Program
The conference will take place on Friday, February 9, 2018 through Saturday, February 10, 2018 at Sanford Rubenstein Hall, 200 at Duke University.
Friday, February 9, 2018
8:30 a.m. Breakfast and Registration
9:00-10:15 a.m. Key Note Address by Dr. Banu Gökarıksel
10:30-11:45 a.m. Panel One: “Race and Slavery in the Post/Colonial”
- “Egyptian Nubians Navigating the Pan-Arabist and Islamist Movements in Egypt” by Fatema Elbakoury
- “‘Eating the Other:’ Metaphors of the Racialized Black Body in Turkey” by Zavier Wingham
- Faculty Respondent: Dr. Juliane Hammer
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15-2:30 p.m. Panel Two: “Transnational Reimaginings of the Levant”
- “Syrian Refugee Women and Emerging Identities in Displacement” by Leila Asadi
- “Reimagining Home, Redefining Community: Three Visions of Geography and Identity in the French Levant” by Josh Donovan
- Faculty Respondent: Dr. Charlie Kurzman
2:45-4:00 p.m. Panel Three: “Translating Islam”
- “Nigerian Abolitionist Labor on the Pilgrimage Trail” by Sara Katz
- “One God, Indivisible: The Cultural Translation of Islam into Chinese in Wang Daiyu’s The Real Commentary on the True Teaching” by Andrea Valedon-Trapote
- Faculty Respondent: Dr. Carl Ernst
Saturday, February 10, 2018
9:30-10:00 a.m. Breakfast and Arrival
10:00-11:15 a.m. Panel Four: “Critical Cartography”
- “Redefining the ‘Border between Two Worlds:’ Waterscapes of Ismaili Devotion along the Panj River in Tajikistan” by Sohrob Aslamy
- “Landscapes of War: Space and Society in Mandate Syria (1920-1946)” by Adrien Zakar
- Faculty Respondent: Dr. Anna Bigelow
11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:30-1:00 p.m. Closing Remarks and Discussion
The conference is free, but registration is required. In order to reserve your spot, please visit go.unc.edu/gradconf2018.