# CMES Reunion, April 3, 2009 March 04, 2009 CMES has been selected as the featured center for the 2009 GSAS Alumni Weekend. A reunion has been planned for Friday, April 3. GSAS Alumni Day follows on Saturday, April 4 and will feature a talk by Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History. CMES faculty, staff, and affiliates warmly welcome alumni back to campus. Details are listed below and are available on the GSAS site — be sure to check back for updates. Formal invitations with full details will be sent to CMES alumni in early March. Events are by invitation only and space is limited. Please contact Kristin Brown, Coordinator of Events and Alumni Relations, by email at with questions. RSVP to . **Harvard GSAS 2009 Alumni Weekend — Schedule of Events** **Center for Middle East Studies Reunion, Friday April 3** *Points of Conflict in the Middle East* Registration/lunch with faculty, alumni, and guests Location: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102 11:45am–1:15pm Afternoon Panels Location: Lamont Library, Forum Room, Harvard Yard Welcome, **Steven Caton**, CMES Director and Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies 1:30pm Panel 1 — Iraq 1:45pm–2:45pm Chair: **Roy Mottahedeh**, AB '60, PhD '69, Gurney Professor of History Speaker: **Roger Owen**, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History Respondent: **Jon Alterman**, PhD '97, Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies Panel 2 — Sudan 3pm–4pm Chair: **William Graham**, AM '70, PhD '73, Dean, Harvard Divinity School; Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity Speaker: **Eve Troutt Powell**, AB '83, AM '88, PhD '95, RI '06, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Respondent: **J. Lorand Matory**, AB '82, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies Panel 3 — Iran 4:15pm–5:15pm Chair: **Afsaneh Najmabadi**, AB '68, AM '70, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Speaker: **Naghmeh Sohrabi**, AM '96, PhD '05, Assistant Director for Research, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University Respondent: **Tarek Masoud**, Assistant Professor of Public Policy 5:30–6:30pm Reception 6:30–8:30pm Dinner **GSAS Alumni Day, Saturday, April 4** Harvard Faculty Club 3:15pm–4:45pm: Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History *The Rise of the Arab Security State* See also:- [ CMES News ](/news-type/cmes-news) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)