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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 2007 (Montréal, November 17-20, 2007)
AIYS Meetings
| Board Meeting: |
Saturday Nov. 17, 2:00-4:00 p.m. (Hyatt Regency hotel, room Alfred Rouleau C) |
| General Meeting: |
Saturday Nov. 17, 4:15-5:00 p.m. (Palais des congrès de Montréal, room 512F) |
Provisional list of panels and presentations on Yemen
1. Panel
Sunday, November 18, 2007, 11:00-1:00 a.m.
Revisiting al-Hamdani: New Perspectives on the Indigenous Language Communities of the South Arabian
Periphery
Chaired by Gregory D. Johnson (Princeton University).
- Turning Ploughshares into Words: Dialectical Diversity in Yemeni Arabic, Daniel Martin Varisco,
Hofstra University)
- Reorienting Heritage: Poetic Exchanges between Soqotra and the Gulf, Nathalie Peutz (Princeton
University)
- The Syntax of Particles in Razihi, Bonnie Glover Stalls (independent scholar) and Shelagh G.
Weir (University of London)
- Humayni Poetry in al-Mahra, Samual Liebhaber (Middlebury College)
2. Individual presentations related to Yemen
Sunday, November 18, 2007, various panels, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
"A Queen, a Hujja, in Front of Whom the Majority of slaves are Humbled" -- Female Spiritual
Authority in Islam: The Case of Queen Arwa (1045-1138) of Yemen, Simonetta Calderini (Roehampton
University, London), in the panel Islamic Thought Past and Present
Globalization, Democracy, and Political Cohesion: Forging a New National Identity, (Rolin G.
Mainuddin (North Carolina Central University), in the panel South Arabia and the Gulf
Post-Petroleum Yemen: Chaos and Collapse or Relief from the Curse of Oil?, Charles Schmitz
(Towson University), in the panel South Arabia and the Gulf
Veiled Expections: Islahi Women's Activisms in Yemen, Stacey Philbrick Yadav (Hobart and
William Smith Colleges), in the panel Creating a Paradoxical Political Class: Islamist Parties and
Women's Activism
Monday, November 19, 2007, 2:30-4:30 a.m.
Making Yemen Indian: Rewriting the Boundaries of Imperial Arabia, John M. Willis (University
of Colorado) in the panel Colonial Policy
Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
"Your Master is Your Servant": The Cultural Politics of Migrant Domestic Labour in Yemen,
Marina de Regt (International Institute of Social History), in the panel The Politics of Migrant Domestic
Labour in the Middle East
Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Tensions in the Authoritarian State: The Unintended Consequences of Elite Competition and
Patronage Politics in Yemen, April L. Longley (Georgetown University), in the panel Strategies
of Authoritarian Governance in Comparative Perspective
Presentations on Yemen at previous MESA meetings
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