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Date: 08 Feb 2002
From:Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject:ME Studies Conference/Logistics
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CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
University of California, Santa Barbara
4th ANNUAL MIDDLE EAST STUDIES REGIONAL CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2002
9:30 AM TO 5:00 PM
UCSB HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING
6TH FLOOR, McCUNE CONFERENCE ROOM
The UCSB Center for Middle East Studies is pleased to announce the
Fourth Annual Middle East Studies Regional Conference to be held on
Saturday, March 23, 2002 at
9:30 am in the McCune Conference Room on the 6th floor of the Humanities
and Social Sciences Building on the Main campus of UCSB.
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 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.
This year, the 4th Annual Middle East Regional Studies Conference will
be held back to back with an all day workshop on Friday, March 22, 2002
on New Approaches to the Study of Women, Culture and Development. The
workshop will begin at 8:30 am in the McCune Conference Room. The
complete schedule for both events is attached. Many of you will want to
attend both events.
The Center for Middle East Studies is pleased to announce that Speakers
at these two events are registered at the Santa Barbara Ramada Limited.
CMES will organise a shuttle service to and from the conference and the
Ramada Limited. Please take a moment to confirm whether you will need to
stay one or two nights on the 22nd and 23rd of March, 2002. If you need
a smoking room, or have any special transportation requirements or need
media equipment for your presentation, or you simply have particular
dietary needs, please let us know as early as possible. There follows a
brief summary of the conference program for the 22nd and 23rd of March:
Schedule for the Women, Culture and Development Workshop, 22nd March,
2002
8:30 - 10:30
South Asia after Gender: Theory and Practice
11:00 - 12:30
Dealing with Difference: Reflexivity and Working "in the Field"
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch, walk on the Beach
2:00 - 5:00
Graduate Student Workshop: Structuring a Research Project
4th Annual Regional Middle East Studies Conference, 23rd March, 2000
9:30 - 9:45
Welcome (Dwight Reynolds, Director, CMES)
9:45 - 11:45
SESSION I
Working Group: Teaching Arabic Language in the Wake of 9-11
The Politics of Mythology
History and Memory
11:45 - 1:00
Lunch
1:00 - 3:00
SESSION II
Working Group: Teaching Arabic Language in the Wake of 9-11
Middle East/South Asia: Women and Gender
Popular and Folk Culture
Arabic Literature
3:00 - 3:30
Coffee Break
3:50 - 5:00
Plenary Session: Rema Hemami, Birzeit University,
Center for Women's Studies
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
Middle East Ensemble Concert
There is no registration fee or parking fee for either the workshop or
the conference and both events are open to everyone. However, there is a
charge of $10 per person for lunch and $15 per person for the banquet
dinner 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 or bring on the day a check,
payable to the Regents of the University of California. You may send a
check to pay for lunch or dinner to:
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 dinner.
.
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 is FREE and open to everyone.
The conference is taking place in the McCune Conference Room of the
Humanities and Social Sciences Building on the main UCSB campus. Driving
instructions, maps are all available at the sites below.
Santa Barbara Ramada Limited
4770 Calle Real
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
Telephone: (805) 964-3511
Fax: (805) 964-0075
Toll Free: (800) 654-1965
Weblink: http://www.sbramada.com/map.html
If you are FLYING into Santa Barbara, the Ramada Limited is only twelve
minutes from the airport, and the hotel operates a courtesy shuttle
service to and from the airport. When you arrive, please use the free
courtesy phone to call the hotel and ask for a taxi to be sent to pick
you up and deliver you to the hotel.
Similarily, if you are arriving by TRAIN, please call the Ramada for a
taxi and they will
order a taxi which will be paid upon your arrival at the hotel.
If you are DRIVING to Santa Barbara, the directions to the Ramada
Limited are as follows:
From the North (San Francisco)
Traveling on US-101 South
Take the Turnpike Road Exit
Turn left onto Turnpike Road
Turn right onto Calle Real
Hotel is on left across street from IHOP restaurant
From the South (Los Angeles)
Traveling on US-101 North
Take the Turnpike Road Exit
Turn right onto Turnpike Road
Turn right onto Calle Real
Hotel is on left across street from IHOP restaurant
If you are DRIVING DIRECTLY TO THE CONFERENCE arriving from the south:
From north-bound highway 101, exit at the UCSB/Highway 217 off-ramp and
then drive about 2 miles to the East Gate of the UCSB campus. Stop at
the parking kiosk and ask for directions to the Humanities and Social
Sciences Building. Those arriving on Friday, 3/22/02, must pick up their
free parking passes at the kiosk for this special event. For those
arriving on Saturday, 3/23/02, parking is free on the weekends. Both the
conferences and workshop take place in the McCune Conference room of the
Interdisciplinary Humanities Department, on the 6th floor of the HSSB.
If you are DRIVING in from the north:
From south-bound highway 101, take either the Storke Road exit or the
Los Carneros exit. If you take the Storke Road exit, you take a right on
Storke from the Highway 101 off-ramp. Stay on Storke Road until it makes
an L junction with El Colegio (about a mile). El Colegio will bring you
to the West Gate of the UCSB Campus. Please check with the parking kiosk
for directions to the Humanities and Social Sciences Building.
Those arriving on Friday, 3/22/02, please pick up a free parking pass
to attend the 'Women, Culture and Development' workshop.
If you miss the Storke Road exit from Highway 101, you will be able to
take the next exit. Los Carneros. Take a right at the Highway 101
off-ramp to Los Carneros. Los Carneros will wind past two stop lights
and cross a third at Hollister Avenue. Los Carneros then continues past
one more set of traffic lights before meeting El Colegio at a T
junction. Take a left and continue to the West Gate of the UCSB Campus.
Please collect your free parking pass if you are arriving on Friday,
3/22/02.
ADDITIONAL DRIVING DIRECTIONS AND MAPS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING
WEBSITES:
http://www.park.ucsbb.edu/ucsbmap.html
http://www.park.ucsb.edu/UCSBmain.pdf
http://www.park.ucsb.edu/goleta.html
http://www.park.ucsb.edu/ucgoleta.pdf
FURTHER INFORMATION:
When you check into the hotel you will receive an information packet
with the final program and maps to the university.
TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM THE HOTEL:
As in previous years, we will be running a shuttle van from the hotel
directly to the conference site. The shuttle van to both conference and
workshop will leave the hotel at 8 AM on Friday and Saturday.
If you are driving, we ask you to please drive your own car to
conference, (only a 5 minute drive), since the seating in the shuttle
van is limited and is needed for those who are arriving by plane. If
you are driving to the Friday workshop, 'Women, Culture and
Development', please be sure to collect a parking pass from the parking
kiosk at either the East or West Gate for this Special Event. There is
no parking fee or permit required for the Saturday conference. The
shuttle van will also be available during the day in case anyone needs
to return to the hotel, and will carry passengers back to the hotel at
the end
of each day.
MEALS:
There is a light breakfast served at your hotel, but we will also have
a breakfast buffet set up at the conference, as well as coffee services,
lunch, and dinner. As conference presenters, we have already signed you
up for lunch and dinner and these are paid for. All other guests must
register and pay for their meals if they wish to attend the catered
meals.
THOSE ATTENDING THE FRIDAY WORKSHOP:
For those who are planning on attending the workshop 'Women , Culture and
Development' on Friday, March 22, the day BEFORE our regional
conference, please make sure that you register for that event. Your
meals at that event will also be paid for, but we must ask you to
register ahead of time at cmes at isber.ucsb.edu , so that we have an
accurate head-count.
If you are coming to Santa Barbara on Thursday, March 21st, and wish to
stay that night at the Ramada Limited (so that you do not need to change
hotels or rooms), please call the Ramada Limited (805) 964-3511.
Please feel free to call the staff at the Center for Middle East Studies
(805-893-4245), if you have any questions concerning your attendance at
the Conference and Workshop or your stay in Santa Barbara. We look
forward to your visit and wish you all a safe journey to this special
and unique place.
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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
PLEASE NOTE MY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu
Office: (805) 893-7143 Department office: (805) 893-7136
FAX: (805) 893-2059 Email: dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu
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