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The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Graduate Student Symposium is a student-led initiative that aims to engage graduate students across the University of Michigan and beyond in intellectual exchanges that support their scholarly research. Papers will be presented to an audience of primarily graduate students, but also undergraduate students and faculty at the University of Michigan, in an effort to further open the floor for diverse and constructive academic discourse concerning the MENA region.
(9:00 am) Introductions by Symposium Committee and Welcome Remarks by HAKEM-AL RUSTOM, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, University of Michigan
(9:30 am) Panel 1: Politics in the Middle-East and North Africa
ABED KANAANEH, Tel Aviv University » Muqawamah and Jihad: Two Competing Political Theologies
WILLIAM BOOSALIS, Boston College » Diverging Interests, Alliance Management, and Arms Control: Reacting to Allies Activities caused by Adversarial Arms Control Agreements
ERIN COLLINS, University of Michigan » Justifications for the Political Approach to Human Dignity: A Case Study of the Tunisian Constitution
10-minute break
(10:40 am) Panel 2: Art, Music, and Education
MOHAMAD KHALIL HARB, Harvard University » Imagining a Nation: Discourses of Nationalism in Fairuz’s Music 1950s
MOHAMMAD AL-ANSARI, University of Michigan » Education in Qatar a Research Design: The Qatari Youth and the Future
MINA TALAEE, Alzahra University » Iranian Post-revolutionary Figurative Sculpture with a Genealogical Approach
(12:30 pm) Break for Lunch – for panel presenters, discussants, and invited CMENAS MA students only
(1:35 pm) Panel 3: Gender and Space
DAN WARD and ALISSA FROMKIN, The George Washington University » Rarely Intersectional: Experiences of Queer Palestinians in Israel
STARLING CARTER and MADELAINE ASSI, The George Washington University » Horsh Beirut and the Politics of Public Space
SASA TANG, American University » Street Harassment and Political Participation in Morocco
10-minute break
(3:10 pm) Panel 4: The Islamic State and Religion
EMILY DITTMAR, University of Michigan » ISIL, Culture, History, and Violence: A Working Title
BYRON MAXEY, University of Michigan » Roots, Returns, and a Revival of Religion: Classical Roots of Indigenized Islam in the Black Atlantic
(4:30 pm) Closing Remarks by JUAN COLE, Director for the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History
(9:00 am) Introductions by Symposium Committee and Welcome Remarks by HAKEM-AL RUSTOM, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, University of Michigan
(9:30 am) Panel 1: Politics in the Middle-East and North Africa
ABED KANAANEH, Tel Aviv University » Muqawamah and Jihad: Two Competing Political Theologies
WILLIAM BOOSALIS, Boston College » Diverging Interests, Alliance Management, and Arms Control: Reacting to Allies Activities caused by Adversarial Arms Control Agreements
ERIN COLLINS, University of Michigan » Justifications for the Political Approach to Human Dignity: A Case Study of the Tunisian Constitution
10-minute break
(10:40 am) Panel 2: Art, Music, and Education
MOHAMAD KHALIL HARB, Harvard University » Imagining a Nation: Discourses of Nationalism in Fairuz’s Music 1950s
MOHAMMAD AL-ANSARI, University of Michigan » Education in Qatar a Research Design: The Qatari Youth and the Future
MINA TALAEE, Alzahra University » Iranian Post-revolutionary Figurative Sculpture with a Genealogical Approach
(12:30 pm) Break for Lunch – for panel presenters, discussants, and invited CMENAS MA students only
(1:35 pm) Panel 3: Gender and Space
DAN WARD and ALISSA FROMKIN, The George Washington University » Rarely Intersectional: Experiences of Queer Palestinians in Israel
STARLING CARTER and MADELAINE ASSI, The George Washington University » Horsh Beirut and the Politics of Public Space
SASA TANG, American University » Street Harassment and Political Participation in Morocco
10-minute break
(3:10 pm) Panel 4: The Islamic State and Religion
EMILY DITTMAR, University of Michigan » ISIL, Culture, History, and Violence: A Working Title
BYRON MAXEY, University of Michigan » Roots, Returns, and a Revival of Religion: Classical Roots of Indigenized Islam in the Black Atlantic
(4:30 pm) Closing Remarks by JUAN COLE, Director for the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History
| Building: | Michigan Union |
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| Event Type: | Conference / Symposium |
| Tags: | Area Studies, Culture, Middle East Studies, North Africa, Politics |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, International Institute |
