Program

Friday November 04, Munk Centre

1:30-2:00: Opening Remarks: David Naylor, President (University of Toronto)

2:00-3:30 Panel: "Middle East Studies in the US post 9/11"

Chair: Jim Reilly (UofT)

Zachary Lockman: "Middle Eastern Studies in the United States: An Academic Field and its Enemies"
Beshara Doumani: "Academic Freedom after September 11"
Juan Cole: "The Future of Middle East Studies Association of North America"
Leila Fawaz: "Overcoming East-West Dichotomies: the Eastern Mediterranean as a Paradigm" 

4:00-5:30 Panel: “Middle East Studies in Canada: between the Past and the Present”

Chair: Paul Kingston (UTSC)

Tareq Ismael (Calgary), “"The International Association of Middle Eastern Studies: Its Canadian Roots"
Amila Buturovic (York), “Teaching Islam in Canada: Challenges and Changes”
Nasrine Rahimieh (McMaster), “Boundaries and Border-Crossings in Middle East Studies”
Shahrzad Mojab (UofT), “Women of the Middle East as 'Muslim Women': A Critique of Feminist Orientalism”

6:00-7:00 Reception Munk Centre

7:00-8:00

Keynote Address: Ato Quayson, Director, University of Toronto Centre of Transnational Studies

“Diasporas and Interdisciplinarity”.

Saturday November 05, Massey College, University of Toronto

8:00-9:00 Breakfast (Catered)

9:00-10:30 Panel: "Categories of rule – categories of thought;
Challenging epistemological conventions in the Middle East and the West"

Chair: Janine Clark

MEDANI, Khalid, Political Science and Islamic Studies, McGill University; Visiting Fellow (CISAC) Stanford University 2005-2006
“Bringing the Middle East “Back In”: Comparative Institutional Analysis and the Study of Middle East Politics post 9/11”
HAKLAI, Oded, Political Studies (Queens) “Studying Social Categories in the Middle East”
MERSAL, Iman, Middle Eastern and African Studies/Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (Alberta)
Orienting Occidentalism”
HABIB, Jasmin, Global Studies (Wilfrid Laurier) “Secular or Religious; The Call for a ‘real’ Jewish state”

10:30-12:00 "Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Difference "

Chair: William Cleveland (SFU)

PARSONS, Laila, History/Islamic Studies (McGill) “Soldiering Arab Nationalism: The Life and Times of Fawzi al-Qawuqji”
MAS, Ruth (Wilfrid Laurier University) “The Politics of Difference in the Thought of Franco-Maghrebi Intellectuals”
BROCKETT, Gavin, History (Wilfrid Laurier) “The Turkish Press and the Reassertion of a Muslim National Identity”
HARTMAN, Michelle, Institute of Islamic Studies (McGill) “Reading the Nation in Lebanese Literature”

12:00-01:00 LUNCH (Catered)

13:00-02:30: "Cultural Formations in Islamic History" 

Chair: Virginia Aksan(McMaster)

MILWRIGHT, Marcus, Fine Arts (Victoria), Reconstructing the industrial history of an Early Islamic city: t
he case of Raqqa-Rafiqa, Syria"
SALEH Walid NMC (UofT) “The Study of the Quran and the History of its Interpretation”
HEHMEYER, Ingrid, History, Ryerson University “Scientific Knowledge in the Medieval Islamic World
and its Transmission to Christian Europe”
MITCHELL, Colin, History (Dalhousie) “New Sources for the Insha Genre in medieval Iran”

02:30-03:45 "Women and conflict: the cases of Israel/Palestine, Iraq and Algeria"

Chair: Hassanpour, Amir (UofT)

BOULBY, Marion, History (Trent) “Israeli, Islamist and Feminist; Breaking down the boundaries of patriarchy”
SEFERDJELI, Ryme, History (Ottawa) “The FLN and the moudjahidate during the Algerian War (1954-62).”
ISMAEL, Jacqueline, Social Work (Calgary) "Whither Iraqi Women in the Occupied State".

03:45-4:15 Break

04:15-05:30 Panel: "Practices and Discourses of Colonialism”

Chair: Nahla Abdo (Carleton)

KÜHN, Thomas, History (Simon Fraser) “The Making of Colonial Ottomanism, 1872-1919”
SEDRA, Paul, History (Dalhousie/New York) “Textbook Maneuvers: Evangelicals and Educational Reform
in Nineteenth-Century Egypt"
BUNTON, Martin, History (Victoria) “Colonial Land Policies in the Modern Middle East”