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SUMMARY:Evolving Perspectives on the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION:MICHIGAN\n\n	Host Department: Center for Middle Eastern and Nor
 th African Studies (CMENAS)\n	Date: 04/09/2015\n	Time: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM\n
 	Location: Rackham Assembly Hall (4th Floor)\, 915 E. Washington St.\, Ann
  Arbor\, MI 48109-1070\n	Description:The event is open to the public\, att
 endance registration is requested. « Online Registration »\n\nThe CMENA
 S Graduate Student Symposium is a forum for graduate students across the U
 niversity of Michigan and beyond to present original research concerning t
 he modern Middle East and North Africa. Papers selected for presentation w
 ill inform one another and contribute to their respective academic fields.
 \n\n8:30 am – Registration and Opening Reception (Breakfast\, coffee\, a
 nd tea will be  provided in the rear alcove of the Assembly Hall.)\n\n9:1
 0 am – Introduction by Jameel Brenneman\, Symposium Organizing Committe
 e\, CMENAS\n\n9:15 am – Opening Remarks by Juan R. I. Cole\, Professor
 \, History\; Director\, CMENAS\n\n9:30 am – Panel I: Identity and Form\
 nDiscussant: Christiane Gruber\, Associate Professor\, History of Art\n\n
 Woman as State: Nasser Palangi’s Nationalist Imagery\nCrystal Labrosse\n
 \nOld Walls and New Nations: The “Syria-Lebanon” Room at the Universit
 y of Pittsburgh\nCourtney Lesoon\n\nIconographic Battle: Visual Responses 
 to the Rab’a Massacre\nNama Khalil\n\n11:00 am – Break\n\n11:15 am –
  Panel II: Turkey Revisited\nDiscussant: Gottfried Hagen\, Associate Pro
 fessor\, Near Eastern Studies\n\nThe Ottoman Coffeehouse: Gendered Routes 
 to Power\nBritton Daley\n\nProblematizing the “Rescue Myth”: How Turke
 y Failed to Protect its Jewish Citizens Abroad During WWII\nSakire Dogan\n
 \nFemale Homoerotic Intimacy and the Public Space in Erden Kiral’s Vicda
 n\nDuygu Ula\n\n12:45 pm – Break for Lunch\n\n2:00 pm – Panel III: Co
 nverging Realities\nDiscussant: TBD\n\nThe “Traditional” and “Modern
 ” Religious Figures in mid-20th Century Syria: Was There Cooperation or 
 a Clash?\nSarah Azmeh\n\nDarwinism’s Evolution in the East: a Comparison
  between Darwinism among the Arabs and its Appearance among the Chinese\nY
 ikuan Chen\n\nGlobalization and the Effects of Convergent Organizations on
  Saudi and Emirati Tertiary Education\nAnn Desiderio\n\n3:30 pm – Break\
 n\n3:45 pm – Panel IV: Transition and Power\nDiscussant: TBD\n\nFragmen
 tation and Emergence of Authoritarian Regimes in Middle Eastern Politics: 
 Iran Case Study\nMorteza Nazari\,\n\nForgotten Opposition and Strategic Su
 ccess in Algeria’s First Experiments with Democracy\nJuliet Happy\n\nLab
 or and the State: The Battle for Trade Union Freedoms in Egypt’s Transit
 ional Period\nNehal Amer\n\n5:15 pm – Closing Remarks by Jameel Brennem
 an\, Symposium Organizing Committee\, CMENAS\n\n\n\nSponsors: Center for
  Middle Eastern and North African Studies\; Rackham Graduate School and De
 an’s Strategic Initiative\; Islamic Studies Program\; African Studies Ce
 nter\; International Institute\; International Policy Center at the Gerald
  R. Ford School of Public Policy\; Department of History\; Department of A
 rt History\; Department of Near Eastern Studies\n	\n
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CATEGORIES:Academic Lecture,Symposium
LOCATION:Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, 1080 South U
 niversity Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, United States
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