PROGRAM FOR SERMEISS FALL MEETING
OCTOBER 16-18, 1998
VALLE CRUCIS, NORTH CAROLINA

Friday, October 16

6:30 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Board Meeting & Reception

Saturday, October 17

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00-9:50 "Democratization in Crisis? Parties, the Press, and Elections in Jordan" Curtis Ryan (Mary Washington)

10:00-10:50 "Oriental Assassins: Condemnations or Mimetic Fantasies?" Waddah al-Khatib (UVA)

10:50-11:45 "Al-Sulami's Book of Early Sufi Women: Reclaiming a Lost History of Women's Leadership in Islam" Rkia Elaroui Cornell (Duke)

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:30-2:00 Business Meeting

2:00-2:50 "Women in Saljuq Politics: The Case of Tarkan Khatun" Omid Safi (Duke)

3:00-3:50 "Islamic Landscapes in Senegal and Mali" (slide presentation) Chris Drake (Old Dominion)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

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

Sunday, October 18

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00-9:45 "The Family Politics of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution" Lisa Pollard (UNC Wilmington)

10:00-11:45 Current Events Discussion led by David Champagne (Fort Bragg)

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure