World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

Barcelona, July 19th - 24th 2010

Panel

• ALGERIA: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN A TRANSITIONAL POST-CONFLICT CONTEXT - 1/2: Political subpanel (015)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

  · Organizer: Rafael Bustos

  · Language: English, Français

• ALGERIA: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN A TRANSITIONAL POST-CONFLICT CONTEXT - 2/2: sub-economic panel (047)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: GATE and Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)

  · Organizer: Aurèlia Mañé

  · Language: English, Français

• Another Debate on Civil Society - Challenges of Civil Societal Politics (194)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of Tuebingen (Germany)

  · Organizer: Huercan Asli Aksoy, Nadine Kreitmeyr

  · Language: English

• Approaches to Shi'i Studies (480)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Border policies and human movement in the Euro Mediterranean area (007)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: European Institute of the Mediterranean, Interdisciplinary Research Group in Immigration, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain)

  · Organizer: Xavier Aragall and Ricard Zapata-Barrero

  · 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

• China-Middle East Relations: emerging cross-regional nexus? (114)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Durham University (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Dr Yukiko Miyagi

  · Language: English

• Civil Society Initiatives in Turkey (406)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9-11 am

  · Language: English

• Clientelism, informal institutions, and local democracy in the MENA region (162)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

  · Organizer: Sylvia I. Bergh

  · Language: English

• Climate, Energy, and Food Security in the 21st Century: Middle East Perspectives (123)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: The University of Sydney (Australia)

  · Organizer: Leanne Piggott

  · Language: English

• Comparative Perspectives on Citizenship (275)

  · Date: WED 21, 5-7 pm

  · Language: English

• Conflict Analysis and Resolution: Case Studies (481)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 2:30 - 4:30 pm

  · Language: English

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

  · Date: WED, 21 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English / Français

• Contemporary Social Policy in Egypt: Poverty, Welfare, Employment and Education (310)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

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

  · Organizer: Hania Sobhy

  · Language: English

• Crisis in National Identity and Secularism in Turkey (199)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Middle East Studies, METU (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Recep Boztemur

  · Language: English

• Diaspora Politics: Circassians in Turkey (378)

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Yildiz Technical University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Setenay Nil Dogan

  · Language: English

• EGYPTIAN MIGRATIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY - 1/2: (307)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: INALCO (France)

  · Organizer: Delphine Pagès-El Karoui

  · Language: English / Français

• EGYPTIAN MIGRATIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY - 2/2 (316)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: INALCO (France)

  · Organizer: Delphine Pagès-El Karoui

  · Language: English / Français

• Ending the Iraqi State (170)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of Calgary, Canada

  · Organizer: Tareq Y. Ismael

  · Sponsored by: International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies , IACIS

  · Language: English

• Energy Issues in the MENA Region (444)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Language: English / Français

• EU security policy-making in the Mediterranean: Consequences in value and ethical terms (089)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am-1.30pm

  · Institution: Bilkent University (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Pinar Bilgin

  · Language: English

• Euro-Mediterranean Intercultural Trends 2010 (177)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (Egypt)

  · Organizer: Eleonora Insalaco

  · Language: English / Français

• European States Looking towards the South (477)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English / Français

• Faces of Conservatism in Turkey (103)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am-1.30pm

  · Institution: Department of Political Science and Public Adm., Middle East Technical Univeristy, Ankara (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Asl' Ç'rakman

  · 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

• Feminine Strategies in Political Change (394)

  · Date: THU, 22 / 5-7 pm

  · Language: English

• Foreign Policies of Middle Eastern States (441)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

  · Language: English, Français

• Globalization, Capitalism and Welfare in Turkey (237)

  · Date: WED, 21 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Great Powers and the Middle East (032)

  · Date: MON 19, 5-7 pm

  · 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

• HIDDEN GEOGRAPHIES: INFORMAL POWERS IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST - 1/4: Civil society in 'uncivil' contexts: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches (017)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Centre for Middle East and North African Studies (Australia)

  · Organizer: Gennaro Gervasio

  · Language: English

• HIDDEN GEOGRAPHIES: INFORMAL POWERS IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST - 2/4: Redistributing power relations through informal alliances (057)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Centre for Middle East and North African Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)

  · Organizer: Gennaro Gervasio

  · Language: English

• HIDDEN GEOGRAPHIES: INFORMAL POWERS IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST - 4/4: Resistance, Cooptation, Centralisation: The non-Arab Middle East (100)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am-1.30pm

  · Institution: Centre for Middle East and North African Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)

  · Organizer: Gennaro Gervasio

  · Language: English

• Identity, Representation and Mobilization (433)

  · Date: FRI 23, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Society of Arab & Islamic Studies (UK)

  · Organizer: Fernando Carvajal

  · Language: English

• Immigrant Associations: The Voice of a Community (429)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9-11 am

  · Language: English

• Institutional Politics and Political Engagement under Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (322)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: European University Institute, EUI (Italy)

  · Organizer: Kevin Koehler

  · Language: English

• Institutions: tools for rulers, or to change the rules of the game? Transformation of the relationship between ruling elites and the opposition through institutions (484)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan)

  · Organizer: Keiko Sakai

  · Language: English

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

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Into the Second Decade: Morocco under King Muhammad VI (482)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Nebraska-Omaha (USA)

  · Organizer: Moshe Gershovich

  · Language: English

• Iran and Foreign Policies (092)

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

  · 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 -II- Social and Political Change in Iran (166)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5-7 pm

  · Language: English

• Iraq under Occupation (209)

  · Date: WED, 21 / 11.30 am -1.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Islam and Integration in Europe: The example of Austria (473)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Vienna (Austria)

  · Organizer: Mag. Thomas Schmidinger

  · Language: English

• Islam in Malaysian Politics: Issues and challenges (423)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia (Malaysia)

  · Organizer: Zaid Ahmad

  · Language: English

• Islamism as Nationalism: The Nationalist Roots of Modern Islamic Thought and Islamic Movements in the Arab World (172)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Dalhousie University (Canada ) and Philipps University Marburg (Germany)

  · Organizer: Amal Ghazal and Rachid Ouaissa

  · Language: English/Français

• Jordanian politics and tribalism (488)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Lebanon: Leadership, Identity and Communal Bonds (074)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 9-11 am

  · Language: English / Français

• LES OPPOSITIONS MAGHREBINES DANS LE CHAMP AUTORITAIRE ET DANS L'IMMIGRATION - 1/2: S'opposer au Maghreb (329)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: IESA/CSIC , Cordoue (Espagne)

  · Organizer: Thierry Desrues

  · Sponsored by: IESA/CSIC and IREMAM/CNRS

  · Language: English/Français

• LES OPPOSITIONS MAGHREBINES DANS LE CHAMP AUTORITAIRE ET DANS L'IMMIGRATION - 2/2 : Les oppositions maghrébines dans l'immigration et en diaspora (366)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados - IESA / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - CSIC (Espagne)

  · Organizer: Thierry Desrues

  · Sponsored by: IESA/CSIC y GRESAM/UCLM

  · Language: Français

• Les trois Méditerranées: centralité des cultures et rôle de l'Europe dans les processus de paix (463)

  · Date: FRI 23, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Association Peripli - Cultures et Sociétés Euroméditerranéennes / Université de Naples L'Orientale (Italy)

  · Organizer: Maria Donzelli

  · Language: English/Français

• Managing Multiculturalism (486)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• 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

• MEETING PLACE OF TWO OCEANS (MAJMA'AL-BA'RAYN): MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF MIDDLE EAST - 2/5: Multiple Identity of the Arab People based on the Results of Recent Poll Survey (031)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Hitotsubashi University (Japan)

  · Organizer: Hiroshi Kato

  · Language: English

• MEETING PLACE OF TWO OCEANS (MAJMA'AL-BA'RAYN): MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF MIDDLE EAST - 3/5: Sufis and Saints Facing the Government and the Public - I (065)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Sophia University (Japan)

  · Organizer: Masayuki Akahori

  · Language: English

• MIDDLE CLASS POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS - 1/2: Middle Class Politics and the Politics of the Middle Class: A Perspective from Contemporary Egypt (352)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: American University in Cairo (Egypt)

  · Organizer: Reem Saad

  · Language: English

• MIDDLE EAST POLITICS THRU 'POST-DEMOCRATIZATION' LENSES - 1/2: Post-Democratization Theoretical Approaches (001)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of St. Andrews (UK)

  · Organizer: Raymond Hinnebusch

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

  · Language: English

• MIDDLE EAST POLITICS THRU 'POST-DEMOCRATIZATION' LENSES - 2/2: Post-democratization in Practice: Case studies (053)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: University of St. Andrews (UK)

  · Organizer: Raymond Hinnebusch

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

  · Language: English

• MINORITIES AND IDENTITY IN ISRAEL - 1/2 (452)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 11.30 am - 1.30 pm

  · Language: English

• MINORITIES AND IDENTITY IN ISRAEL - 2/2 (471)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · 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

• Nationalism, the Politics of Recognition and Democratization in Turkey (159)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: Koc University (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Fuat Keyman

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

  · Language: English

• (No) Regional Powers in the Middle East (257)

  · Date: WED 21, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: GIGA, Institute of Middle East Sudies, Hamburg (Germany)

  · Organizer: Prof. Dr. Henner Fürtig

  · Language: English

• 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

• PALESTINIAN POLITICAL SCENE - 1/2: Post the Peace Process (064)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9-11 am

  · Language: English

• PALESTINIAN POLITICAL SCENE - 2/2: Electoral Strategies, the Case of Hamas (096)

  · Date: TUE, 11.30 am - 1.30 pm

  · Language: English

• Palestinians in Jordan and Lebanon (165)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 5-7 pm

  · Language: English & Français

• PEACE IN TURKEY? - 1/4: Identity Politics and the State (071)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Manchester University (UK)

  · Organizer: Tim Jacoby

  · Language: English

• PEACE IN TURKEY? - 2/4: Resistance, Articulation and the Non-Governmental Sector (097)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am-1.30pm

  · Institution: Manchester University (UK)

  · Organizer: Tim Jacoby

  · Language: English

• PEACE IN TURKEY? - 3/4: The PKK, the AKP and New Approaches towards the Kurdish Issue (133)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Manchester University (UK)

  · Organizer: Tim Jacoby

  · Language: English

• PEACE IN TURKEY? - 4/4: Current Prospects and Future Scenarios (146)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: Manchester University (UK)

  · Organizer: Tim Jacoby

  · Language: English

• Peripheries become Centers: New Media Borderlands in the Middle East (173)

  · Date: WED 21, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Catholic University of America (USA)

  · Organizer: Jon W. Anderson

  · Language: English

• Political and Onthological Figuration of the East and the West (212)

  · Language: English

• Politics of Election in the Magreb Region (198)

  · Date: WED, 21 / 11.30 am -1.30 pm

  · Institution: Universidad de Jaén / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

  · Organizer: Raquel Ojeda García & Ferran Izquierdo Brichs

  · Sponsored by: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

  · Language: English/ Français

• Promoting research on the Middle East: cornerstone of the Alliance of Civilizations (088)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am-1.30pm

  · Organizer: European Institute of the Mediterranean, IEMed (Spain)

  · Language: English

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

  · Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Language: English

• Reconsidering Authoritarianism in the Arab World: Dissent, Repression, and Co-optation (326)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Kent State University (USA)

  · Organizer: Joshua Stacher

  · Language: English

• Region-building Dynamics in the Euro-Mediterranean Space (294)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (Spain)

  · Organizer: Esther Barbé

  · Language: English

• Regionalism: Back on the Agenda? (168)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 5-7 pm

  · Language: English

• 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

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

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• RETHINKING THE MEDITERRANEAN: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INTERACTION BETWEEN ‘US’ AND ‘THEM’ - 1/3: Theoretical Aspects (226)

  · Date: WED, 21 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Institution: Institute for International Politics, Institute for International Politics, Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg

  · Organizer: Annette Jünemann and Jakob Horst

  · Language: English

• RETHINKING THE MEDITERRANEAN: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INTERACTION BETWEEN ‘US’ AND ‘THEM’ - 2/3: Empirical Case Studies (280-b)

  · Date: WED, 21 / 5 -7 pm

  · Institution: Institute for International Politics, Institute for International Politics, Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg

  · Organizer: Annette Jünemann and Jakob Horst

  · Language: English

• RETHINKING THE MEDITERRANEAN: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INTERACTION BETWEEN ‘US’ AND ‘THEM’ - 3/3: Empirical Case Studies (295)

  · Date: THU, 22 / 9 -11 am

  · Institution: Institute for International Politics, Institute for International Politics, Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg

  · Organizer: Annette Jünemann and Jakob Horst

  · Language: English

• Rethinking Women Social Rights and Identity 222

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30-1.30am

  · Language: English

• School and Education: Case Studies (419)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9-11 am

  · Language: English

• Security and the Politics of National Culture in Contemporary Iraq (238)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Michigan (USA)

  · Organizer: Juan Cole

  · Sponsored by: International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS)

  · Language: English

• Social and Political Participation of Women (343)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• State-Society Relations in Contemporary Turkey (081)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Sabanci University (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Ayse Ezgi Gurcan

  · Language: English

• Strategic Nonviolent Action in the Middle East (427)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of San Francisco (USA)

  · Organizer: Stephen Zunes

  · Language: English

• Structures of Peace and Violence in the Muslim World (075)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9-11 am

  · 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

• The Foreign Policies of the Gulf States: Regional Dynamics in the 21st Century (403)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of Exeter (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Dr. Khalid Almezaini

  · Language: English

• The Future of Gulf Governance: Security, Climate, Energy (283)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

  · 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 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 Liminality of Gender Issues relating to Social Stability and Post-Oil Economies in the Gulf States (236)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) / University of Alabama, Huntsville (USA)

  · Organizer: Annemarie Profanter / Stephanie Ryan Cate

  · 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 Multi-Level Facet of Middle Eastern Security (203)

  · Date: WED 21, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Jordan

  · Organizer: Dr. Martin Beck

  · Language: English

• The Rise of Local Politics in Turkey (106)

  · Date: TUE 20, 11.30 am-1.30pm

  · Institution: Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Nihal Incioglu

  · Language: English

• The Role of Civil Society in the Middle East (392)

  · Date: THU, 22 / 5-7 pm

  · Language: English

• The State and the Market in the Middle East and North Africa (155)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: University of Tübingen (Germany)

  · Organizer: Torsten Matzke

  · Language: English

• The Structural Context of Democracy in Turkey (136)

  · Date: TUE, 20 / 2.30 - 4.30 pm

  · Language: English

• THE TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT OF ETHNIC CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 1/2: The territorial management of ethnic conflict in the Middle East (309)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: University of Torino, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)

  · Organizer: Marco Allegra, Anna Casaglia & Paolo Napolitano

  · Language: English

• THE TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT OF ETHNIC CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 2/2: The territorial management of ethnic conflict in the Middle East (333)

  · Date: THU 22, 11.30 am-1.30 pm

  · Institution: University of Torino, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)

  · Organizer: Marco Allegra, Anna Casaglia & Paolo Napolitano

  · Language: English

• Thinking about Violence: History, Poetry, Ethics (115)

  · Date: TUE 20, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Department of Rhetoric, University of California Berkeley, USA

  · Organizer: Samera Esmeir

  · Language: English

• Transformation from Politics based on Communal Identities to Cross-communal National Parties through the Electoral System: The cases of Iraq and Lebanon (078)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan)

  · Organizer: Keiko SAKAI

  · Language: English

• Turkey and Middle East in World Politics (296)

  · Date: THU 22, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Istanbul Sehir University (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Muzaffer Senel

  · Language: English

• Turkey's Transformation under the Justice and Development Party: Elites, Minority Politics and Foreign Policy (037)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Ankara University (Turkey)

  · Organizer: Ilhan Uzgel

  · Language: English

• TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY 1/2 - Continuity and Change in Turkey's External Relations (410)

  · Date: FRI 23, 9-11 am

  · Language: English

• TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY 2/2 - Turkish Foreign Policy and the Middle East (437)

  · Date: FRI, 23 / 11.30 am - 1.30 pm

  · Language: English

• URBAN SPACES OF IDENTITY VERSUS SPACES OF URBAN IDENTITY IN THE ARAB WORLD - 1/2: Urban Spaces of Identity versus Spaces of Urban Identity in the Arab World (009)

  · Date: MON 19, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: CERAW - Institute of Geography, University of Mainz

  · Organizer: Ala Al-Hamarneh and Nadine Scharfenort

  · Language: English

• URBAN SPACES OF IDENTITY VERSUS SPACES OF URBAN IDENTITY IN THE ARAB WORLD - 2/2: Urban Spaces of Identity versus Spaces of Urban Identity in the Arab World (040)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: CERAW - Institute of Geography, University of Mainz

  · Organizer: Ala Al-Hamarneh and Nadine Scharfenort

  · Language: English

• Values and Women Rights in the Muslim Countries (033)

  · Date: MON 19, 5-7 pm

  · Language: English

• Violence and counter-violence in the contemporary Arabo-Persian Gulf (364)

  · Date: THU 22, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: Institut de Recherches et d''Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (France)

  · Organizer: Laurent Bonnefoy

  · Language: English

• West Asian Dynamics: States, Political Movements and Imperial Projects (147)

  · Date: TUE 20, 5.00-7.00pm

  · Institution: University of Hawaii, Manoa (Hawaii)

  · Organizer: Ibrahim G. Aoudé

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

  · Language: English

• What are the responsibilities of academics as public intellectuals? (035)

  · Date: MON 19, 5.00-7.00 pm

  · Institution: Birzeit University (Palestine)

  · Organizer: Samia Batmeh

  · Language: English

Roundtable

• Civility and Secularity in the Mediterranean Post-colony (254)

  · Date: WED 21, 2.30-4.30 pm

  · Institution: University of St Andrews (United Kingdom)

  · Organizer: Frederic Volpi

  · Language: English

• Permissible Criticism: Law in the Service of Silencing Critical Voices (225)

  · Date: WED 21, 11:30-1:30 pm

  · Institution: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES) & International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS)

  · Organizer: Tareq Ismael

  · Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES) & International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS)

  · Language: English

• The Egyptian Political Scene: Coordinated Efforts to Promote Change (087)

  · Date: TUE 20, 9.00-11.00 am

  · Institution: Coalition of Egyptian Organizations (Egypt & USA)

  · Organizer: Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim

  · Language: English

Poster

• 26-Survey of Experts and Actors on the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Assessments and Forecasts

  · Institution: European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed)

  · Organizer: Jordi Padilla & Xavier Aragall

  · Language: English

• 29-'TEIM' Election Watch of MENA and Muslim Countries: An Online Project of Electoral Academic Observation

  · Institution: Autonomous University of Madrid & Director of TEIM Election Watch

  · Organizer: Rafael Bustos & Luciano Zaccara

  · Language: English