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(2599) Future Prospects for the
Kurds
Organized by Michael M. Gunter
Organized under the auspices of
Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies
Chair/Discussant: Michael M. Gunter,
Tennessee Technological U
Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Ahmed
Foundation for Kurdish Studies–The
KRG’s Susceptibility to Domestic and
Regional Forces
Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col–Diaspora
Voices and the Use of Kurdish Satellite TV
Nader Entessar, U of South Alabama–
Reformism, the Green Movement and
Kurdish Prospects in Iran
Hakan Ozoglu, U of Central Florida–US
Diplomatic Correspondence and the
Kurds
Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee
Technological U–The Future of Iraq’s
Relations with Its Kurdish Region
(2615) Defining the ‘Colonial’:
Dominant and Muted
Discourses
Organized by James Whidden
Discussant: Roger Owen, Harvard U
Tamara van Kessel, U of Amsterdam–
The Reception of a New “Colonizer”: The
British Council in Egypt, 1934-1954
Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington–The Soft
Heart of Empire and Its Blunt Edges:
Arab Policy in Colonial Egypt and the
Sudan
Johan Mathew, Harvard U–Gentlemanly
Capitalists and Salacious Smugglers:
Alternative Histories of Shipping in the
Arabian Sea 1873-1947
Martin Bunton, U of Victoria–Colonial
Perspectives on Agricultural Credit
in Egypt, 1882-1912: A Comparison
of Cromer’s Agricultural Bank and
Kitchener’s Five Feddan Law
James Whidden, Acadia U–Colonial
Alternatives: Lawrence and Loder on
Egypt, Syria, and Iraq
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Program
5-7PM Thursday December 1
(2645) Grassroots Syria: New
Insights into Contemporary
Society, Politics and Economics
Organized by Daniel Neep
Sponsored by
Syrian Studies Association
Chair: Daniel Neep, British Inst in
Damascus/U of Exeter
Paul Anderson, U of Cambridge–Trust
in a “Transitioning” Economy: The Rise
and Fall of Aleppo’s “Money Collectors”
Sophia Hoffmann, SOAS, U of London–
UNHCR in Syria: A Humanitarian Regime
of Sovereignty
Bethany Honeysett, Edinburgh
U–Furniture and Pickles: An
Anthropological Take on Grassroots
Syria
Sebastian Maisel, Grand Valley State U–
Construction of Yezidi Identity in Syria:
Attitudes towards Reform from the
Bottom of Society
Erik Mohns, U of Southern Denmark–
Representations of Nationness among
Palestinians in the ‘Yarmouk Camp’ of
Damascus
(2653) Public Health and
Hygiene in the Late and Post-
Ottoman World
Organized by Kent F. Schull
Chair: Emine O. Evered, Michigan State U
Omer Turan, Middle East Technical
U–Proselytization and Public Health:
The Medical Missions of American
Protestants in the Ottoman Empire
Cihangir Gundogdu, U of Chicago–The
1876 Mental Health Regulation and
Officialization of Mental Health Services
in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ibrahim Halil Kalkan, New York U–
Public Hygiene and Social Control in
Turn of the Century Istanbul (1876-1909)
Kent F. Schull, U of Memphis–“In
Conformity with the Laws of
Civilization”: Health and Hygiene in
Ottoman Prisons during the Second
Constitutional Period
Yucel Yanikdag, U of Richmond–
Measuring Civilization with
Syphilization?: Ottoman Turkish
Responses to European (Pseudo-)Science
(2664) Twentieth-Century
Muslim Thinkers in
Conversation with Tradition
Organized by Ahmed El Shamsy
Chair/Discussant: Umar Ryad, Leiden
Inst of Religious Studies
Amin Venjara, Princeton U–Debating
Translation: Politics of Qur’an
Translation in Early 20th Century Egypt
Jonathan Brown, Georgetown U–
Miracles in Our Present Day: A
Traditionalist Scholar Negotiating Saints
and Miracles in Early 20th Century Egypt
& Syria
Yasmeen Daifallah, UC Berkeley–The
Political Subject in Contemporary Arab
Thought: Jaberi’s “Critique of Arab
Reason” as a Case in Point
Ahmed El Shamsy, U of Chicago–
Negotiating Tradition via Edition: The
Editing Projects of Ahmad Shakir
Mohammad H. Khalil, Michigan State
U–Rethinking the Criterion for Non-
Muslim Salvation: The Case of Rashīd
Riḍā
(2674) The Specter of
Authenticity in Persian Literary
Discourse
Organized by Samad J. Alavi
Chair/Discussant: Franklin D. Lewis, U
of Chicago
Daniel Rafinejad, UCLA–Problems
in Autobiography in Classical Persian
Poetry
Kevin Schwartz, UC Berkeley–Attitudes
and Perceptions of the Bâzgasht-i
Ababî’s (Literary Return) Early Founders
Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine–Savushun
and the Paradoxes of Authenticity
Samad J. Alavi, UC Berkeley–Revolutionary
Poet or Rebel Sloganeer?: Sa’id
Soltanpur and His Critics