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May 9 & 10, 2008 in Ida Noyes Hall at the
The keynote address will be delivered by Donald Quataert [bio],
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FRIDAY, MAY 9 Islamic Aesthetics Ida
Noyes West (Chair: Professor Tahera Qutbuddin, btq@uchicago.edu, - Murat Inan,
umutinan@u.washington.edu, University of
Washington, Seattle “Analyzing
the Ghazals of Hafiz and Fuzuli: A Comparative Approach to ‘Unity’” - Gül
Kale, gul.kale@mail.mcgill.ca, “Intellectual world of an Ottoman Architect; Surpassing
Formal Analysis in Ottoman Architectural History” - Matt Saba, mdsaba@uchicago.edu, “Depicting Sound: The Aesthetics of Music Performance and
Manuscript Painting in Islamic Mapping Urban
Locales Ida
Noyes East (Chair: Elena D. Corbett, ecorbett@usna.edu, U.S. Naval
Academy) - Huma Gupta, humagupta@gmail.com,
“The Place of Slums in Utopia: Constantinos A. Doxiadis
and Urban Planning in 1950s - Naima Brown, nsbrown@uchicago.edu, University of Chicago “Prominence and
Permanence; Competing Narratives in Guided Tours of Jerusalem” - Mohamed Elshahed, mke221@nyu.edu,
“ Islamic Modernities
and Reform Ida Noyes Library (Chair: Professor Hussein Agrama, hagrama@uchicago.edu, - Junaid Quadri, junaid.quadri@gmail.com,
“Two Muftis of - Sharif Islam, mislam@uiuc.edu, “A reassessment of Islamic Modernism: Comparing
and Contrasting the Salafi and Sufi critique” - Nurullah Ardic, ardicnur@ucla.edu,
“Islamic Discourse, Secular Reform: Abolition of the
Caliphate” Reconceptualizing
Safavid (Chair: Professor Paul Losensky, plosensk@indiana.edu, - Derek W. Davison, davisond@uchicago.edu, “A Qizilbash Perspective on Safavid History: Examining Tārīkh-i
Qizilbāshān” - Ferenc Csirkes, fcsirkes@uchicago.edu, “Preliminary Notes on the Status of Turkish Literature in
Safawid - Derek J.
Mancini-Lander, mancland@umich.edu, University of Michigan “Teaching
Humility, Learning Authority: Knowledge Transmission and Ritual Practice in
the Safavî World” Religion and Modern (Chair: Professor Elizabeth Frierson,
frierseb@email.uc.edu, - Jeremy Walton, jeremy@uchicago.edu, University of Chicago “A Limited Public: Theorizing Turkey’s Risale-i Nur Classes” - Kabir Tambar, kabir@uchicago.edu,
“Secular Crowds and Populist
Politics in - Ayshe Polat, apolat@uchicago.edu,
“The Dilemmas of the Presidency
of Religious Affairs in Muslim Diasporas Ida
Noyes Library (Chair: Professor Brian Edwards,
bedwards@northwestern.edu, - Professor Serife Genis, serifegenis@yahoo.com,
“Albanian Diaspora in - Professor Petra Kuppinger, petra@monm.edu, “Himmelstochter
or Negotiating German Islam” Islamic Political
Thought: Rhetoric & Counsel Ida Noyes West (Chair: Professor Wadad Kadi, w-kadi@uchicago.edu, - Professor Vanessa De Gifis, vjmathia@uchicago.edu, “Qur'anic Rhetoric during the Abbasid Civil War” - Jennifer A. London, jlondon@uchicago.edu, “Medieval Wisdom Literature and ‘the Circle of Justice’” - Joel Blecher, jblecher@princeton.edu, “Approaching the Rhetoric of Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb” Islam, Secularism
and Capitalism Ida
Noyes East (Chair: Professor Ali Fatemi, afatemi@depaul.edu, - Professors Mohammed Akacem, akacemm@mscd.edu,
Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Kada Akacem,
akacemkada@hotmail.com, University of Algiers “Islamism and Secularism: The Case of - Professor
Dennis D. Miller, dmiller@bw.edu,
Baldwin-Wallace College “Lacking Evidence of Islamic Constraints to - Professor Emin Baki Adas, eminadas@gmail.com,
“Production of Trust and Distrust: Islamic Entrepreneurs,
Transnational Networks and the State in Literature, Film
and National Experience Ida
Noyes Library (Chair: Dr. Farouk Mustafa, f-mustafa@uchicago.edu, - Sevinc Turkkan, turkkan@uiuc.edu,
“From Text to Translation to Interpretation: Orhan Pamuk’s
Novels and their “Afterlife” in English, German, and Film” - Sinan Yildirmaz, sinanyildirmaz@gmail.com, “The Making of “Village
Literature” in - Narges Bajoghli, narges@uchicago.edu,
“The Outcasts in the
Islamic Edward Said
Professor of Arab Studies, “The Cold War in
the SATURDAY, MAY 10 Reconsidering
Traditional Muslim Histories Ida
Noyes West (Chair: Professor John Woods, j-woods@uchicago.edu,
- Shiraz Hajiani, hajiani@uchicago.edu, “Enemies of the State:
Constructions of the Ismā`īlīs in the Siyāsat-nāma
of Niẓām al-Mulk” - Dr. Maher Y. Abu-Munshar,
m.abumunshar@almi.abdn.ac.uk, “Fatimids, Crusaders and
the Fall of Islamicjerusalem: Foes or Allies?” - Scott Savran, sosavran@wisc.edu, University of “Early Muslim Historiography on the al-Qadisiyya
Embassies: A Case Study in Shu‘ubiyya
Polemics” Challenges to the
Turkish Nation-State Ida
Noyes East (Chair: Professor Holly Shissler, ashissle@uchicago.edu,
- Professor Tamer Balci, tbalci@utpa.edu,
University of Texas-Pan American “The Historical Philosophy of the Turkish-Islamic
Synthesis” - Professor Hakan Ozoglu, aozoglu@mail.ucf.edu,
“Exaggerating and Exploiting the
Sheik Said Rebellion of 1925 for Political Gains” - Metin Yuksel,
metin@uchicago.edu, “A ‘Communist Mullah’ from Anthropological
Perspectives on Gender and Politics Ida Noyes Library (Chair: Dr. Carolyn Goffman, cgoffman@depaul.edu, - Kelda Jamison, keldaj@uchicago.edu,
“‘Honor’, ‘violence’, and the
circulating boundaries of cultural specificity: dilemmas of a feminist and
Kurdish political project” - Hikmet Kocamaner, hikmet@email.arizona.edu,
“Conversations Across the Bosphorus:
The Poetics and Politics of Depicting Other Women” - Rania K. Sweis,
rsweis@stanford.edu, “Wavering Between Victim and
Perpetrator: Reflections on
Neoliberalism and the Gendered Politics of Youth in Contemporary History and
Archeology: Reading the Past through Ceramics Ida Noyes East (Chair: Choukri Heddouchi, choukri@uchicago.edu,
- Robert R. Tate, rtate@uchicago.edu,
“The Seljuks at Gordion:
Ceramics of - Dr. Katherine Strange Burke,
ksburke@ucla.edu, “The - Laura M.
Holzweg, lmholzweg@uchicago.edu, University
of Chicago “What the Middle and Late
Islamic Ceramics of Tell Hesban and Northern Jordan can contribute to the
Economic History of Jordan“ Competing Identities
in (Chair: Professor Hale Yilmaz, yilmaz@siu.edu, Southern
Illinois University) - Amal Eqeiq, aeqeiq@u.washington.edu, “Ask your Father! : New
Palestinian Cinema in - Alain Epp Weaver, eppweaver@uchicago.edu,
““The Cross and the Crescent Are the Marks on My Hands”:
Mapping the Nation and the Performance of Palestinian Christian Identity” - Sara Yael Hirschhorn, sarayael@uchicago.edu,
“Kach (Thus) He Was Elected: An Analysis Of Social
Support For Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Kach Party And The 11th Israeli
Knesset Elections Of 1984” Imperialism &
the (Chair: Professor Donald Quataert,
dquataer@binghamton.edu, State University of New York, - Frank
Castiglione, castigfr@mcmaster.ca, McMaster
University “Scholar of
the - Professor
Halil Erdemir, uygula@yahoo.com, Celal Bayar University “ - Naci
Yorulmaz, naciyorulmaz@hotmail.com, “German
Style of Penetration: War Business in the Ottoman Market (1871-1908)” Ottoman
Peripheries: Empire and Minorities Ida
Noyes East (Chair: Professor Cornell Fleisher,
c-fleischer@uchicago.edu, - Stefania Costache, scostac2@uiuc.edu, “Konstantinos Dapontes’ worlds (1713/1714-1784) – A
Phanariot secretary’s stories of travel and office in the Ottoman lands” - Huseyin Alptekin, halptekin@gmail.com,
“‘Diversity in Unity’ in the - Muhsin Soyudogan, muhsin@bilkent.edu.tr, “Your Money or My Freedom: A Discussion on Tribal Banditry
around Ayntab Region of Sectarianism in the
Modern (Chair: Professor Ellen Amster, eamster@uwm.edu,
- Chris Anzalone, canzalon@indiana.edu,
“In the Name of the Imam: The Shi‘i ‘Ulama, Nationalism,
and the State in the Contemporary - Helena Kaler, hjkaler@gwu.edu, “Defining ‘Sectarianism’ in the Modern - Stephen Bowden, sbowden@uchicago.edu, “Trends in Hizb Allah's Use of Terrorism” (Chair: Professor Orit Bashkin, oritb@uchicago.edu, - Mohammed Elghoul, mje2106@columbia.edu, “The - Roy S. Fischel, fischel@uchicago.edu,
“Abdülhamid II and - Yeliz
Baloglu, ybaloglu@brandeis.edu, Brandeis University “Reliving the 1492 experience? The case of Jewish
Immigration into the Professor of
History, SUNY, “History from Below
in Ottoman and Middle Eastern Studies: a Call for Volunteers” |
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