MICHIGAN

• Host Department: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS)
• Date: 04/09/2015
• Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
• Location: Rackham Assembly Hall (4th Floor), 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
• Description:The event is open to the public, attendance registration is requested. « Online Registration »

  The CMENAS Graduate Student Symposium is a forum for graduate students across the University of Michigan and beyond to present original research concerning the modern Middle East and North Africa. Papers selected for presentation will inform one another and contribute to their respective academic fields.

  8:30 am – Registration and Opening Reception (Breakfast, coffee, and tea will be  provided in the rear alcove of the Assembly Hall.)

  9:10 am – Introduction by Jameel Brenneman, Symposium Organizing Committee, CMENAS

  9:15 am – Opening Remarks by Juan R. I. Cole, Professor, History; Director, CMENAS

  9:30 am – Panel I: Identity and Form
  Discussant: Christiane Gruber, Associate Professor, History of Art

  Woman as State: Nasser Palangi’s Nationalist Imagery
  Crystal Labrosse

  Old Walls and New Nations: The “Syria-Lebanon” Room at the University of Pittsburgh
  Courtney Lesoon

  Iconographic Battle: Visual Responses to the Rab’a Massacre
  Nama Khalil

  11:00 am – Break

  11:15 am – Panel II: Turkey Revisited
  Discussant: Gottfried Hagen, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies

  The Ottoman Coffeehouse: Gendered Routes to Power
  Britton Daley

  Problematizing the “Rescue Myth”: How Turkey Failed to Protect its Jewish Citizens Abroad During WWII
  Sakire Dogan

  Female Homoerotic Intimacy and the Public Space in Erden Kiral’s Vicdan
  Duygu Ula

  12:45 pm – Break for Lunch

  2:00 pm – Panel III: Converging Realities
  Discussant: TBD

  The “Traditional” and “Modern” Religious Figures in mid-20th Century Syria: Was There Cooperation or a Clash?
  Sarah Azmeh

  Darwinism’s Evolution in the East: a Comparison between Darwinism among the Arabs and its Appearance among the Chinese
  Yikuan Chen

  Globalization and the Effects of Convergent Organizations on Saudi and Emirati Tertiary Education
  Ann Desiderio

  3:30 pm – Break

  3:45 pm – Panel IV: Transition and Power
  Discussant: TBD

  Fragmentation and Emergence of Authoritarian Regimes in Middle Eastern Politics: Iran Case Study
  Morteza Nazari,

  Forgotten Opposition and Strategic Success in Algeria’s First Experiments with Democracy
  Juliet Happy

  Labor and the State: The Battle for Trade Union Freedoms in Egypt’s Transitional Period
  Nehal Amer

  5:15 pm – Closing Remarks by Jameel Brenneman, Symposium Organizing Committee, CMENAS

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  Sponsors: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; Rackham Graduate School and Dean’s Strategic Initiative; Islamic Studies Program; African Studies Center; International Institute; International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Department of History; Department of Art History; Department of Near Eastern Studies

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