#  CMES Faculty Active Speakers This Spring 

 





March 20, 2009

 

 

Traveling as far as Tokyo, Japan and Venice, Italy to impart their expertise, CMES faculty members have been active participants in recent conferences and workshops on the Middle East.

**Ali Asani**  
"Wherever You Turn Is the Face of God"  
Conference: The Face of God in Islam and Eastern Orthodox Christianity  
March 13, 2009: Harvard Divinity School  
  
"Gender in the Muslim World"  
Workshop for high school teachers, organized by Primary Source and University of Massachusetts, Boston  
March 4, 2009

Upcoming events  
Faculty Lecturer for Middle East World Leaders Symposium, presented by Harvard Alumni Association  
March 19–April 3, 2009: 15-day event in the Gulf  
  
"Thinking about Islam: Going Beyond the Headlines"  
Harvard Alumni Association two-part lecture  
April 27 and May 4, 2009: Sever Hall, Harvard Yard  
  
**Bill Granara**  
"What Does It Mean to Be an Arabist," keynote speech  
Conference: Language Education and Resource Network (LEARN): Arabic Culture and Language Studies: Toward Greater Expertise  
Feb 19–20, 2009: U.S. Naval Academy

**Wolfhart Heinrichs**  
"Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights"  
Conference: 219th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society  
March 13–16, 2009: Albuquerque, NM  
  
**Susan Kahn**  
"Reproduction and Artificial Procreation in Judaism"  
Conference: Strategies of Negotiation by Muslim and Jewish Women in the Field of Family Law and Sexuality  
March 2–4, 2009: University of Venice, Italy  
  
**E. Roger Owen**  
Chaired "Café Riche: Reflections on 100 Years of a Modern Egyptian History"  
Conference: MESA Annual Meeting  
November 22–25, 2008: Washington D.C.  
  
"The Study of the Arab World in Western Universities," keynote address  
Conference: The Study of the Arab World in Western Universities  
December 22–25, 2008: London School of Oriental and African Sudies (for Arab League Economic, Social and Cultural Organization)  
  
"Critical Middle East Studies"  
March 20, 2009: British Academy, London  
  
**Sara Roy**  
"Learning from the Holocaust and the Palestinian-Jewish Conflict"  
Seminar: In Search of New Universalities—A Dialogue between the Post-Holocaust and Post-Colonial Generations  
March 4, 2009: University of Toyko, Japan



 

 

 



 

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