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Date: 19 Feb 2001
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: CA Regional MES Conference


         CALIFORNIA REGIONAL MIDDLE EAST STUDIES CONFERENCE
                     Saturday, March 24, 2001
        Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies

       Registration/Plenary Sessions in the McCune Conference Room
                 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
            6th floor, Humanities & Social Sciences Building


The UCSB Center for Middle East Studies is pleased to announce the third
annual California Regional Middle East Studies conference to be held on
Saturday, March 24, 2001.  As in past years, the regional conference aims
to bring together faculty and graduate students from colleges and
universities from throughout the state of California and the Southwest
region and provide a meeting place for all of the various disciplines and
sub-disciplines that deal with the Middle East.  In previous years
participants from as many as 26 different institutions have attended.

There is no registration fee or parking fee, and the conference is open to
everyone.  However there is a charge of $10 per person for lunch and $15
per person for the banquet supper on Saturday evening for those who wish
to eat at the conference (there are also many nearby restaurants).

If you wish to attend the catered lunch and/or supper, please send a
check, payable to the Regents of the University of California, to the
address below so that it arrives no later than Tuesday, March 20:

      Middle East Studies Conference
      Center for Middle East Studies
      University of California
      Santa Barbara, CA 93106

    [Please note: Participants who are reading papers or convening
     working groups do NOT need to pay for their lunch or supper]

For those who do not wish to attend the luncheon or the supper, there are
a number of restaurants located within an easy five-minute walking
distance of the conference site.

The CONCERT on Saturday evening is FREE and open to everyone.

The conference is being held in the same location as in previous years.
Driving instructions, maps, and a guide to local hotels are all available
online at the sites below.

* Driving instructions: UCSB and Humanities & Social Sciences Bldg (HSSB):
      http://www.gisp.ucsb.edu/mideastcon/directions/index.html

* Maps: http://www.gisp.ucsb.edu/mideastcon/maps/index.html

* Nearby hotels:
      http://www.gisp.ucsb.edu/mideastcon/hotels/index.html

Tentative Schedule:
     8:45- 9:00  Welcome (Dwight Reynolds, Director, CMES)
     9:00-11:00  Research Paper Panels
    11:00-11:30  Coffee
    11:30- 1:00  Working Groups
     1:00- 2:00  Lunch
     2:00- 3:30  Featured Speaker Sessions
     3:30- 4:00  Coffee
     4:00- 5:30  Plenary Session: The Future of Middle East Studies
     6:00- 8:00  Dinner
     8:00-10:00  Concert of Middle East Music & Dance


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9:00-11:00 AM   RESEARCH PAPER PANELS

PANEL #1: ARABO-ANDALUSIAN LITERATURE
Ruqayya Khan (UCSB): "Comparing al-Jahiz and Ibn Hazm on *Kitman al-Sirr*"
James Monroe (UC Berkeley): "Wine, Women & Panegyric: Ibn Quzman's Zajal
      No. 90"
David Zuwiyya (Auburn): "Alexander's Islamic Heritage in *Qissat
      Dhulqarnayn*: An Andalusian Arabic Life of Alexander the Great"
Douglas Young (Stanford): "Genre and Anxiety of Influence: the Andalusian
      Maqama of al-Saraqusti"

PANEL #2: WOMEN & GENDER
Nayereh Tohidi (CSU Northridge): "The Impact of Global Feminism on the
      Iranian Women's Movement"
Cynthia Nelson (American University in Cairo): "Gender and Women's
      Studies: the State of the Field in the Middle East"
Nikki Keddie (UCLA): "Interpreting Muslim Women's History"
Elizabeth Dahab (CSU Long Beach): "Voices in the Desert: Arabic-Canadian
      Women Writers"

PANEL #3: LANGUAGE, ARTS & IDENTITY:
Peter Cowe (UCLA): "Silk, Missions, and a Crusade: Two 17th-Century Plays
      against the Backdrop of Franco-Armenian political, economic, and
      cultural Interchange"
Sadok Masliyah (DLI, Monterey): "Old Iraqi Lullabies, Nursery Rhymes and
      Cheering Songs in Arabic and Judeo-Arabic"
Kamran Talattof (U of Arizona): "Thirsty She Aged: the Poetry, Acting and
      Dancing of Shahrzad"
Wendy Smith (CSU San Bernardino): "Constructing Social Identity: Argument
      and Interaction in a Palestinian-Israeli University DiscussiOn Group"

PANEL #4: RELIGION AND SOCIETY:
Samy Swayd (San Diego State University): "Al-Hakim vs. Al-Hakim
      Bi-Amrullah: Druze Medieval Hermeneutics"
Hend Gilli-Elewy (CSU Pomona): "Ibn al-Fuwati and the History of Baghdad
      after the Fall of the Caliphate"
Juan Campo (UCSB): "Virtual Pilgrimage? The Hajj in the Electronic Media"
Kazem Alamdari (CSU Los Angeles): "The Integration of Religion and
      State and the Question of Development in Muslim Societies"

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-1:00  WORKING GROUPS:
   TEACHING MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURES (Conveners: Salaam Yousif, Wendy
      Smith, Elizabeth Dahab)
   ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND THE INTERNET (Conveners: Deborah Wheeler, Nancy
      Gallager, Mark Warschauer)
   MOROCCAN ARABIC AND BERBER IN THE CLASSROOM (Conveners: Aziz Abbassi,
      Salah Hammoud, Greg Swimelar, Ali Khejjou)
   IRAN SINCE THE REVOLUTION (Conveners: Asef Bayat, Nikki Keddie)

1:00-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00-3:30 FEATURED SPEAKER SESSIONS:

   Asef Bayat (American University in Cairo/St. Anthony's, Oxford): "A Last
      Resort Activism? The Politics of Indigenous NGO's in the Middle East"

   Robert Blake (UC Davis): "The Relationship between the UC Language
      Consortium and the Teaching of Middle Eastern Languages"

   Michael Cooperson (UCLA): "Rhetoric, Table Manners, and the Arab
      Renaissance (Nahda)"

   Josef Meri (UC Berkeley): [Exact title to be announced--Topic: Jewish,
      Christian, and Muslim relations in the Context of Pilgrimages and
      Saint Veneration]

3:30-4:00 COFFEE BREAK

4:00-5:30 PLENARY SESSION:

    THE FUTURE OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
      Leonard Binder (UCLA)
      Mahmood Ibrahim (CSU Pomona)
      Shahnaz Rouse (Sarah Lawrence)

6:00-8:00 DINNER

8:00-10:00 CONCERT OF MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC AND DANCE

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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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