Friday, October 10

6:30 p.m. Dinner

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

Saturday, October 11

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-10:00 "Dancing to a Degree: From Belly Dancer to Anthropologist" Dianne Chidester (Jefferson Community College)

10:00-10:50 "Goals of the Iraq War" Joyce Wiley (USC-Spartanburg)

11:00-11:45 "Bin Laden’s Mentor Abdallah Azzam: A First Look at His Life and Thought" Rosalind Gwynne (University of Tennessee)

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

2:30-3:00 Business meeting

3:00-3:50 "Manly Men or Colonized Effeminates? Masculinity in Egypt’s Struggle for Independence" Lisa Pollard (UNC-Wilmington)

4:00-4:45 "Teaching English, Writing History, and Embracing Morocco: A Fulbrighter and a Freeloader in Agadir, 2002-2003" Ken and Margaret Perkins (USC-Columbia)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

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

Sunday, October 12

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-9:55 "Luxenberg’s Recent Study: Syriac Influence on the Quranic Text" Devin Stuart (Emory)

10:00-11:45 Current Events Discussion led by Curt Ryan (Appalachian State)

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure