Friday, October 20

6:30 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Board Meeting & Reception

Saturday, October 21

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-10:00 "Representing the Middle East: Sovereignty, Imperialism, and the East-West Divide in Ottoman Cartoons" Palmyra Brummet (University of Tennessee)

10:00-10:50 "Antar Ibn Shaddad and Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry" Driss Cherkaoui (William & Mary)

11:00-11:45 "Talking Turkey: Turkish Views of the 21st Century World--The Evidence in Maps" Donald Zeigler (Old Dominion)

12:00 p.m. Lunch & Autumn in the Mountains...Fair, Waterfall, View from the Inn....

2:30-3:00 Business Meeting

3:00-3:50 "Coat of Many Colors: Interpretations of Joseph in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions" Allen Davidson (Georgia Southern)

3:50-4:50 "Syria Today" Panel chaired by Ellie Wilson (Grandview Middle School)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

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

Sunday, October 22

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00-9:45 "Tensions Between Human Rights Organizations and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza" Lisa Hajjar (Morehouse)

10:00-11:45 Current Events Discussion led by Charles Kurzman (UNC Chapel Hill)

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure