World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

Barcelona, July 19th - 24th 2010

Panel

• Arab Americans (223)

  · Date: WED, 21 / 11.30 am -1.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Arab and Islamic Humor (255)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Catholic University of Milan / SESAMO (Italy)

  · Organizer: Paolo Branca

  · Language: English/Français

• CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 1/3: Christian Life in Wider Contexts (306)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of Stirling (Scotland)

  · Organizer: Dr. Michael Marten

  · Language: English

• CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 2/3: Political and social negotiations of spaces (318)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Stirling (Scotland)

  · Organizer: Dr. Michael Marten

  · Language: English

• CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 3/3: Middle Eastern Christians in a globalised world (359)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Stirling (Scotland)

  · Organizer: Dr. Michael Marten

  · Language: English

• Cinema and Society (412)

  · Language: English, Français

• Cultural heritage, legislation and management (208)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Language: English, Français

• Cultural Politics in Liberalizing Turkey (191)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: School of Anthropology, University of Arizona (USA)

  · Organizer: Brian Silverstein

  · Language: English

• Cultural Turn in Iran's June 2009 Post-Election Uprising (372)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: New York University (USA)

  · Organizer: Shouleh Vatanabadi and Mehdi Khorrami

  · Language: English

• Egyptian Cinema (345)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English, Français

• Food Habits and Food Problems in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean Area (213)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Universitat oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona (Spain)

  · Organizer: F. Xavier Medina

  · Sponsored by: Departamento de Sistema Alimentarios, Cultura y Sociedad -Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) / International Commission on the Anthropology of Food (ICAF).

  · Language: English/Français

• Historical Approaches of Music (413)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 9:00 - 11:00 am

  · Language: English, Français

• (Hyper)Realities on Stage in the Arab Gulf (134)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Centre for Modern Oriental Studies - ZMO (Germany)

  · Organizer: Katrin Bromber

  · Language: English

• Iran and the West: Contacts and Mutual Perceptions (174)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Virginia Military Institute (USA)

  · Organizer: Elena Andreeva

  · Language: English

• Iraq in the 1990s: Cultural and Political Trends (054)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: George Washington University (USA)

  · Organizer: Dina Rizk Khoury

  · Language: English

• ISLAM AND GENDER: THE PROMISES AND THE LIMITATIONS - 1/2: Negotiating Spaces for Gendered Islam (286)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Mohammed V University- Rabat (Morocco)

  · Organizer: Ilham Sadoqi

  · Language: English

• Language of Art (297)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Language: English, Français

• Les esprits du changement. Représentations maghrébines du rapport nature-culture: le cas des jnoun (018)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Espagne)

  · Organizer: Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

  · Language: Français

• Maghrebi Migration to Spain: European and North African Cultural Representations (179)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of Miami (USA)

  · Organizer: Christina Civantos

  · Language: English

• MEETING PLACE OF TWO OCEANS (MAJMA'AL-BA'RAYN): MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF MIDDLE EAST - 5/5: How Does One ''Oriental'' Entity Meet Another? Reception of Modern Middle Eastern Literature in Japan (140-b)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30 pm- 4.30 pm

  · Institution: Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University (Japan)

  · Organizer: Mari OKA

  · Language: English

• Music and Society (138)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• New media experiences, communication networks and changing social relations in Turkey (160)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: California State University, San Bernardino (USA)

  · Organizer: Ece Algan

  · Language: English

• Orientalisme et Art Nouveau (205)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English, Français

• PALESTINIAN DIASPORAS, POLITICAL CULTURES AND TRANS/NATIONAL BUILDING PROJECTS - 1/3: Identity, Memory and Displacement (171)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Carleton University (Canada) / University of Exeter (UK)

  · Organizer: Nahla Abdo & Ruba Salih

  · Language: English

• PALESTINIAN DIASPORAS, POLITICAL CULTURES AND TRANS/NATIONAL BUILDING PROJECTS - 2/3: Strategies of Citizenship and Return (214)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Carleton University (Canada) and University of Exeter (UK)

  · Organizer: Nahla Abdo and Ruba Salih

  · Language: English

• PALESTINIAN DIASPORAS, POLITICAL CULTURES AND TRANS/NATIONAL BUILDING PROJECTS - 3/3: Transnational Activism and Research Agendas (231)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Carleton University (Canada) / University of Exeter (UK)

  · Organizer: Nahla Abdo & Ruba Salih

  · Language: English

• The Circulation of Culture: State Projects, Civic Initiatives and Media Representations (076)

  · Institution: Georgetown University (USA)

  · Organizer: Fida Adely

  · Language: English

• THE POLITICS OF AMNESIA AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 1/2: (235)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (Germany)

  · Organizer: Dr. Sonja Hegazy

  · Language: English

• THE POLITICS OF AMNESIA AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 2/2 (280-c)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (Germany)

  · Organizer: Dr. Sonja Hegazy

  · Language: English

• The Representation of Art and Politics in Palestine (038)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Rice University (USA)/ New York University (USA)

  · Organizer: Ala Alazzeh / Rania Jawad

  · Language: English

• TOURISM IMPACT WITHIN THE MIDDLE EAST - 1/2 (135)

  · Date: TUE, 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English, Français

• TOURISM IMPACT WITHIN THE MIDDLE EAST - 2/2 (167)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 5-7 pm

  · Language: English

• "Transnational" Yemen: networks, exchanges and mobilities (434)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Centre Français d'Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales (Yémen)

  · Organizer: Marine Poirier

  · Language: Français/Anglais

• Travel to and from North Africa (291)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Department of Arabic, Durham University and council member of BRISMES

  · Organizer: Professor Paul Starkey

  · Language: English

Poster

• 02-A Review: Folk Medicine in Iran (Case Study: North-West of Iran)

  · Institution: Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicraft Organization

  · Organizer: Farideh Madjidi Khameneh

  · Language: English