CASAW Induction Programme 2008
16-17 September 2008
Tuesday 16 September 10.00-10.30: Jonathan Featherstone “Arabic Dialects”
10.30-11.00: Ewan Stein “Islamic MIlitancy & Changing Faces of Security in Egypt
11.00-11.30: Break
11.30-12.00: Andrew Marsham “New Historical Perspectives on Islamic Origins”
12.00-12.30: Giovanni Bochi “Social & Political Mobilisation in the Arab World”
12.30-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30-14.00: Chris Davidson “Is Dubai One Big Bubble?”
14.00-14.30: Rodney Wilson “The Changing Political Economy of the Arab World…”
14.30-15.00: Break
15.00-15.30: Carole Hillenbrand “The Crusades: Past and Present”
Wednesday 17 September
10.00-10.30: Elisabeth Kendall “Modern Arabic Literature”
10.30-11.00: Dalia Mostafa “Literary Representations of Beirut in the Contemporary Lebanese Novel”
11.00-11.30: Break
11.30-12.00: Alain George “On the History of Arabic Calligraphy”
12.00-12.30: Philip Sadgrove “Arab Renaissance Studies”
12.30-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30-14.00: Christian Lange “Paradise and Hell in Islam”
14.00-14.30: Tony Gorman “Avoiding Essentialism: The non-Arab Arab World”
14.30-15.00: Break
15.00-15.30: Ayman Shihadeh “Theories of Perception in Medieval Arabic Philosophy”
15.30-16.00: Ben White “Doing Modern Middle Eastern History - Problems & Perspectives”
***This event is obligatory for new CASAW students while IMES postgraduates and returning CASAW students who might wish to attend are warmly welcomed. For those students for which this is not obligatory, we kindly ask that you inform us if you plan to attend so that we may have an idea of numbers.
