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From: Cam Lindley Cross <ksalib at uchicago.edu>
Date: Sun, May 8, 2011 at 2:40 PM
Subject: MEHAT Conference, University of Chicago, May 13-14: Mutual
Perceptions
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 You are cordially invited to attend:

[image: mehat-poster-web.jpg]

*The 26th Annual Middle East History and Theory
Conference<http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference>
*
*“Mutual Perceptions”*

Friday and Saturday, May 13–14, 2011
8:00am–8:00pm (both days)

Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

*Download full program
here<http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/files/2011/05/program-web.pdf>
*

This year, our conference features 22 panels, amounting to 82 individual
presentations. Select titles include “Ottoman Voices of the 16th Century,”
“Theology and Metaphysics,” “Cosmologies and Geographies in Transcultural
Perspectives,” “Schools, Prisons, and Sanitation,” “Liminality: Classical
Arabic Poetry,” “Revolutionary Discourses in Iran,” “Power and Legitimacy in
the Formative Period of Islam,” “Perceptions of Islamic Archaeology, Past
and Present,” “Colonial Anxieties,” and “Perspectives on the ‘Arab Spring’
of 2011.”

Our keynote speakers are Professor *Suzanne Stetkevych*, Indiana University,
Bloomington, with a talk entitled “Takhmis as Verbal Reliquary:
Enshrinement, Inscription and Performance in Shams al-Din al-Fayyumi’s *Takhmis
al-Burdah*,” and Professor *Stephen Dale*, Ohio State University, with a
talk entitled “Hadhrami Merchants and Malayali Muslims: the Origin of the
Islamic Community of Southwest India.” Other highlights will be a concert of
Arabic, Turkish, and Persian music by the Middle East Music Ensemble, and
the famous lamb roast dinner, arranged by the Middle East Studies Students’
Association.

The conference is free and open to the public, so come and share in the
conversation! You can find our full program, plus hi-resolution versions of
our flyers, at our website:

http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference

We look forward to seeing you there! Happy Mother’s Day!

--The MEHAT Coordinators: Cam, Shayna, Mohamad, and Feryal
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