MESA ANNUAL MEETING 2011 December 1‐4 Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC The following listing of CMES and Harvard Affiliated speakers was compiled from the MESA Program that was posted in October. 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: http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/pdf/11_preliminary_program.pdf Pages 1‐2 Harvard Affiliate Listing with session times Pages 3‐46 MESA Program with Harvard Affiliate names highlighted Harvard Affiliate listing with day(s)/time(s) of MESA sessions Harvard Faculty: . Doherty, Gareth (Lecturer in Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning / Design) – Fri, 2‐4 . Frye, Richard N. (Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, Emeritus) – Sat, 5‐7 . Kafadar, Cemal (Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Miller, Susan Gilson (CMES Associate) – Sat, 11‐1; Sat, 5‐7 . Mottahedeh, Roy (Gurney Professor of History) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Najmabadi, Afsaneh (Professor of Women's Studies; Professor of History) – Sun, 11‐1 . Owen, E. Roger (A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History) – Thurs, 5‐7; Fri, 4:30‐6:30 . Zeghal, Malika (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought & Life) – Sat, 11‐1 Harvard Students: . Balbale, Abigail Krasner (G7 History/MES) – Sat, 2:30‐4:30 . Egemen, Melih (History) – Sat, 11‐1 . Gerbakher, Ilona (G1 Divinity) – Sat, 2:30‐4:30 . Gordon, Jennifer (G4 History/MES) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Kibler, Bethany (G1 Anthropology/MES) – Sun, 1:30‐3:30 . Li, Darryl (G8 Anthropology/MES) – Fri, 2‐4 . Mathew, Johan (History) – Thurs, 5‐7 . McCormick, Jared (Anthropology) – Sat, 5‐7 . Orkaby, Asher (G3 History/MES) – Sun, 11‐1 . Peric, Sabrina (Anthropology) – Fri, 2‐4 . Quinn, Meredith (History) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Salikuddin, Rubina (G5 History/MES) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Sopov, Aleksandar (G5 History/MES) – Sun, 1:30‐3:30 . Vodopyanov, Anya (Government) – Sat, 11‐1 1 Current Visiting Researchers: . Ben‐Yehoyada, Naor (CMES Post‐doctoral Fellow; PhD '11, Anthropology) – Fri, 2‐4 . Clement, Anne (WCFIA Fellow) – Sat, 2:30‐4:30 CMES & Harvard Alumni/ae: . Bulliet, Richard W. (PhD '67, History/MES) – Sat, 11‐1 . DeGeorges, Thomas (PhD '06, History/MES) – Sat, 11‐1 . El Shamsy, Ahmed (PhD '09, History/MES) – Thurs, 5‐7 . Erdemir, Aykan (PhD '04, History/MES) – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Esdaile, James (PhD '11, History/MES; WCFIA Fellow) – Sun, 11‐1 . Fitzgerald, Timothy J. (PhD '09, History/MES) – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Fudge, Bruce (PhD, NELC) – Sat, 11‐1 . Gottreich, Emily (PhD '99, History/MES) – Sun, 8:30‐10:30 . Karakaya‐Stump, Ayfer (PhD '08, History/MES) – Fri, 2‐4 . Kuru, Selim (PhD, NELC) – Sat, 5‐7 . Lockman, Zachary (PhD '83, History/MES) – Fri, 2‐4; Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Maddy‐Weitzman, Bruce (PhD '77, History/MES) – Fri, 4:30‐6:30 . Marglin, Jessica M. (AM '07, MES) – Sat, 11‐1 . Naaman, Erez (PhD ’09, NELC; CMES VR 09‐10) – Fri, 4:30‐6:30 . Shafir, Nir (AM '08, MES) – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Shechter, Relli I. (PhD '99, History/MES) – Fri, 11‐1 . Stilt, Kristen (PhD '04, History/MES) – Sat, 11‐1 . Terc, Mandy (AM '04, MES) – Sat, 2:30‐4:30 . Trepanier, Nicolas (PhD ’08, History/MES) – Fri, 11‐1 . Volk, Lucia (PhD '01, Anthropology/MES) – Fri, 11‐1 . Wittmann, Richard (PhD '08, History/MES; CMES VR 10‐11) – Sun, 1:30‐3:30 . Yom, Sean (PhD '09, Government) – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Yuksel Muslu, Cihan (PhD '07, History/MES) – Fri, 11‐1 Past CMES Affiliates: . Bellin, Eva – Fri, 11‐1 . Dailami, Ahmed – Sun, 8:30‐10:30 . Foster, Angel M. – Sun, 11‐1; Sun, 1:30‐3:30 . Goldberg, Ellis – Fri, 11‐1; Fri, 2‐4 . Ho, Engseng – Fri, 2‐4 . Menoret, Pascal – Fri, 11‐1 . Pearlman, Wendy – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Schayegh, Cyrus – Fri, 2‐4 . Sedghi, Hamideh – Thurs, 5‐7 . Shahin, Emad – Fri, 2‐4 . Sluglett, Peter – Fri, 2‐4; Sat, 5‐7 2 Program 5-7PM Thursday December 1 (2599) Future Prospects for the (2645) Grassroots Syria: New Yucel Yanikdag, U of Richmond– Kurds Insights into Contemporary Measuring Civilization with Organized by Michael M. Gunter Syphilization?: Ottoman Turkish Society, Politics and Economics Responses to European (Pseudo-)Science Organized by Daniel Neep Organized under the auspices of (2664) Twentieth-Century Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies Sponsored by Muslim Thinkers in Chair/Discussant: Michael M. Gunter, Syrian Studies Association Conversation with Tradition Organized by Ahmed El Shamsy Tennessee Technological U Chair: Daniel Neep, British Inst in Damascus/U of Exeter Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Ahmed Chair/Discussant: Umar Ryad, Leiden Inst of Religious Studies Foundation for Kurdish Studies–The Paul Anderson, U of Cambridge–Trust KRG’s Susceptibility to Domestic and in a “Transitioning” Economy: The Rise Amin Venjara, Princeton U–Debating Regional Forces and Fall of Aleppo’s “Money Collectors” Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col–Diaspora Translation: Politics of Qur’an Sophia Hoffmann, SOAS, U of London– Translation in Early 20th Century Egypt Voices and the Use of Kurdish Satellite TV UNHCR in Syria: A Humanitarian Regime Jonathan Brown, Georgetown U– Nader Entessar, U of South Alabama– of Sovereignty Miracles in Our Present Day: A Reformism, the Green Movement and Bethany Honeysett, Edinburgh Traditionalist Scholar Negotiating Saints Kurdish Prospects in Iran U–Furniture and Pickles: An and Miracles in Early 20th Century Egypt Hakan Ozoglu, U of Central Florida–US Anthropological Take on Grassroots & Syria Diplomatic Correspondence and the Syria Yasmeen Daifallah, UC Berkeley–The Kurds Sebastian Maisel, Grand Valley State U– Political Subject in Contemporary Arab Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Construction of Yezidi Identity in Syria: Thought: Jaberi’s “Critique of Arab Technological U–The Future of Iraq’s Attitudes towards Reform from the Reason” as a Case in Point Relations with Its Kurdish Region Bottom of Society Ahmed El Shamsy, U of Chicago– Erik Mohns, U of Southern Denmark– Negotiating Tradition via Edition: The (2615) Defining the ‘Colonial’: Representations of Nationness among Editing Projects of Ahmad Shakir Dominant and Muted Palestinians in the ‘Yarmouk Camp’ of Mohammad H. Khalil, Michigan State Discourses Damascus U–Rethinking the Criterion for Non- Organized by James Whidden Muslim Salvation: The Case of Rashīd (2653) Public Health and Riḍā Discussant: Roger Owen, Harvard U Hygiene in the Late and Post- Ottoman World (2674) The Specter of Tamara van Kessel, U of Amsterdam– Organized by Kent F. Schull Authenticity in Persian Literary The Reception of a New “Colonizer”: The Discourse British Council in Egypt, 1934-1954 Chair: Emine O. Evered, Michigan State U Organized by Samad J. Alavi Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington–The Soft Heart of Empire and Its Blunt Edges: Omer Turan, Middle East Technical Chair/Discussant: Franklin D. Lewis, U Arab Policy in Colonial Egypt and the U–Proselytization and Public Health: of Chicago Sudan The Medical Missions of American Johan Mathew, Harvard U–Gentlemanly Protestants in the Ottoman Empire Daniel Rafinejad, UCLA–Problems Capitalists and Salacious Smugglers: Cihangir Gundogdu, U of Chicago–The in Autobiography in Classical Persian Alternative Histories of Shipping in the 1876 Mental Health Regulation and Poetry Arabian Sea 1873-1947 Officialization of Mental Health Services Kevin Schwartz, UC Berkeley–Attitudes Martin Bunton, U of Victoria–Colonial in the Late Ottoman Empire and Perceptions of the Bâzgasht-i Perspectives on Agricultural Credit Ibrahim Halil Kalkan, New York U– Ababî’s (Literary Return) Early Founders in Egypt, 1882-1912: A Comparison Public Hygiene and Social Control in Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine–Savushun of Cromer’s Agricultural Bank and Turn of the Century Istanbul (1876-1909) and the Paradoxes of Authenticity Kitchener’s Five Feddan Law Kent F. Schull, U of Memphis–“In Samad J. Alavi, UC Berkeley–Revolu- James Whidden, Acadia U–Colonial Conformity with the Laws of tionary Poet or Rebel Sloganeer?: Sa’id Alternatives: Lawrence and Loder on Civilization”: Health and Hygiene in Soltanpur and His Critics Egypt, Syria, and Iraq Ottoman Prisons during the Second Constitutional Period Page 8 u MESA 2011 Preliminary Program 5-7PM Thursday December 1 (2677) Death as a Category The following session “kicks-off” the Anthropology Hala Yehia Abd El-Wahab, American U of Analysis in Middle East of the Middle East: A New Millennium series in Cairo–Investigating the Effects of AFL of sessions that are scheduled throughout the Learners’ Use of L1 in the L2 Learning Scholarship Process Organized by Shane E. Minkin program. Look for the A-ME designation. Hanan Hassanein, American U in Cairo–Dyslexia and Learning Arabic as a Chair: Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore A-ME Foreign Language Col Laila Al-Sawi, American U in Cairo– Discussant: Miri Shefer, Tel Aviv U (2698) Anthropology of the Pronunciation: A Key to Better Middle East: A New Millennium Communication Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore Organized by Suad Joseph Col–Dissecting Death: Postmortems, (2759) New Perspectives on Governance and Belonging in British Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis Egypt, 1882-1914 Citizenship in the Gulf Organized by Kristin Smith Diwan Amy Motlagh, American U in Cairo–Of Brinkley Messick, Columbia U Gardens and Graveyards: Examining Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia U Chair: Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U Heterotopic Space in Postrevolutionary Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth Col Iranian Fiction Discussant: Noora Lori, Johns Hopkins Lerna Ekmekcioglu, U of Michigan–“We U/Dubai Schl of Government Can’t Let the Dead Die”: Politics of (2721)