World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

Barcelona, July 19th - 24th 2010

Panel

• A Social Sciences Approach to Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: Stakes and Limits (265)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Université de Lyon ENS Lettres et Sciences Humaines (France)

  · Organizer: Frédéric Abecassis

  · Language: English/Français

• Analysis of Muslim Empires - 2/2: The Mameluk Era (398)

  · Date: THU, 22 / 5:00 - 7:00 pm

  · Language: English

• ANALYSIS OF MUSLIM EMPIRES I: Early Califate (361)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Between Worlds: Identity and Thought in the Late Ottoman Empire (324)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Ohio State University (USA)

  · Organizer: Carter Findley

  · Language: English

• Beyond Diasporic and Hegemonic Identity (369)

  · Date: THU, 22 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English / Français

• Beyond Orientalism: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840~1922) and His Networks (229)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Chiba (Japan)

  · Organizer: Yoshiko Kurita

  · Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES)

  · Language: English

• Can Sudan Survive? : Examining the Historical Roots of the ''New Sudan'' (346)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Chiba / IAMES (Japan)

  · Organizer: Yoshiko Kurita

  · Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES)

  · Language: English

• Challenges of field research in the Middle East (487)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English, Français

• Challenging Retrenchment: The United States, Great Britain and the Middle East, 1970 - 1985 (334)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Leeds (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Professor Clive Jones

  · Language: English

• Christians in the Muslim World (026)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Circulation of Knowledge and technology in the Mediterranean countries (319)

  · Date: THU, 22 / 11.30 am - 1.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Barcelona (Spain)

  · Organizer: Angel Calvo

  · Language: English, Français

• Circulation of Knowledge and Technology in the Mediterranean Countries (319)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Centre of Studies 'Antoni de Capmany', University of Barcelona (Spain)

  · Organizer: Ángel Calvo

  · Language: English / Français

• Cold War and Colonial Legacies: The 50s and 60s (373)

  · Date: THU, 22 / 5-7 pm

  · Language: English / Français

• Contemporary Fieldwork in the Middle East: Practices, Possibilities and Politics (300)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University College Cork, UCC (Ireland)

  · Organizer: Vivian Ibrahim

  · Language: English

• Crises et Mouvements Socio-politiques dans le Monde Arabo-islamique Médiéval (261)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Université de Tunis (Tunisie)

  · Organizer: Radhi Daghfous

  · Language: Français

• Cyprus through History (131)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Dialogues des riverains en Méditerranée occidentale. (048)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: UNED, Espagne

  · Organizer: Victor Morales Lezcano

  · Language: Français

• Domains of Intimacy: Gendered Constructions of Law, the Body and Sexuality in the Middle East (219)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Villanova University (USA)

  · Organizer: Dr. Hibba Abugideiri

  · Language: English

• Editing Manuscripts and Texts (479)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Emotional Communities in the Middle East and North Africa: Historical and Ethnographic Approaches (246)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Harvard University (USA)

  · Organizer: Max Weiss

  · Language: English

• European States Looking towards the South (477)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English / Français

• Evolution of the Societal and Educational Roles of Universities in GCC States (240)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: UAE University

  · Organizer: Ann Scholl

  · Language: English

• Forming Borders and States in Central Asia and Khorasan (207)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Tufts University (USA)

  · Organizer: Beatrice F. Manz

  · Language: English

• Great Powers in the Middle East: Until the Begining of the 20th Century (020)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English / Français

• HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: STATE OF THE ART AND PERSPECTIVES - 1/2: Looking at the medical past from a contemporary viewpoint (436)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: CReCSS, Université Paul Cézanne d'Aix-Marseille (France)

  · Organizer: Claire Beaudevin

  · Language: English/Français

• HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: STATE OF THE ART AND PERSPECTIVES - 2/2: The integration of biomedicine in Islamic contexts (462)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: CReCSS, Université Paul Cézanne d'Aix-Marseille (France)

  · Organizer: Claire Beaudevin

  · Language: English / Français

• Historical Approaches of Music (413)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 9:00 - 11:00 am

  · Language: English, Français

• Individuals and Social Change in the Muslim World (late19th Century-Early 20th Century) (263)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: University of Arizona (USA)

  · Organizer: Odile Moreau

  · Language: English

• Intellectual and Politcal View on the Palestinian Issue (011)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · 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

• Iran-Iraq War: Thirty Years Later (227)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Zayed University (UAE)

  · Organizer: Federico Vélez

  · Language: English

• IRANIAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT -I- Debates around Identity in Iran (122)

  · Date: TUE, 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Jewish Communities across the Middle East (418)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9-11 am

  · Language: English

• KNOWLEDGE UNDER CONTROL. RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CENSORSHIP IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES - 3/4: The pre-modern and modern periods (098)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am-1.30pm

  · Institution: CSIC - Madrid (Spain)

  · Organizer: Maribel Fierro

  · Sponsored by: European Research Council. Advanced Research Grant, KOHEPOCU F03049 / Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y de Oriente Próximo (ILC) - CSIC / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

  · Language: English

• Knowledge, Modernity and the State in the Nile Valley: Egypt and Sudan in the Imperial Era, 1882-1956 (396)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: IREMAM - Université de Provence (France)

  · Organizer: Iris Seri-Hersch

  · Language: English

• L'URBANISME ET L'ARCHITECTURE EN SITUATION COLONIALE CONSIDERES AU MIROIR DU PROCESSUS DE DEVELOPPEMENT DU TERRITOIRE - 1/2: Les formes territoriales, urbaines et architecturales en Afrique du Nord aux XIX-XXIe siècles. Permanences ou ruptures ? LIBYA (128)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Vienna University of Technology /IRMC Tunis

  · Organizer: Vittoria Capresi / Charlotte Jelidi

  · Language: English / Français

• L'URBANISME ET L'ARCHITECTURE EN SITUATION COLONIALE CONSIDERES AU MIROIR DU PROCESSUS DE DEVELOPPEMENT DU TERRITOIRE - 2/2: Le formes territoriales, urbaines et architecturales en Afrique du Nord aux XIX-XXIe siècles. Permanences ou ruptures - Maghreb (152)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: Vienna University of Technology /IRMC Tunis

  · Organizer: Vittoria Capresi / Charlotte Jelidi

  · Language: English / Français

• La Méditerranée arabe et ses frontières dans le contexte de la mondialisation (336)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: ESOMI Universidad A. Coruña (Spain)

  · Organizer: Natalia Ribas-Mateos

  · Language: English / Français

• Law in Action in the Colonial Middle East: A Site of Struggle and Negotiation between Collaboration and Resistance (1882-1948) (293)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Language: English

• Le Sahara Atlantique-Fragments d'Histoire d'un Espace de Contacts (489)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30 pm- 4.30 pm

  · Institution: Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches historiques, Université de Nouakchott (Mauritanie)

  · Organizer: Elemine Ould Mohamed Baba

  · Language: Français

• Mass Organisations in the Middle East (216)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Esther Meininghaus

  · Language: English

• MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURAL OTHERNESS - 1/2 (175)

  · Date: WED 21, 9-11am

  · Language: English

• MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURAL OTHERNESS - 2/2 (218)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Language: English

• MEDIEVAL ARABIC PHILOSOPHY - 2/2 (459-b)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am - 1.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Medieval Science and Magic Squares (156)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 5:00 - 7:00 pm

  · Language: English

• MEETING PLACE OF TWO OCEANS (MAJMA'AL-BA'RAYN): MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF MIDDLE EAST - 1/5: Diversity and Uniformity in the Muslim West (004)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Sophia University (Japan)

  · Organizer: Masatoshi Kisachi

  · Language: English

• MEETING PLACE OF TWO OCEANS (MAJMA'AL-BA'RAYN): MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF MIDDLE EAST - 4/5: Sufis and Saints Facing the Government and the Public - II (101)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am -1.30 pm

  · Institution: Sophia University (Japan)

  · Organizer: Masayuki Akahori

  · Language: English

• Mouvements Messianiques dans l'Islam Contemporain/Messianic Movements in Contemporary Islam (338)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Sciences Po (France)

  · Organizer: Jean-Pierre Filiu

  · Language: English/ Français

• Neither Pashas nor Sultans: Alternative leadership in the late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey (258)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK)

  · Organizer: Ioannis Moutsis & Stefano Taglia

  · Language: English

• Ottoman Legacies and Modern Identities (239)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Toronto (Canada)

  · Organizer: James A. Reilly

  · Language: English

• Ottoman Reform Provincialized: 19th-Century Case Studies (377)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Chiba University (Japan)

  · Organizer: Jun Akiba

  · Language: English

• Ottomanism and notions of the Empire on the verge of its collapse (356)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Bogazici University - Istanbul (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Vangelis Kechriotis

  · Language: Ottomanism and notions of the Empire on the verge of its collapse

• Palestinian Women in Palestine and Israel (414)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 9 - 11 am

  · Language: English

• Practical, Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of Field Research in the Middle East (030)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

  · Organizer: Philipp Amour

  · Language: English

• RELIGIOUS HERMENEUTICS OF THE KORAN AND RELATED TEXTS- 1/3 (085)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9-11 am

  · Language: English

• RELIGIOUS HERMENEUTICS OF THE KORAN AND RELATED TEXTS- 2/3 (090)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 11.30 am - 1.30 pm

  · Language: English

• RELIGIOUS HERMENEUTICS OF THE KORAN AND RELATED TEXTS- III (139)

  · Date: TUE, 20 - 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Remembering the Ottomans: New Perspectives (206)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: McMaster University (Canada)

  · Organizer: Virginia H. Aksan

  · Language: English

• Roman Empire (082)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 9:00 - 11:00 am

  · Language: English / Français

• Sabbataianism Observed (395)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Furman University (USA)

  · Organizer: Cengiz Sisman

  · Language: English

• Studying Kurdistan (188)

  · Date: WED, 21 / 9 - 11 am

  · Language: English

• The 1930s: A Pivotal Moment for Lebanese Intellectual, National, and Legal History (320)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Boston University (USA)

  · Organizer: Betty Anderson

  · Language: English

• The Age of Alamut: New Developments in the Study of Ismaili History in the Alamut Period (210)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: The Institute of Ismaili Studies (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Jalal Badakhchani

  · Language: English

• THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE GLOBAL COLD WAR - 1/2: A Political-economy of State-building in the Middle East: between Domestic and International Influences (242)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Padua / University of Florence (Italy)

  · Organizer: Massimiliano Trentin & Matteo Gerlini

  · Language: English

• THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE GLOBAL COLD WAR - 2/2: Beyond Superpower Rivalry: the Agency of the Middle East within the International Context (269)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: University of Padua / University of Florence (Italy)

  · Organizer: Massimiliano Trentin & Matteo Gerlini

  · Language: English

• THE MONGOLS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST - 1/3: Mongol kingship and politics in the Middle East (411)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Bruno De Nicola and Dr. Siddharth Saxena

  · Language: English

• THE MONGOLS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST - 2/3: Middle Eastern Culture and Art under Mongol Rule (439)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Bruno De Nicola and Dr. Siddharth Saxena

  · Language: English

• THE MONGOLS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST - 3/3: The Mongols and their Neighbours (474)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Bruno De Nicola and Dr. Siddharth Saxena

  · Language: English

• The New Tax Regime in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire: New Practices and Conflicts over the Assessment and Collection of Urban and Rural Taxes (182)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Bogazici University of Istanbul (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Yucel Terzibasoglu

  · 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

• THE WAYS OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (10TH-15TH CENTURIES) - 1/4: Religion and Society in the Western Mediterranean (900-1300) (302)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: ICREA and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  · Organizer: Alexander Fidora and Fèlix Retamero

  · Language: English/Français

• THE WAYS OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (10TH-15TH CENTURIES) - 2/4: Religion and Society in the Western Mediterranean (1300-1500) (317)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: ICREA and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  · Organizer: Alexander Fidora and Fèlix Retamero

  · Language: English/Français

• THE WAYS OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (10TH-15TH CENTURIES) - 3/4: Iberian Sources for the Study of Late Medieval Western Islam. Arabo-Islamic Sources (349)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: IMF-CSIC (Barcelona)

  · Organizer: Roser Salicrú i Lluch

  · Language: English/Français

• THE WAYS OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (10TH-15TH CENTURIES) - 4/4: Iberian Sources for the Study of Late Medieval Western Islam. Christian Sources (384)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: IMF-CSIC (Barcelona)

  · Organizer: Roser Salicrú i Lluch

  · Language: English/Français

• 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

• Ulama and the representation of religion in Arab TV serials (367)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

  · Organizer: Donatella Della Ratta

  · Language: English

• VERS UNE HISTORIOGRAPHIE POST-MODERNISTE DU MAGHREB? -1/2: Quelques usages de l'archive coloniale pour l'histoire de l'Afrique du Nord (428)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Centre d'histoire sociale de l'Islam méditerranéen - EHESS (France)

  · Organizer: Alain Messaoudi

  · Language: English/Français

• VERS UNE HISTORIOGRAPHIE POST-MODERNISTE DU MAGHREB? -2/2: Discuter le global à partir du local. L'expérience coloniale et postcoloniale en Afrique du Nord (438)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Sesamo/Université de Catane (Italy)

  · Organizer: Daniela Melfa

  · Language: English/Français

Poster

• 04-Andalusi Islamic textiles

  · Institution: University of Oxford

  · Organizer: Miriam Ali de Unzaga

  · Language: English

• 23-Muslim Worlds – World of Islam?

  · Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient

  · Organizer: Sonja Hegasy

  · Language: English