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Issue 1/January 1998
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
Issue 1/January 1998
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
January 1. Tel Aviv, Ambassador Mohamed Bassiouny on Egypt-Israel Relations, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University: Elisheva Brown, browne@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
January 3-5. Chicago: ME Economic Association annual meeting at Loyola University: mcinar@luc.edu
January 8-11. Seattle, Annual conference, American Historical Association. "Comparative history": aha@aha.msu.edu or http://web.gmu.edu/chnm/aha.
January 13. Tel Aviv, Israel. Dayan Center. Bernard Lewis, "Israel at the Half-Century."
January 15-16. Cambridge, England. Cambridge University Branch, Middle East Students Union, First International Symposium on the Future and the Middle East. ibn-rushd@geocities.com or ms257@cam.ac.uk
January 20. Tel Aviv, Israel. Dayan Center. Bernard Lewis, "The Multiple Identities of the Middle East."
January 25. Tucson, Arizona, Teaching Hebrew Literature in Translation,
University of Arizona, Tucson. Anyone interested in writing a chapter in a
book on this topic can also send an abstract and resume to Esther Fuchs
January 25-31. Haifa/Beersheva, Israel. Third Israeli Seminar in Political
Geography: Nurit Kliot, nuritk@geo.haifa.ac.il or David Newman,
newman@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
February 9-12. West Sussex, England, Building Bridges Between Islam and the
West: wilton@pavilion.co.uk or
http://www.fco.gov.uk/reference/wilton_park/index.html.
February 12-13. London, England, "Tigris-Euphrates: Water, Evolving Political Economies and Regional Relations": ta1@soas.ac.uk or http://www.soas.ac.uk/geography/waterissues/
February 15-16. Dubai, UAE, Aging and Pensions in the GCC. Third in a series of conferences organized by the MENA Business Forum that focus on issues vital to economic growth and stability in the Middle East. ISEPME@harvard.edu
February, 22-25. Saudi Arabia. Ministry of Higher Education seminar about higher education, A futuristic look at the next century.
February, 23-25. Manama, Bahrain, Arab-European Information and Media: A Dialogue for the Future. Euro-Arab Center for Studies in cooperation with the Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies and Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation. Ragheb Khourshid, Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies, gcssbh@batelco.com.bh or http://www.gcss.org.uk
February, 23-27. Kigali, Rwanda, Comprehensive Water Resources Development of the Nile Basin: To Benefit All. The Sixth Annual Nile 2002 Conference, Frank Rutabingwa, National Organizing Committee, Sixth Nile 2002 Conference, Environment and Development Project, Ministry of Agriculture, P.O. Box 621, Kigali, Rwanda; phone (250)7-6958; fax (250)8-5057.
February 24-25, 1998. Tehran, Iran, Regional Approaches in the Persian Gulf.
Papers must be submitted by January 24, 1998. IPIS@neda.net or
http://www.ipis.org
March: Deadline for submitting manuscripts to the Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Litterature Comparee special
issue, Modern Arabic Literature: The Comparative Perspective, regarding:
genre studies, literary theory, feminism, Western scholarship on Naguib
Mahfouz, bibliography and the role of translation: Muhammad Deeb
March 1998. Amman, Jordan, Conflicts and Religions in the Middle East, Center for Research on Arms Control and Security. Hostmaster@jo.rdg.ac.uk
March, 8-10. Denver, Colorado, Avoda and Ibada: Worship and lirugy in Judaism and Islam, Institute of Islamic-Judaic Studies, University of Denver. Abstract deadline April 1, 1998, sward@du.edu
March 17-21. Minneapolis, Minnesota, International Studies Association: http://www.isanet.org
March 19-21. Chicago, Illinois, "24th Annual Third World Conference:
Visioning for the 21st Century: Globalization, Transformation and
Opportunity," Third World Conference Foundation (TWCF):
March, 23-28. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Warwick UK, "Democracy, Public Opinion and the Use of Force in a Changing International Environment" Philip Everts, Everts@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl or Pierangelo Isernia, Isernia@unisi.it
March 25-28. Amman: "Social History of Jordan, 19th-20th
centuries," al-Urdun al-jadid Research Center: ujrc@go.com.jo
April. "Urban Development: A challenge for Frontier Regions,"
Negev Center for Regional Development, Ben-Gurion University:
http://www.bgu.ac.il/NCRD/ or Harvey Lithwick, lithwick@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
April 3-5. Binghamton University, SUNY, "Aspects of
Contemporary North Africa: Islamic Assertion, Ethnic Diversity, and
the State." ldatto@binghamton.edu
April 4-18. Maghrebi Arts Festival, Binghampton University, SUNY: http://maghreb.net/writers/festival.htm
April 17-18. Binghamton, SUNY: "Recovering the Past,"
including panels on Maghrebi literature written in French.
http://www.binghamton.edu/academics/bulletin/romance.html
April 17-18. Cambridge University, UK: "Information superhighways and multi-lingual computing". 6th Int'l conf on multi-lingual computing [Arabic-English]. Center for ME Studies: au100@cam.ac.uk
April 24-25. Portland, Oregon, Center for Iranian Research and Analysis
(CIRA) 16th Annual Conference in association with Portland State
University's Middle East Studies Center, Iran and the Region: Past, Present
and Future Relations with Its Neighbors, Submit proposals for paper or panel
by January 12, 1998: Dr Nadir Entessar entessar@azalea.shc.edu or
http://www-adm.pdx.edu/user/mesc/cira
May 7. Tel Aviv, Israel. "U.S. Middle East Policy Today," one day
conference, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University: Elisheva
Brown, browne@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
May 7-9. Cairo, Egypt. Conference on Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean, The American University in Cairo, Abstracts for twenty-minute papers due by January 15: David Blanks, dblanks@acs.auc.eun.eg
May 8-9. Chicago, Illinois, 13th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Submit abstract by February 23, 1998. Michael Provence, prov@cicero.uchicago.edu
May 15-16. Bergen, Norway, "Meeting-Places: Christian Groups in Egypt and Their Relations to Muslim, Jewish, and Other Christian Groups in Egypt and the Middle East." International workshop on social and cultural relations between the three religious groups. Abstracts must be sent by January 15: Inger.Okkenhaug@smi.uib.no or http://www.hf.uib.no/i/smi/meb/mp98.html
Mid-May. JUSUR conference, UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: jusur@ucla.edu or http://www.isop.sscnet.ucla.edu/nec/jusur.htm
May 17-21. Haifa, Israel, International Congress on "Conflict Resolution through Inter-Cultural Bridges." ada@tx.technion.ac.il or http://tx.technion.ac.il/~ada/home.html
May, 22-24. Bethesda, Maryland, Second biennial conference on Iranian studies. American Institute for Iranian Studies, Society for Iran Studies: Karimi-Hakkak, 2nd Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, University of Washington, Box 353120, Seattles, WA 98195.
May, 29-31 1998, Merrilville, Indiana, "One for one: Voices of diversity": kamilyr@calumet.purdue.edu
May-June 1998, Tunisia, "The Maghrib in World History," dates to
be announced, annual conference, American Institute for Maghreb Studies,
Prospectus deadline March 1: jcsmith@ccit.arizona.edu
June 2-4. Or-Yehuda, Israel, Congress for Babylonian [Iraqi] Jewry Research:
http://www.babylonjewry.org.il
June 8-10. Tel Aviv, Israel, "Armies in the 21st century," BESA Center for Strategic Studies: Elisheva Brown, browne@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
June, 19-20. Bonn, Germany, "German and International Research on
Oman," Oman Studies Centre, the German-Omani Association and Beta
Publishing, Bonn. Conference languages are English and German. Abstract must
be in by March 31: http://www.oman.org/bonn.htm or Paul Yule,
paul.yule@t-online.de or Joachim Duester, jduester@pobox.com
July 15-17. Durham, England, International Boundaries Research Unit,
University of Durham, "Borderlands Under Stress": Mrs. Julia
Oliver, j.c.oliver@durham.ac.uk or http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk
July 26-August 7. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA ACUNS/ASIL Summer Workshop on International Organization Studies
"Globalization and Global Governance: Changing Roles for State and Non-State Actors," The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the American Society of International Law (ASIL), for advanced graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and younger faculty. Completed applications must be postmarked no later than January 30: ACUNS/ASIL Summer Workshop, Brown University, Box 1983, 172 Meeting Street, Room 209, Providence, RI 02912-1983
July 27-30. West Sussex, England, "Peace and Stability in the Middle
East: The Realities": Elizabeth Harris, wilton@pavilion.co.uk or
http://www.fco.gov.uk/reference/wilton_park/index.html
August 16-21. Haifa, Israel. "Western Intervention in the Middle
East," workshop at The International Society for the Study of European
Ideas: Eliezer Tauber
Autumn 1998, Fayetteville (?), Arkansas, "Conference on Syria":
lschilch@pcsw.uark.edu
September 28-October 2. Bonn, Germany, Deutscher Orientalistentag.
DAVO@geo.Uni-Mainz-de Website: http://www.geo.uni-mainz.de/davo
November, 19-21. DAVO Kongress, "Transformationsprozesse in den
Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients": DAVO@geo.Uni-Mainz-de or
http://www.geo.uni-mainz.de/davo (http://www.geo.uni-mainz.de/davo)
Proposals for panels: DAVO@lambada.geo.uni-mainz.de
December 3-6. Chicago, MESA Conference. Proposal deadline February 17:
mesa@ccit.arizona.edu or http://www.mesa.arizona.edu (NB proposals not accepted
by email or fax). (includes the meeting of the Society for Gulf Arab Studies.
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