PROGRAM FOR SERMEISS FALL MEETING
OCTOBER 10-12, 1997
VALLE CRUCIS, NORTH CAROLINA

Friday, October 10

6:30 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Board Meeting & Reception

Saturday, October 11

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00-10:10 Seminar: "Huntington's Clash of Civilizations" Vernon Egger (Georgia Southern)

10:20-11:15 "A Maghreb Perspective on Europe's 'Conquest" of the Middle East" Bob Hunter (Tulane)

11:15-11:45 Business Meeting

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:30-2:20 "Constitutional Reform in 19th-Century Tunisia: A Reappraisal" Theresa Womble (Agnes Scott)

2:30-3:20 "Take Me Back to Basra: On the Language of Genre in the Hollywood 'Eastern'" John Eisele (William & Mary)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Films with Taffy Bodman (UNC)

Sunday, October 12

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00-9:45 "Islam in American Operas of the 19th Century" Chuck Kennedy (Virginia Tech)

10:00-11:45 Current Events Discussion led by Herb Bodman (UNC)

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure