THURSDAY, APRIL 26 | Harris 108
2:00 PM | Welcoming remarks: Daniel Linzer, Provost, Northwestern; Opening remarks: Brian Edwards, Northwestern
2:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Session 1
Chair: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern
Amira Mittermaier (Toronto), “Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Egypt”
Lori Allen (Cambridge), “Cynicism and Human Rights in Palestine”
FRIDAY, APRIL 27 | Harris 108
9:30 AM | Coffee and continental breakfast
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 2
Chair: Rebecca Johnson, Northwestern
Firat Oruc (Northwestern), “The ‘Middle East’ as a Literary Space”
Robyn Creswell (Brown), “Nationalism and Modernity: The Origins of Free Verse”
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Session 3
Chair: Katherine Hoffman, Northwestern
Zakia Salime (Rutgers), “Morocco's Anticipated Revolution: 20th February Movement and Gender Dynamics”
Evren Savci (Northwestern), “Queer in Translation: Paradoxes of Westernization and Sexual Others in the Turkish Nation”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Session 4
Chair: Jessica Winegar, Northwestern
Shaden Tageldin (Minnesota), “Fénelon's Gods, al-Tahtawi's Jinn: Trans-Mediterranean Fictionalities”
Rachel Scott (Virginia Tech), “Problematizing Islamism: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic State"
6:00 PM | CLOSING RECEPTION
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Lori Allen is Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, King's College. An anthropologist whose primary research interests center on human rights, nationalism, and Palestine, her articles appear in such journals as Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and History and Memory. Her book, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. |
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Robyn Creswell is an assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University and poetry editor of The Paris Review. He is the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito's The Clash of Images, and currently a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. |
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Amira Mittermaier is an assistant professor in the Department of the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the award-winning book Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination (University of California Press, 2010) and is currently working on a new project on Islamic charity practices in Egypt. |
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Firat Oruc is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in World Literature in the Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in literature from Duke University, and from 2009-11 was a Mellon fellow and visiting assistant professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA. |
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Zakia Salime is an assistant professor of sociology and women and gender studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her current research addresses youth cultural politics in Morocco, with a focus on 20th February movement and hip hop. |
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Evren Savci is a Postdoctoral Fellow of The Sexualities Project at Northwestern, affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Program of Gender and Sexuality Studies. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in Sociology and Gender Studies in 2011; her interests are in sexualities and queer studies, gender studies, global inequalities, transnational and cultural sociology, social theory and epistemology. |
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Rachel M. Scott is an associate professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. Her general area of research is modern Islamic thought, focusing on contemporary Islamic thinking on pluralism, citizenship, religious authority, and the relationship between religion and state. Other research interests include contemporary Qur’anic exegesis and Islamic historiography. She is the author of The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State (Stanford University Press, 2010). |
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Shaden M. Tageldin is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt (University of California Press, 2011) and recent articles in PMLA, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, and Approaches to Teaching Naguib Mahfouz and the Cambridge Companion to the African Novel. |
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