MESA ANNUAL MEETING 2015 Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, CO November 21-24, 2015 The following listing of CMES- and Harvard-affiliated speakers was compiled from the MESA Program that was posted in September. Please note that there may have been updates since this time that we were unable to include. For the most current information on times and locations of these panels, visit: https://mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program.php Pages i.-iii Harvard affiliate listing with session times Pages 9-50 MESA program with Harvard affiliate names highlighted Harvard Affiliate Listing with day(s)/time(s) of MESA sessions Harvard Faculty: . Bayoumi, Soha (Lecturer, History of Science) – Sun, 11-1 . Cammett, Melani (Professor of Government)—Sat, 5:30-7:30 pm; Mon, 5-7 . Dundar Akarca, Halit (Davis Center Visiting Professor)—Sun 8:30-10:30 . Fahmy, Khaled (Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle East History)—Sat, 5:30-7:30 . Granara, William (CMES Director, Professor of Arabic, NELC) – Sun, 11-1 . Sullivan, Nevenka Korica (Senior Preceptor NELC, CASA Director)– Sun, 11-1 . Mottahedeh, Roy (Gurney Professor of History) – Sun, 2-4 . Ragab, Ahmed (HDS; Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion) – Mon, 5-7 Harvard Students: . Agsar Alibhai, Ali (NELC) – Sun, 2-4; Mon, 11-1 . Andani, Khalil (Divinity, NELC) – Mon, 5-7 . Anderson, Paul (NELC) – Mon, 5-7 . Arslan, C. Ceyhun (NELC) – Sun, 4:30-6:30; Mon, 11-1 . Ben Ismail, Youssef (NELC) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Blecker, Allison (NELC) – Sun, 11-1 . Elston, Mary (NELC) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Gurbuzel, Aslihan (History/MES) – Sun, 11-1 . Hagerdal, Nils (Public Policy) – Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Halaby, Greg (NELC) – Sun, 11-1 . Lessersohn, Nora Cherishian (History/MES) – Sun, 2-4 . Liew, Han Hsien (History/MES) – Sun, 2-4; Chair, Mon, 11-1 i . Schriber, Ari (NELC) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Shopov, Aleksandar (History/MES) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Thompson, Laura (Study of Religion) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Viengkhou, Aaron (Divinity) – Mon, 5-7 . Vodopyanov, Anya (Government)—Sat, 5:30-7:30 Current Visiting Researchers, Affiliates in Research, Fellows & Associates: . Al-Masri, Khaled (CMES Visiting Scholar) – Sun, 11-1 . Bishara, Dina (HKS Middle East Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow) – Mon, 5-7 . Falb Kalisman, Hilary (CMES Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Kamali, Maryam (CMES Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow) – Sun, 2-4 . Mestyan, Adam (Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Miller, Susan Gilson (CMES Associate) – Sun, 2-4; Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Sharafuddin, Mohammed (CMES Visiting Scholar) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 Harvard CMES Alumni/ae: . Bacharach, Jere L. (AM, MES) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Bazzaz, Sahar (PhD, History/MES)—Sat, 5:30-7:30 . Bowen Savant, Sarah (Phd, HAA/MES)—Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Chalcraft, John (PhD, History/MES) – Sun, 2-4 . Dailami, Ahmed (AM, MES) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Gelvin, James L. (PhD, History/MES)—Chair, Sat, 5:30-7:30; Chair, Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Kanna, Ahmed (AM, MES, PhD Anthro/MES) – Sun, 11-1 . Morrison, Heidi (AM, MES) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Nakissa, Aria (PhD, Anthro/MES) – Sun, 2-4 . Safran, Nina (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Tucker, Judith (PhD, History/MES) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Winder, Alex (AM, MES) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 Other Harvard Alumni/ae: . Bishara, Amahl (BA) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Calderwood, Eric (PhD, RLL) – Sun, 2-4 . Clarke, Killian (BA) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Elfenbein, Madeline (BA) – Mon, 11-1 . Eltantawi, Sarah S. – Sun, 11-1 . Foster, Angel M. (M.D., HMS) – Mon, 5-7 . Gerbakher, Ilona (HDS) – Sun, 11-1 . Halperin, Liora R. (BA) – Sun, 11-1 . Kuru, Selim (PhD, NELC) – Mon, 11-1 ii . Smith, Benjamin (PhD, NELC) – Sun, 11-1 . Stoltz, Daniel (BA) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Walker, Paul E. (BA) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Yom, Sean (MA, PhD, Government) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 Past CMES/Harvard Affiliates: . Anetshofer, Helga – Mon, 11-1 . Jiwa, Shainool – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Kuru, Selim – Chair, Sat, 5:30-7:30; Chair, Mon, 11-1 . Rollman, Wilfrid J. – Sun, 11-1 . Shahin, Emad – Sun, 2-4 . Tamari, Salim – Sun, 4:30-6:30; Tues, 1:30-3:30 iii Program 5:30-7:30PM Saturday November 21 (4022) Piety in the Turkish (4035) Arabian Identities and (4080) Globalization of Science Marketplace: Spatiality, the Nation State in the Middle East Embodiment, and Gender in the Organized by Iain Walker Organized by Sahar Bazzaz Marketing and Consumption of Chair/Discussant: Iain Walker, Max Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, Harvard U Islamic Lifestyle Commodities Planck Inst Organized by Reina Lewis On Barak, Tel Aviv U–Risk and Rizq Amal Sachedina, Brown U–Reconfig- Management: The Globalization of Chair: Carolyn Goffman, DePaul U uring Histories as Part of Nation Actuarial Science Discussant: Carla Jones, U Colorado Building: Creating the Foundation of Sara Pursley, Princeton U–“Rending the Ethics and Religiosity in the Sultanate of Veils of Time and Space”: `Ali al-Wardi, Banu Gökarıksel, UNC Chapel Hill Oman Decolonization, and the Sciences of the and Anna Secor, U Kentucky–Devout Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey– Self Masculinities: Everyday Practices Confronting ‘The Invisible Army’: Mirjam Brusius, U Oxford–Stories and Moral Geographies of Piety and Identity, Community and Migrant Labor beyond Progress and Modernity: Consumption in Istanbul and Konya, in Gulf States Archaeologies in the Ancient Near East Turkey Amin Moghadam, Sciences Po- William Carruthers, European U Ozlem Sandikci, Istanbul Sehir U–The Inalco–Building the Nation through Inst–Messy Knowledge: Science and the Halal Nail Polish: Religion and Body Intimate Relationships: The Portrait of a (Archaeological) Field in 1950s Egypt Politics in the Marketplace Transnational Love Story in Dubai Jane H. Murphy, Colorado Col–‘Strange Nazli Alimen, U of the Arts London– Andrea Wright, U Michigan–National Sciences’: Close Reading Meets Network Islamic Identities, Spaces, and Consumer Identity and Intra-Regional Belonging: Analysis of al-‘ulum al-Ghariba in the Cultures: Male Members of Menzil and Worker Solidarity, Tribal Affiliations, 18th and Early 19th Centuries Süleymanlı Faith-Inspired Communities and the Shaping of Identities in the Gulf Sahar Bazzaz, Col of the Holy Cross–The in Turkey States Arrival of the “Taxonomical Revolution” Reina Lewis, U of the Arts London– in the Arabic Speaking World: Al-Āyāt Visualizing the Umma in Modest Fashion al-bayyināt fī ʿilm al-nabāt Marketing in Turkey (4066) Tunisiaʼs Progress since the Revolution (4093) Arab New Media Theory: (4027) Black Market Mobilities: Organized by Sabina Henneberg At the Intersection of Art, Clandestine Trades and Traffic Chair: John P. Entelis, Fordham U Technology, and Scholarship in the Middle East, 1880-1940 Discussant: Eva Bellin, Brandeis U Organized by VJ Um Amel Organized by Devi Mays and Stacy Fahrenthold Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins Marwan M. Kraidy, U Pennsylvania– U–Security State and Islamism in Reconsidering the Corpus of/in New Chair/Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, U Transitional Tunisia Media Theory: From Body-as-Medium to Arizona Elizabeth R. Nugent, Princeton U– Body-as-Data? Collective Memory and the Making Laila Shereen Sakr, U Southern Stacy Fahrenthold, UC Berkeley– of the Political Cleavage Structure in California–Media Praxis: A Hybrid “Enemy Aliens” or “Alien Slackers?” Tunisia Approach to Studying the Arabic Open Syrian Ottoman Immigrants on the Elizabeth Young, U Michigan–Islam and Source Movement American Home Front, 1914-1918 Islamists in the 2014 Tunisian Elections Laura Marks, Simon Fraser U–Delicate Devi Mays, U Michigan–The Sephardi Alexander Martin, Durham U–Agents Algorithms, Hand-soldered Networks, Connection: Transnational Sephardic of Change: The Role of Tunisian and Human Nodes in Arab Media Art Smuggling Networks between Old and Civil Society in Transition from Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser U–Memes New Worlds Authoritarianism to Democratization as Meaning: Theorizing Authority and David E. Gutman, Manhattanville Col– Authorship in Arab New Media Social and Spatial Dynamics of Migrant Bassam Haddad, George Mason U– Smuggling Networks in Eastern Anatolia, Knowledge Production between Blogs 1885-1908 and Books Michael Christopher Low, Iowa State U–Pauper Pilgrims, Passports, and the Failed Regulation of Indian Ocean Mobilities MESA 2015 Preliminary Program u Page 9 5:30-7:30PM Saturday November 21 (4126) Sectarianization in the (4179) Sovereignty, (4197) Limitations and Middle East Historiography, and Visual Opportunities of Religious Organized by Nader Hashemi Culture in Middle Eastern Activism in the Middle East Museums Organized by Mona Tajali Supported by Organized by Isaac Hand Center for Middle East Studies, Discussant: Asef Bayat, U Illinois University of Denver Chair/Discussant: Asli Z. Igsiz, New Urbana-Champaign York U Chair: Danny Postel, U Denver Mahmoud Jaraba, Friedrich- Discussant: Nader Hashemi, U Denver Hannah Scott Deuchar, New York U– Alexander-U Erlangen-Nürnberg– The Palestinian Museum: The Dynamics Debating “Shariʿa Parallel Justice” in Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, U of Institutionalization and Palestinian Germany Exeter–Iranian Security Doctrine Emancipatory Politics Lihi Ben Shitrit, U Georgia– and Counterinsurgency in Syria and Jennifer Varela, New York U–Yad Domesticating the Holy: Women for Iraq: Strategic Depth, Militias and Vashem Museum: Spheres of Influence the Temple and the (In)Divisibility of Sectarianization in the Aftermath of the and Narratives of Pain Contested Sacred Places Arab Uprisings Ilker Hepkaner, New York U–The Sahar Maranlou, Oxford U–Religion: A George E. Irani, American