Preliminary Program final ver. 10-17-19 Middle East Studies Association 53rd Annual Meeting November 14-17 bountiful meeting program of more than 300 sessions (starts The best way to support your fellow meeting participants is to plan Aon page 12), a Book Bazaar (see page 4) featuring mountains of to depart New Orleans sometime Sunday afternoon or evening and books brought to you by the people who publish your work, and an to attend the many fine sessions that will be held on that day before exciting FilmFest (sneak peak on page 9) await you at MESA’s 53rd you leave. annual meeting in one of America’s favorite cities, New Orleans. Finally, two requests. First, if you have the means, please book your Rich in history, unparalleled in live music, a foodie’s paradise, and stay at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel using the link on the hotel around-the-clock nightlife make New Orleans magical. Gathering page on MESA’s website and printed below. We need maximum with friends and colleagues is priceless. Rather than extol the virtues bookings to meet our contractual obligations. Second, please of New Orleans here, we suggest you turn to page 6 for the insider’s support the companies that go to great expense to exhibit in the guide to the city by New Orleans native and MESA member Nabil Book Bazaar, by visiting the Book Bazaar and buying a book. The Al-Tikriti. book publishing enterprise faces a lot of challenges. It’s in all of our MESA’s affiliated associations and other groups will hold a majority interests to try to help keep it viable. of their events on Thursday, November 14 (see page 10). The first panel session will be on that day at 5:30pm and the meeting will conclude at the close of the last panel session on Sunday, November 17 at 3:30pm. Registration To preregister for the MESA 2019 annual meeting, complete the registration form located on the back page of this program and return it along with payment to the MESA Secretariat. If paying by credit card save a stamp and register online by logging into your myMESA account at https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php. Pre- registration is recommended as onsite registration rates are higher. The preregistration deadline is October 24, 2019. Category Preregistration Onsite full/associate $150 $200 student/retired member $90 $125 student non-member $120 $150 General non-member $200 $250 Sheraton New Orleans Hotel 500 Canal Street New Orleans LA 70130 504-525-2500 888-627-7033 ALERT: Avoid Hotel Booking Scams https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/msyis-sheraton- new-orleans-hotel/ Housing companies or wholesalers NOT affiliated with MESA may Rates/Reservations contact attendees to book hotel rooms for the 2019 annual meet- ing. These companies may actually put people at risk for credit card Cutoff Date $225 single/double Oct. 21 and identity theft. If the hotel is almost sold out, MESA staff will $250 triple let you know. Don’t believe a thing these scammers say. We do not $275 quad recommend doing business with them. All housing for the MESA 2019 annual meeting is handled through the link above. https://book.passkey.com/e/49880909 (plus room tax of 16.35% + $3/night occupancy fee) Travel/Ground Transportation Thematic Conversations Book Bazaar and Roundtables The Louis Armstrong New Orleans Easily the largest display of Middle East Thematic Conversations offer an alternative International Airport (MSY) serves the studies titles anywhere, MESA’s an- place to pose new questions for research, greater New Orleans area. The airport nual book bazaar will include old and new explore new trends and approaches to old is approximately 25 minutes from the friends–U presses, small publishing houses, questions, meet like-minded scholars, and Sheraton. For ground transportation, independent book sellers, and even artisans engage in open academic exchange in an contact Airport Shuttle New Orleans sharing their talents. All will gather in New unstructured space. The conversations have at 504-522-3500 or 866-596-2699, Orleans for a three-day festival of books. a session leader and discussants who set or book online at https://www. The book bazaar will be open 9-6 Friday the agenda for the conversation. They are airportshuttleneworleans.com/. Roundtrip and Saturday (Nov. 15 & 16), and 8-12 on (un)structured to provide for maximum service is $44 per person. One way is $24. Sunday (Nov. 17). Visit MESA’s website participation from those in attendance, and for a list of exhibitors. Share Your Paper there are no formal presentations. Seating is limited to 30 people. You don’t have to rent space to exhibit at with Co-Panelists by Oct. 15 the MESA meeting. For $40 per title, pub- Please share a copy of your paper with your Roundtables promote informed discussion lications can be placed on view in MESA’s co-panelists. You can send a copy attached and debate concerning the current state of Cooperative Book Display. This is an ideal to an email message or upload a copy to scholarship in particular fields, work currently arrangement for individuals, independent the myMESA system. No one else will be in progress or the particular problems involved authors, and small presses with few Middle able to view your paper except for your in the employment of new approaches, new East studies titles. models, etc. The roundtable format lends co-panelists. Papers need not be the final If you would like additional information itself to open discussion in an atmosphere copy; drafts are fine. There is no suggested about exhibiting at MESA 2019, please visit where participants provide their points of view paper length. Your topic and your depth of MESA’s website or contact Rose Veneklasen and engage the audience in active discussion. coverage should determine its length. Plan at [email protected] or 520-333-2577. to present a truncated version of your paper Participants do not prepare papers and do not at your panel. lecture to the audience. Seating is restricted to 25-30 maximum. No Show Policy 1. Log-in to myMESA (http://mesana. org/mymesa/login.php). Roommates We understand that things come up at 2. Click the “Annual Meeting” button. the last minute that prevent a participant If you are interested in sharing a room at from attending the meeting. As a courtesy 3. Click the “Paper Abstract” button the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel during the (shows up once you click the annual meeting to your co-panelists, please notify MESA MESA annual meeting, please visit MESA’s if you cannot attend the meeting. If you button). website at https://mesana.org/annual- 4. Click the “Submit/Update full paper” are scheduled to participate in the annual meeting/roommate-locator. MESA maintains meeting in any capacity and you don’t button. a “roommates wanted” page on its website show up and haven’t informed the MESA 5. Under “Upload your attachment” click where those wanting to share rooms can find Secretariat, you will be considered a ‘no- the “browse” button. each other. 6. Locate the file on your computer. show’ and will not be eligible to participate 7. Once the name of your file appears in Child Care in the next year’s meeting. A no-show is the box next to the “browse” button, click MESA can help parents find a local provider someone who is not physically present at the “Save and back to abstract” button. and will reimburse half of the cost of day his/her panel at the conference and hasn’t 8. Your file has now been uploaded. care services up to a maximum of $200 for notified the MESA Secretariat beforehand. 9. Log-out. the conference. Upon request, the Secretariat will be happy to post contact information Want to upload a newer copy later? Repeat of parents who want to share sitting services above. during the meeting. For further information, please contact Rose Veneklasen at rose@ mesana.org or 520 333-2577. Panel Chairs Invited Volunteers are invited to chair panels as- sembled from individually submitted papers at the MESA 2019 annual meeting. For a list of available panels, please visit MESA’s website at mesana.org, click on “Annual Meeting” at the top and then on “Chairs.” Email your choices to Mark Lowder at [email protected]. Before you volunteer, please note that MESA membership and annual meeting pre-registration are required of all meeting participants. Page 2 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program Anti-Sexual Harassment MESA Members Meeting MESA’s Anti-Sexual Harassment Commit- tee (ASH) will be in full operation at the MESA 2019 meeting in New Orleans. We Saturday, November 16 v 1:15pm-2:45pm v Sheraton New Orleans Hotel ask everyone to read the ASH committee The members meeting is an annual meeting or from the membership. For resolutions to protocol that is posted on MESA’s website. of the membership open to all members. be acted upon at the 2019 Members Meeting, If you are not familiar with what kinds of Voting is restricted to full and student MESA they must be in the hands of the MESA behavior constitute sexual harassment, the members. The meeting mainly consists of Secretariat by Thursday, October 31, 2019. protocol outlines those in detail. reports (see agenda below right). Where Instructions for submitting resolutions can be members play an important role is in voting found in MESA’s Bylaws which are posted on ASH will have a committee member and an for the Nominating Committee and on MESA’s website at mesana.org.