Friday, October 12

6:30 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Reception & Executive Board Meeting

Saturday, October 13

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-10:00 "The International Politics of Iraqi Kurdish Refugee Migration" Carl Dahlman (USC)

10:00-10:50 "Contested Heavens: Intrareligious Polemics and Formation of the Kitab al-Mi'raj Attributed to Ibn 'Abbas" Frederick Colby (Duke)

11:00-11:45 "The Dilemma of Double Standards in Human Rights Policy: U.S. Policy Toward Israel and Turkey" Scott Turner (Montevallo)

12:00 p.m. Lunch & Autumn in the Mountains

2:30-3:00 Business meeting

3:00-3:50 "Transforming the Old: Cairo's New Medieval City" Caroline Williams (William and Mary)

4:00-4:50 "You Don't Know What You've Got until It's Gone: Preserving Yemen's Architectural Treasures" Fran Hassencahl (Old Dominion)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

7:30 p.m. Films with Taffy Bodman (UNC Chapel Hill)

Sunday, October 14

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-9:55 "Early American Imaginations of Islam" Timothy Marr (UNC Chapel Hill)

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

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure