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MEHAT meets on Mondays in Pick Hall 218, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted below Papers for the workshop are pre-circulated for readership beforehand and will be posted on the website about one week in advance. Spring Quarter 2008 April 14 at 5 p.m.: Aly Dramé, History, Dominican University, Chicago “Migration, Marriage, and Ethnic Identity Transformation: The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial Casamance, Senegal” April 21: Melissa Bilal, Music “A Cry for Justice: Five Armenian Feminist Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey” Tuesday, May 13 at noon in Social Sciences 108: Mahmoud El-Gamal [bio], Economics, Rice University “Incoherence of Contract-Based Islamic Financial Jurisprudence in the Age of Financial Engineering” Co-sponsored by the Money and Markets Workshop. May 19: Kabir Tambar, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations “Secular Populism and the Semiotics of the Crowd in Turkey,” download paper June 2: Orit Bashkin [bio], Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Autumn Quarter 2007 Oct. 15: Amahl Bishara [bio], Anthropology “The Production of U.S. News in the West Bank: Locating Palestinians' Journalistic Labors, and Searching for Palestinians' Voices” Oct. 29: Alain Epp Weaver, Divinity School “Remembering the Nakba in Hebrew: Return Visits as the Performance of a Binational Future” Nov. 12: Kaveh Hemmat, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations “Like Muslims: A 16th Century Persian Travelogue by a Muslim Visitor to China as a Record of Early Modern Civil Society” Nov. 26: Şevket Pamuk [bio], Economics and Economic History, Boğaziçi University “Ottoman State Finances and Fiscal Institutions in European Perspective, 1500-1800” Winter Quarter 2008 Jan. 14: Metin Yüksel, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations “Vestiges of Kurdish Culture in Turkey: Madrasas and Kurdish Oral Tradition” Jan. 28: Mark David Luce, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations “Applying Modern Geopolitical Shatterbelt Zone Theory to the Umayyad Khurasani Frontier” Feb. 11: Elizabeth Frierson [bio], History, The University of Cincinnati “The Politics of Home: Istanbul / Constantinople during World War I” Feb. 25: No Workshop Mar. 10: Ari Barbalat, Center for Middle Eastern Studies