
Exposing Ebced for what it is--and isn't
Nadine Sinno & William Taggart (U of Arkansas):
Osama's New Look: Tragedy, Humor, and 9/11
Amita Sarin (U of Maryland):
The Hand in South Asian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
3) Paper Panel: MIDDLE EAST/SOUTH ASIA -- WOMEN AND GENDER
Shahnaz Rouse (Sarah Lawrence):
Mean Streets: Male Domination of Public Space in Pakistan
Huda Jadallah (UCSB):
The Study of Honor Crimes among Arab-Americans
Huma Bashir Dar (UC Berkeley):
Islamizing the Tawa'if or Tawa'ifing the Muslims: the Lucknow
Tawa'if Partitioned
Sondra Hale (UCLA);
Title TBA
4) Paper Panel: ARABIC LITERATURE
Shaden Tageldin (UC Berkeley):
Translating the Sovereign Self into Subalternity: al-Tahtawi's
<Takhlis al-ibriz fi talkhis Bariz> (1834)
Noha Radwan (UC Berkeley):
Fuad Haddad: A Modern Poet in Traditional Garb
Rochelle Davis (De Anza College):
Writing Down Memories: Accounts of Life in Palestine before 1948
Douglas Young (Stanford):
Epic Conflict in al-Andalus: Otherness in Orality and Writing
3:00--3:30 COFFEE BREAK
3:30--5:00 PLENARY SESSION AND DISCUSSION
Dr. Rema Hammami
(Birzeit University/Center for Women's Studies &
Department of Anthropology)
<<THE PALESTINIAN SITUATION SINCE 9/11>>
5:00--6:00 WALK ON THE BEACH // WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00-8:00 DINNER
8:00-9:30 CONCERT -- UCSB MIDDLE EAST ENSEMBLE
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