World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

Barcelona, July 19th - 24th 2010

Panel

• Al-Azhar Panel on Education and Pedagogy (289)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Faculty at the English Center, Al-Azhar University (Egypt)

  · Organizer: Sanaa Makhlouf

  · Sponsored by: The World Association for Al-Azhar Graduates

  · Language: English

• Al-Azhar Panel On Fiqh Matters (274)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Al-Azhar University and American University in Cairo (Egypt)

  · Organizer: Sanaa Makhlouf

  · Sponsored by: The World Association for Al-Azhar Graduates

  · Language: English

• ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POETRY - 1/2 (137)

  · Date: TUE, 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Approaches to Shi'i Studies (480)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Aspects of Religion and State in Islam and Judaism (154)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: International Council for Middle East Studies, Inc. (USA)

  · Organizer: Norton Mezvinsky

  · Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies, IAMES

  · Language: English

• Being a Good Muslim. Comparative Perspectives on the Contested Fields of Religious and Moral Propriety (298)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany / Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden

  · Organizer: Samuli Schielke & Tea Virtanen

  · 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

• Contemporary Issues on Pluralism and Liberalization in Morocco (409)

  · Date: WED, 21 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English / Français

• Diverse Roles for Contemporary Sufism: Developments and Perspectives (184)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University (Sweden)

  · Organizer: Leif Stenberg

  · Language: English

• Editing Manuscripts and Texts (479)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• FAULT LINES OF ISLAMISM - 1/2: Fault Lines of Islamism; Negotiating Political and Ideological Challenges (305)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of Oslo (Norway)

  · Organizer: Dr. Bjørn Olav Utvik

  · Language: English

• FAULT LINES OF ISLAMISM - 2/2: Fault Lines of Islamism; Negotiating Political and Ideological Challenges (325)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Oslo ( Norway)

  · Organizer: Dr. Bjørn Olav Utvik

  · Language: English

• Fieldwork research in Syria (348)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: ESOMI Universidad de A Coruña (Spain)

  · Organizer: Natalia Ribas-Mateos

  · Language: English

• Frontier of the Islamic Economics and Finance: New Challenges (264)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Kyoto University (Japan)

  · Organizer: Yasushi Kosugi

  · Language: English

• Glimpses on the Iranian Ismailiyya: the Dustur al-Munajjimin and its World (376)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: University of Bonn (Germany)

  · Organizer: Eva Orthmann

  · Language: English

• 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

• ISLAM AND GENDER: THE PROMISES AND THE LIMITATIONS - 2/2: Reconstructing gender beyond dichotomy of the secular or the sacred (321)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Mohammed V University-Rabat, Morocco

  · Organizer: Ilham Sadoqi

  · Language: English

• Islam and Pluralism (448)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, US Naval Academy (USA)

  · Organizer: Brannon Wheeler

  · Language: English

• Islam in Ireland: Exploring Middle Eastern Links of a Muslim Community in Europe (446)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: University College Cork (Ireland)

  · Organizer: Dr Oliver Scharbrodt

  · Language: English

• KNOWLEDGE UNDER CONTROL. RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CENSORSHIP IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES - 1/4: The pre-modern period (058)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · 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 UNDER CONTROL. RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CENSORSHIP IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES - 2/4: The pre-modern period (060)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9.00-11.00 am

  · 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/Français

• 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 UNDER CONTROL. RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CENSORSHIP IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES - 4/4: The pre-modern period (119)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Granada University (Spain)

  · Organizer: Ana Belén Soage

  · 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/Français

• Language of Art (297)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Language: English, Français

• Maraji' and Believers: Relationships of Authority in Contemporary Shi'ism (332)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Elvire Corboz

  · Language: English

• MEDIEVAL ARABIC PHILOSOPHY - 1/2 (189)

  · Date: WED 21, 9-11am

  · 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

• Microcosms and the Practices of the Local (116)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin: ZMO-BMBF (Germany)

  · Organizer: Nora Lafi

  · Language: English

• MUSLIM WORLDS - WORLD OF ISLAM - DYNAMICS OF REFORM: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL DIMENSIONS - 1/2 (241)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Germany

  · Organizer: Dr. Kai Kresse

  · Language: English

• MUSLIM WORLDS - WORLD OF ISLAM - DYNAMICS OF REFORM: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL DIMENSIONS - 2/2 (262)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Germany

  · Organizer: Dr. Kai Kresse

  · Language: English

• Mysticism and Sufi Spirituality (157)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 5-7 pm

  · Language: English

• Qur’anic Temporality (143)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: IREMAM, Université Aix-Marseille /FIIRD (France)

  · Organizer: Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau / Emmanuelle Stefanidis

  · Language: English/Français

• (Re-)Interpreting Islamic Concepts - 2/2 (374)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Language: English

• Religion et stratégies d'actions politiques : L'agir politique par les zaouia au Maghreb moderne (362)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Laboratoire DIRASET, Université de Tunis (Tunisie)

  · Organizer: Abdelhamid Hénia

  · Sponsored by: Fondation Hanns Seidel - Maghreb

  · Language: Français

• Religious and secular approaches to political inclusion in Mediterranean civil societies (405)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of St Andrews (UK)

  · Organizer: Frederic Volpi

  · Sponsored by: The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)

  · 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

• Religious Symbolism and Imagery in Medieval Persian Literature (382)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

  · Organizer: Julia Rubanovich

  · Language: English

• Rethinking Education in Light of Text and Discourses (353)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Sudan: Questions of Post-conflict, Peace and Democratic Transformation (256)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: University of Vienna (Austria)

  · Organizer: Thomas Schmidinger

  · Language: English

• SUFISM, NEO-SUFISM AND SPIRITUALITY IN TURKEY - 1/2: Social Change and Individual Endeavour (404)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Philipps Univ. Marburg, Centre of Near and Middle East Studies (Germany)

  · Organizer: Béatrice Hendrich

  · Language: English

• SUFISM, NEO-SUFISM AND SPIRITUALITY IN TURKEY - 2/2: Cultural and Social Memory (440)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Philipps Univ. Marburg, Centre of Near and Middle East Studies (Germany)

  · Organizer: Béatrice Hendrich

  · Language: English

• The Future of Political Islam (112)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am-1.30pm

  · Institution: Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy / Chr. Michelsen Institute

  · Organizer: May Jayyusi / Are Knudesn

  · Sponsored by: Muwatin, the Palerstinian Institute for the Study of Democracy / Chr. Michelsen Institute.

  · Language: English

• The Gendered Other: Muslims and Jews in the Middle East ? (335)

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

  · Institution: Truman Institute for Advancement of Peace Research

  · Organizer: Ruth Roded

  · Language: English / Français

• The Hariri Political Dynasty and the Sunni Scene in Lebanon: Practices of Transition (120)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Louvain (Belgium)

  · Organizer: Ward Vloeberghs

  · Language: English

• The system of relationships between the Maghreb and the Mashreq. The role of the ulema. Tarajim and rahalat as historical sources (393)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: University of Palermo (Italy)

  · Organizer: Maria Grazia Sciortino

  · Language: English / Français

• 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

• Ulama' in the later middle ages: Socio-economic and intellectual aspects (312)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Prof. Dpt. of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa (Israel)

  · Organizer: Amalia Levanoni

  · Language: English

Roundtable

• Al-Azhar Contributions to Contemporary Pedagogy of Islam (141)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Al-Azhar University and American University in Cairo

  · Organizer: Sanaa Makhlouf

  · Sponsored by: The World Association for Al-Azhar Graduates

  · Language: in English

Poster

• 23-Muslim Worlds – World of Islam?

  · Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient

  · Organizer: Sonja Hegasy

  · Language: English