MESA 2007 Meetings in Conjunction

The following is a list of events held in conjunction with the MESA 2007 annual meeting in Montreal.

The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 12nn-2pm, Hyatt-Alfred Rouleau C
Contact: Stephanie Platz stephanie@taarii.org

American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 9am-12nn, Palais-512C
panel, Saturday, 11/17, 1:30-3:30pm, Palais-513A
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 4-5pm, Palais-513A
Contact: Elizabeth M. Bergman emb@georgetown.edu

American Association of Teachers of Persian (AATP)
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 12nn-2pm, Palais-513B
Contact: Soheila Amirsoleimani Soheila1@gmail.com

American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT)
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 10-11pm, Palais-518A
Contact: Erika Gilson ehgilson@princeton.edu

American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 3-5pm, Palais-512A
Contact: Erica Ehrenberg aiis@nyc.rr.com

American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
Oversearch Research Centers executive committee dinner, Friday, 11/16, 5-7pm, Hyatt-Ete des Indiens
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 10am-1:30pm, Palais-512A
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 3-5pm, Palais-513B
Contact: Kerry Adams aimscmes@email.arizona.edu

American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 2-4pm, Hyatt-Alfred Rouleau C
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 4-5pm, Palais-512F
Contact: Ria Ellis melis@sas.upenn.edu

American University in Cairo (AUC)
Reception, Satuday, 11/17, 8-10pm, Hyatt-Alfred-Rouleau A
Contact: Mariam Fouad mfouad@aucnyo.edu

Association for Israel Studies (AIS)
reception, Saturday, 11/17, 7:30-9pm, Hyatt-Picardie A
Contact: Robert O. Freedman rofreedman@comcast.net

Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)
JMEWS board/business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 2-3:15pm, Palais-513E
AMEWS board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 3:15-4:30pm, Palais-513D
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 5-6pm, Palais-519A
panel/dinner, Saturday, 11/17, 6-9pm, Palais-519A
Contact: Amaney Jamal ajamal@princeton.edu

Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)
Journal of Persianate Studies editorial board meeting, Sunday, 11/18, 12:30-2pm, Hyatt-Auteuil A
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 2-3pm, Palais-512F
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 3-4pm, Palais-512G
reception, Saturday, 11/17, 7-8:30pm, Hyatt-Auteuil A
Contact: Said Arjomand said.arjomand@stonybrook.edu

Brill Academic Publishers
Encyclopedia of Islam panel, Saturday, 11/17, 2-5pm, Palais-524C
Contact: Maurits van den Boogert boogert@brill.nl

Canadian Committee of MESA (CANMES)
business meeting, Sunday, 11/18, 12nn-1:30pm, Palais-513A
Rights and Democracy and CANMES Feature Panel: "Democratic Transition in Majority Islamic Countries of Maghreb, Middle East and Asia: Present Situation and Future Prospects", Monday, 11/19, 3-5:30pm, Palais-518C
reception, Monday, 11/19, 6:30-8pm, Palais-513A

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Razmik Panossian, Director, Policy, Programmes and Planning, Rights & Democracy
Amal Ghazal, CANMES President, Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University

Moderator

Paul Kingston, Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Panelists

Mona Makram-Ebeid, Member of Parliament (1990-1995), Distinguished Lecturer, Political Science Department, AUC, President, Association for Advancement of Education
Understanding Challenges

Akbar Ganji, Sociologist, Journalist, Writer and Human Rights Activist
Foundations of Democratic Evolution in Iran: A proposed Thesis

Rachida Afilal, Sociologist, Professor-Researcher, Institute for Scientific Research, Rabat and Coordinator for the Programme Leadership Féminin, Morocco
Women’s Rights and Democratic Transitions in Morocco

Ully Mulyandari, Assistant to MP Nursyahbani, PKB Gus Dur’s Political Party, National Parliament of the Republic of Indonesia and National Coordinator, Aliansi Perempuan Untuk Keterwakilan Politik
The Women’s Rights Movement in Indonesia after the Political Reform

Elia Zureik, Professor Emeritus in Sociology at Queen’s University
The Possibility of Transformation from Authoritarianism to Democracy in Palestine

Fadi Hammoud, Journalist and Middle-East Expert
Obstacles facing the Establishment of a True Democracy in Lebanon and other Middle Eastern Countries

Contact: Amal Ghazal amal.ghazal@dal.ca

Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA)
governing board, Saturday, 11/17, 7-10:30pm, Palais-515A
consortium luncheon, Sunday, 11/18, 1-3pm, Palais-512E
Contact: Fiorenza Bruni utcasa@austin.utexas.edu

Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
ORC Directors meeting, Sunday, 11/18, 8-10am, Palais-513C
Contact: Kerry Adams aimscmes@email.arizona.edu

Directors of MESA's Affiliated Organizations
annual meeting, Monday, 11/19, 7:30-8:30am, Palais-512B
Contact: Amy Newhall newhall@u.arizona.edu

Eastern Consortium for Persian and Turkish
meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 2-4pm, Hyatt-Picardie B

EWIC Arabic Launch MESA/UC DAVIS
panel, Sunday, 11/18, 4:30-6:30pm, Palais-524A
Contact: Megan Fowler ewic@ucdavis.edu

International Development Research Council of Canada
Seminar on Regional Consultation on Women’s Rights and Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa, Sunday, 11/18, 11:30am-2:30pm, Palais-515C
Panel on Political Party Development and Democratization in the Middle East, Sunday, 11/18, 3-5:30pm, Palais-513A
Contact for 1st panel: Roksana Bahramitash roksana.bahramitash@umontreal.ca
Contact for 2nd panel: Charaf Ahmimed cahmimed@idrc.ca

International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES)
manuscript open house, Saturday 11/17, 4-5pm, Palais-512C
The IJMES editor and assistant editor welcome authors with papers at any stage of the writing process, from idea aborning to nearly finished manuscript. Come talk before you submit!
Contact: Sylvia Whitman ijmes@georgetown.edu

International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 1-3pm, Palais-512B
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 3-4pm, Palais-511C
Contact: Mansour Bonakdarian mbonakd@yahoo.com

Journal of MIddle East Women's Studies (JMEWS)
board/business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 2-3:15pm, Palais-513E

Lebanese American University (LAU)
alumni reception, Saturday, 11/17, 8-10pm, Hyatt-Argenteuil
Contact: Edward M. Shiner ed.shiner@lau.edu

McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies
reception, Saturday, 11/17, 7:30-9pm, Hyatt-Alfred-Rouleau C
Contact: Ann Yaxley ann.yaxley@mcgill.ca

MESA Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF)
annual meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 12nn-3pm, Palais-521A/B
report on 2007 activities, Saturday, 11/17, 3-5pm, Palais-524B

The State of Academic Freedom: A Report by MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom

Chair: Laurie Brand, University of Southern California

Gershon Shafir, UC San Diego
Academic Freedom Under Occupation in Israel/Palestine
Juan Cole, University of Michigan
Smear Campaigns, False Balance and Propaganda in the Response to Mearsheimer and Walt
Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State University
Defending Academic Freedom on Campus: A Case Study
Mary Ann Tétreault, Trinity University
'American' Education in the Middle East
Yektan Turkyilmaz, Duke University
Academic Freedom: The Case of Turkey

Contact: Amy Newhall newhall@u.arizona.edu

Middle East Center and Program Directors
annual meeting, Monday, 11/19, 9-11am, Palais-512E
Contact: Amy Newhall newhall@u.arizona.edu

Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)
program, Thursday, 11/15, 9am-12:30pm, Best Western Ville-Marie Hotel
business meeting, Friday, 11/16, 9am-12nn, Best Western Ville-Marie Hotel
Contact: Karen Kern kernk@pdx.edu

Middle East Medievalists (MEM)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 12:30-1:30pm, Palais-515A
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 1:30-2:30pm, Palais-512E
panel, Saturday, 11/17, 2:30-4:30pm, Palais-512E
Contact: Steven Judd judds1@southernct.edu

Middle East Outreach Council (MEOC)
teachers workshop, Saturday, 11/17, 8:30am-3pm, Palais-511D
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 3-6pm, Palais-511D
Contact: Jean Campbell campbej@pdx.edu

Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
committee on academic freedom meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 12nn-3pm, Palais-521A/B
publications committee meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 3-4pm, Palais-512C
committee on public affairs meeting, Monday, 11/19, 5:30-7pm, Palais-512B

NITLE Al-Musharaka Initiative
NITLE Al-Musharaka Collaborative Annual Meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 2-2:45pm, Palais-513C
Roundtable on Middle East Studies and the Liberal Arts Classroom (open to the public), Saturday, 11/17, 3-4:15pm, Palais-513C
Contact Michael Toler michael.toler@nitle.org

Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 11am-3pm, Palais-515B
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 4-5pm, Palais-515C
Contact: Penelope Mitchell pmitch21@aol.com

University of Oxford, Middle East Centre
reception, Saturday, 11/17, 7:30-9pm, Hyatt-Alfred-Rouleau B
Contact: Eugene Rogan eugene.rogan@sant.ox.ac.uk

Society for Armenian Studies (SAS)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 2-3pm, Palais-515A
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 3-4:45pm, Palais 513F
Contact: Barlow Der Mugrdechian barlowd@csufresno.edu

Society for Shaykhi, Babi, and Bahai Studies (SSBBS)
panel, Saturday, 11/17, 3-5pm, Palais-519B
Contact: Sholeh Quinn quinn@ohio.edu

SSBBS Panel

Chair: Sholeh Quinn, Ohio University

Stephen Lambden, Ohio University
Jafr and 'ilm al-huruf in the Writings of Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad the Bab
(1819-1850) with Special Reference to the Khutba 'ilm al-huruf
Mina Yazdani, University of Toronto
Abu al-Fazl Gulpaygani: An Ante Litteram Critic of Orientalism
Arash Abizadeh, McGill University
Mysticism meets Modernity: Politics, Detachment, and Humour

Syrian Studies Association (SSA)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 9-11am, Palais-512B
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 4-5pm, Palais-513E
reception, Saturday, 11/17, 5:15-7pm, Hyatt-Anjou
Contact: Annie Higgins higginsuf@yahoo.com

Turkish Studies Association (TSA)
board meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 12nn-2pm, Palais-513D
business meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 8-10pm, Palais-518A
reception, Saturday 11/17, 7-8pm, Palais-524C
Contact: Paul Kaldjian kaldjian@uwec.edu

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
Panel on Challenges Facing Palestinian Refugees Today, Saturday, 11/17, 6-8pm, Palais-513F
Contact: Saahir Lone lone1@un.org

Yale University Press
A Model of Success: Teaching with Ahlan wa Sahlan, Presented by Nesreen Akhtarkhavari, DePaul University, Monday, 11/19, 11am-12nn, Palais-516E
Contact: Nesreen Akhtarkhavari NAKHTARK@depaul.edu