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Workshops and Conferences
MEMEAC organizes occasional workshops where faculty and graduate students present their research, senior scholars act as discussants, and a small number of academics and graduate students who are keenly interested in the topic attend. For more information contact Anny Bakalian: ABakalian@gc.cuny.edu or 212-817-7570
Past Workshops and Conferences:
Title: Middle Eastern Diaspora Activism Organizer: Beth Baron, Co-Director, MEMEAC Date and Location: March 7, 2008; The Graduate Center View program
Title: Forgotten Children in the Middle East: The Orphaned and Abandoned Organizer: Beth Baron, Co-Director, MEMEAC Date and Location: April 20, 2007; The Graduate Center View program
Title: American Foundations, NGOs, and the Middle East: The Politics of Social Welfare Organizer: Beth Baron, Co-Director, MEMEAC, with funding from the CUNY Faculty Development Grant Date and Location: April 8, 2005; The Graduate Center View program
Title: Middle Eastern Diasporas: (In)visible Minorities Organizer: MEMEAC and the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University and funded by Yale University Date and Location: March 18-20, 2004; Yale University View program
Title: A Century of Armenians in America: Voices From New Scholarship Discussants: Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, Aghop der Karabetian, Susan Pattie Participants: Knarik Avakian, George Byron Kooshian, Jr., Ben Alexander, Diana Vartan, Margaret Manoogian, Claudia der Martirosian, Matthew Ari Jendian, Khachig Tölölyan Date: October 9, 2004 View event flyer View first press release View second press release View program
Title: American Missionaries in the Middle East: Women, Children and Social Welfare Discussants: Mandana Limbert, Robert Tignor, Elena Frangakis-Syrett Participants: Eleanor Doumato, Ellen Fleischmann, Heather Sharkey, Barbara Merguerian, Hilmar Kaiser Date: October 1, 2004 View event flyer View program
Title: Race and Slavery Between the Middle East and Africa Discussants: Khaled Fahmy, Seteney Shami, Robert Tignor Participants: Emad Helal, Mandana Limbert, Thomas McDow, Eve Troutt Powell, Sara Pursley, Elizabeth Smith Date: April 23, 2004 View event flyer
Title: Gendering Middle Eastern History Discussants: Marnia Lazreg, Rula Abisaab Participants: Malek Abisaab, Karen Kern, Akram Khater, Lisa Pollard, Sara Pursley Date: December 12, 2003 View event flyer
Title: MEMEAC Faculty Workshop Discussants: Mandana Limbert, Robert Tignor, Elena Frangakis-Syrett Participants: Simon Davis, Mandana Limbert, Jonathan Shannon, Elhum Haghighat Date: May 2, 2003 View event flyer
Title: Law and Order in Egypt Moderator: Talal Asad Participants: Hussein Agrama, Beth Baron, Elliott Colla, Amr Shalakany, Mohammed Tabishat Date: March 14, 2003 View event flyer

Workshops and Conferences