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Love and Desire in Persian Art and Literature, Past and Present
Discussant: Franklin Lewis
Constituting Love in the Iranian Popular Commercial Cinema
Pedram Partovi, University of Chicago
The Illustrated Divan of Hafez: Imitation and Meaning in a Copy at the University of Michigan Special Collections Library
Meggie Shortle, University of Chicago
Love, Loss, and the Color Black, from the Medieval Romance to the Modern Short Story
Cameron Cross, University of Chicago
Historicizing War in Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon
History in Translation: English-Language Propaganda from the Iran-Iraq War, 1980 to 1984
Carl Shook, University of Chicago
Passive and Active Iranian Heroes: Transformations of the “Karbala Paradigm” as Portrayed in Iranian Film
Tamara C. Mackenthun, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
Trauma and Representation: Recent Middle Eastern Histories
David Markus, University of Chicago
Heresy, Orthodoxy and Historiography in Early Modern States
Discussant: Alidost Numan
Bāyazīd b. Sultan Sulaymān in Safavid Historiography
Austin O’Malley, University of Chicago
Muslim Cosmopolitan Culture and Ottoman Religious Scholars
Abdurrahman Atcil, University of Chicago
Heresy and Persecution: Melami-Bayrami Order in the Ottoman Empire; between the 16th-18th Centuries
Ali Erken, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Music: Narratives of Space and Nation
Discussant: Evrim Binbas
Transnational Encounters in Music: Eduard Zuckmayer and the Modernization of Music Education in Turkey (1890 – 1950)
Pelin Kadercan, University of Rochester
“Beautiful Voice” Narratives of Istanbul: Localizing Discourse on the Islamic Call to Prayer
Eve McPherson, University of California at Santa Barbara
Teotig’s Amenun Daretsuytsĕ (Almanac For All) and its Yerajshdagan (Music) Pages
Melissa Bilal, University of Chicago
The Mizmar, Oboe, and Syrian Music
Andrea Shaheen, University of Arizona
At Home in the World: Life in Middle Eastern Diasporas
Discussant: Ori Yehudai
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, and the Shari’a: the Production of Islamic Legal
Knowledges and “The Muslim Woman” in the French-North African Diaspora
Natasha Dar, Stanford University
At Home in the World: Lebanese Migrant Lives in West Africa, 1890-1939
Andrew Arsan, University of Cambridge
Ottoman Emigration to Argentina 1870-1914
Kazim Baycar, Bogazici University
Mapping the Archives: Interpretations of Gendered Labor in New York City’s Pre-WWI Syrian American Communities
Jess Bier, City University of New York
Old Ottomans, Young Turks: Politics, Faith and Geography
Discussant: Yasar Tolga Cora
Was the Meşihat Secular or Religious? The Young Turks, the Ulema and the Decline of the Ottoman Şeyhülislam (1908-1917)
Nurullah Ardıç, İstanbul Şehir University
Establishing the Legitimacy in the Early Republican Turkey: The Case of the 150ers
Hakan Ozoglu, University of Central Florida
Nationalism: Out of the Ottoman Mind?
Mark Aymes, Cornell University
Settling the Empire: Habil Adem on Imperial/Colonial Order
Zeynep Bilginsoy, New York University
Early Islamic Literature and Political Thought
Discussant: Vasileios Syros
Language, Political Action and Communities in Medieval Arabic and Persian Contexts
Jennifer A. London, University of Chicago
Al-Ma’mun and the Mu’tazila: Analysis of the Religious and Political Relationships
Based on the Last Recovered Sources
Marco Demichelis, University of Genoa
Gender, Nation and Popular Culture in the Modern Middle East
Discussant: Noha Abulmagd Forster
Masculinity Under Fire: Palestinian Nationalists in British Officials’ Memoirs
Nadim Y. Bawalsa, Georgetown University
Dabkat Rajuliyya: Popular Culture and Nationalism in Contemporary Syria
Shayna Silverstein, University of Chicago
Dressing the Ottoman Lady: Fashion and Women’s Rights in the Ottoman Journal
“Mahasin”
Esra Tasdelen, University of Chicago
Trials of Empire in the Late Ottoman Period
Discussant: Flora Roberts
The Failure of Ottomanism:The Albanian Rebellions 1910-1912
James N. Tallon, University of Chicago
Intelligence activities in the Balkans during the Crimean War (1853-1856)
Ibrahim Köremezli, Bilkent University
All that Glitters is not Gold: Nineteenth Century Reform and Bankruptcy in Egypt and
Ottoman Turkey
Joseph Yackley, University of Chicago
International Politics and Foreign Intervention in the Middle East
Discussant: Rusty Rook
Buffer or Lightning Rod? The U.S. Commitment to Jordan in the Context of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1957-1965
Avshalom Rubin, University of Chicago
The Development of the Relations between the United States and Tripoli Province in the West 1776-1802
Jamal Hashim Ahmed, al-Dhuwaib, al-Anbar University
Anglo-Ottoman Relations in the Persian Gulf in the Era of Abdulhamid II
Bilal Emre Biral, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
The Contradiction between Nationalism and Internationalism: the Azerbaijan National Government in Iran (1945-1946)
Mehrak Kamali, University of Arizona
Peace, Politics and Reform: Neoliberalism in the Middle East
Discussant: Hadas Weiss
The Real Profits and False Prophets of Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Matt Berkman, New York University
The Neoliberal Technocracy: a Comparative Insight from the Turkish Case in the 1980s
Umud Dalgic, Northwestern University
The Social Contract and Egypt’s Politics of Retrenchment in the Neo-liberal Era
Asya El-Meehy, University of California at Berkeley
Dream, Eschatology, and History in Pre-Modern Islam
Discussant: Cornell Fleischer
Ibn Babawayh’s Dream: Shi’ite History through the Lens of the Ghayba
Edmund Hayes, University of Chicago
Mystical Love as the Day of Judgment: Eschatology in Jalal al-Din Rumi’s Divan-i Kabir
Ferenc Csirkes, University of Chicago
Dreams, Anxiety and Intellectual Pursuits in the Post-Suleymanic Ottoman Empire: Veysi Effendi and his Dream Book
Ahmed Tunc Sen, University of Chicago
