co-sponsored event: Paradigmatic Conflict and Crisis

The MESAAS Graduate Conference: Paradigmatic Conflict and Crisis

Co-sponsored by the Institute for African Studies, the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, GSAS, and the Middle East Institute.

Preliminary List of Panels:

Panel I: Paradigmatic Differences in the Study of Islamic Thought
Kenan Tekin: “Making Sense of Marifetname of Ibrahim Hakki”
Ahab Bdaiwi: “From Philosophical Orientalism to Philosophy as a Way of Life: Paradigmatic Shift in the Modern
Study of Islamic Philosophy in the West”
Matthew Coogan: “Textuality and Experience: Paradigms in the Anthropology of Islam”

Panel II: Community as a Paradigmatic Principle in Islamic Law
Ahmet Temel: “Formation of Sunni Paradigm: Early Attacks on Qiyās and Ijmā‘, the Two Hallmarks of Sunnī Paradigm”
Dale Correa: “Testimony's Trump Card: Communitarianism in the Ḥanafī-Māturīdī School”
Katie Renee Larson: “Gender in Islamic Jurisprudence: The role of Judicial Discretionary Power Today”

Panel III: Conceptualizing Modernity
Taimoor Shahid Khan: “The Enchanted Paradigm: Modernity of Difference in Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s Poetry”
Jackson Perry: “The Future of Eisenstadt's Axial Age”
Rebecca Faulkner: “Muhammad Iqbal and Constituting a Modern Muslim Subjectivity”

Panel IV: Economies of Empire
Michael Hendrix: "Egyptian discourses of resistance to the 2011-2012 IMF Loan”
Omar Cheta: “Rethinking the Capitulations: Merchants and Divisible Sovereignty in Late Ottoman Egypt”
Max Ajl: “From Materialism to Settler Colonialism: A Slippery Slope”

Panel V: Advent of Modernities
Arda Eksigil: “The Consequences of the Decline of the Decline Paradigm in Ottoman History”
Begum Adalet: “The Imaginary Laboratory: Dankwart Rustow and the Role of Turkey in Modernization Theory”
Archana G Prakash: “Reproducing "Useful" Expertise after the Egyptian Student Missions to France”

Panel VI: Politics of Public Space
Navid Hassanzadeh: “Post-Nationalism and Western Modernity: Beyond the Limits of the 'European-Wide Public Sphere'”
Sarah El-Kazaz: “A Visible Public: Gazing, Historical Preservation and Reconfiguring the "Public" in Istanbul and Cairo”
Jonathan Monpetit: “Room Enough for Everyone? The Politics of Public Space in post-Mubarak Egypt”

Panel VII: Rethinking Paradigms of Modern Arab History
Ghassan Fawzi: “Palestine – Israel: Paradigmatic continuity and change”
Gregor Nazarian: “The Red Line of Selective History: Shifting Paradigms in Lebanese Historiography”
Mohammed Ezzeldin: “The Historiography of Nation and Crime in Modern Egypt”

Panel VIII: Dynamics of Control in the Nation State
Yelena Biberman: “Paradigms of Coercion and the Puzzle of States Outsourcing Violence”
Varun Sanadhya: “Hindutva as a Paradigmatic Intervention: Politics of Polemics and a Response to the Khilafat Movement”
Mona Mehra: “Identifying India: A Tale of Two Nationalisms”

Panel IX: Self and Subject
Anna Reidy: “Pulsional Incidents: The Carnal Stereophony of Tangier”
Yannick Marshall: “Post-Colonial Subjectivity and the Global Society of the Spectacle”
Taylor Moore: “Egyptian Beauty, Parisian Charm: Fashioning the Modern Subject in Semicolonial Egypt, 1930-1952”

WAFA Roundtable: 
This roundtable discussion will concern feminist paradigms in academia and other institutions of power.  Currently soliciting potential speakers/moderators/respondents.  

Baraza Roundtable - "Decolonizing the Digital"
“Decolonizing the Digital” will address questions surrounding the role of the Digital Humanities as an emerging field of knowledge in current and future scholarly research on the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Crucial to this discussion is the decentering of the Europhone/North American academy as the locus of work within the Digital Humanities.