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AIYS and Yemen
at the Middle East
Studies Association
Meeting

 

 

Sponsorship of MESA panels by AIYS

AIYS, as an organization affiliated with MESA, is entitled to sponsor three panels at the annual MESA meeting. Scholars wishing to propose a panel for AIYS sponsorship need to do so before submitting the panel proposal to MESA for consideration. Panels should conform to all applicable MESA rules; if in doubt about a projected speaker's eligibility to participate, contact MESA or the AIYS Executive Director.

Submitting Panel Proposals to AIYS: Annual Deadlines

Feb.1: panel proposals, on MESA forms, must have been received by the AIYS office for consideration by the AIYS program committee
Feb. 15: panel proposals due at MESA

 

AIYS and Yemen at MESA 2009 (Boston MA, November 21-24, 2009)

AIYS Meetings

Board Meeting:

  • Saturday Nov. 21, 11:45a.m.-1:45p.m (Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Brandeis Room (3rd floor)

    General Meeting:

  • Saturday Nov. 21, 7:30p.m.-9:30p.m. (Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Orleans Room (4th floor)

     

    Provisional list of presentations on Yemen during MESA sessions

    Sunday, November 22, 11:00 a.m.

  • "Yemen and the Maldives Compared: Electoral Contestation and Islamic Republicanism," Scott Morrison, in the panel Electoral Authoritarianism?: State Strategies and Political Contestation (P2217, 5th of 5).

    Monday, November 23, 2:30 p.m.

  • "Religious Practices of Older Yemeni Women: Continuity and Change," Sophia Pandya (California State University, Long Beach), in the session Gender, Sexuality, Representation (P2227, 5th of 5).

    Monday, November 23, 2:30 p.m.

  • "Which Patron to Please? Voters, Tribes, International Donors, and Government Welfare Strategies in Developing Countries," Anya Vodopyanov (Harvard University), in the panel Patronage and Clientelism in the Contemporary Middle East (P2201, 4th of 4).

    Tuesday, November 24, 1:00 p.m.

  • "Spatialities of Labor in the Qat Industry of Sana'a, Yemen," John Lauermann (University of South Carolina), in the session Class, Labor, and Production," (P2271, 1st of 4).
  • "Governing Mobility: Immigration and Asylum in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Sudan," Helene Thiollet (Sciences Po Paris), in the session Class, Labor, and Production," (P2271, 4th of 4).

    Presentations on Yemen at previous MESA meetings