6:30 p.m. Dinner

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

Saturday, October 10

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-10:00 "Everyday Belief, Practice, and Study: Fragments of Early Islamic Texts on Papyrus"
Matt Malcyzcki (Auburn)

10:00-10:50 "West Meets East: The Influence of Islamic Design on Italian Renaissance Ornament" Tiffanie Townsend (Georgia Southern)

11:00-11:50 "Between Holy War and Symbiosis: The Delicate Balance of Late Medieval Ethiopia, the Neighboring Sultanates, and Mamluk Egypt" Andrew Kurt (Western Carolina)

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

2:00-2:30 Business meeting

2:30-3:20 "The Educational System of Uzbekistan"
Saida Akbarova (Uzbek State University of World Languages)

3:30-4:30 "Slaves and other Trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo in 1850" Terry Walz (Independent Scholar, and former Executive Director, American Research Center in Egypt)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

7:30 p.m. Films

Sunday, October 11

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-10:00 "Darfur, the Sudan Crisis, and American Politics" Peter Bechtold (Chairman emeritus, Near East/North Africa Area Studies, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State)

10:10-11:45 Current Events Discussion led by Vernon Egger (Georgia Southern)

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure