Friday, October 20

6:30 p.m. Dinner

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

Saturday, October 21

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-10:00 "Teaching a Different Perspective of the Crusades: Amin Maalouf’s Crusades Through Arab Eyes as an Outside Reading Supplement" Marc Zayac (Georgia Perimeter)

10:00-10:50 "Political, Economic, Social, and Environmental Change in Indonesia: The Last Ten Years" Chris Drake (Old Dominion)

11:00-11:50 "Administration of Justice in Medieval India: An Examination of Policy in Mughal India" Farrukh Hakeem (Shaw)

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

2:00-2:30 Business meeting

2:30-3:20 "The Language Islam Speaks in Iran" Ali al-Taie (Shaw)

3:30-5:00 Panel: "Theological and Eschatological Elements of Modern Middle East Conflicts"

"Abdallah Azzam on Sura 9: Tafsir to Kakfir to Tirade" Rosalind Gwynne (UT-Knoxville)

"Acting Like It’s The End of the World: The Eschatological Struggle of Ahmadinejad, Hizbullah, and Ibn Ladin" Timothy R. Furnish, panel chair (Georgia Perimeter)

"Wahabism: A Transportable Political System"
Sam Elizabeth Baroni (Florida Atlantic)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

7:30 p.m. Films, Vernon Egger (Georgia Southern)

Sunday, October 22

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-9:55 "On The Road to Marrakech--by way of Aghmat: An Archaelogical Perspective on Medieval Moroccan Cities" Ron Messier (Vanderbilt)

10:00-11:45 Current Events Discussion led by Ken Perkins (USC-Columbia)

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure