PROGRAM FOR SERMEISS FALL MEETING
OCTOBER 13-15, 1995
VALLE CRUCIS, NORTH CAROLINA

Friday, October 13

6:30 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Board Meeting

Saturday, October 14

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00-10:45 "Teaching about Islam" Panel with Lynne Parrott (Richmond Hill Middle School), Carl Ernst (UNC), John Parcels (Georgia Southern), & Kathryn Johnson (UNC Charlotte)

11:00-11:45 "'House' to 'Mistress of the House': Gender and Identity in Mt. Lebanon" Akram Khater (NC State)

12:00 Lunch

1:30-2:00 Business Meeting

2:00-2:50 "Language as an Expression of Berber Identity: Tamazight as a North African Lingua Franca" Rkia Cornell (Duke)

3:00-4:00 "Women, Tradition, and the State in Soviet Kazakhstan" Paula Michaels (UNC)

6:00 Dinner

8:00 Films with Taffy Bodman (UNC)

Sunday, October 15

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00-9:50 "God's Arguments in the Quran" Roz Gwynne (University of Tennessee)

10:00-11:45 Current Events Discussion led by Curt Ryan (Mary Washington)

12:00 Lunch and Departure