SERMEISS SPRING MEETING
The University of North Carolina
March 7-9, 1997

Friday, March 7

7:00-9:00 Reception, Tate-Turner-Kuralt Bldg: 5th Floor Atrium

8:00-10:00 Board Meeting

Saturday, March 8

9:00-11:00 "A Muslim-Christian Dialogue" Shabbir Mansuri (Council of Islamic Education) and Whitney S. Bodman (Harvard)
Discussants: Kathryn V. Johnson (UNC Charlotte) & John Parcels (Georgia Southern) Moderator: Charles Kennedy (VPI Emeritus)

11:15-12:00 "Finding the Western Self in the Oriental Other: An 18th Century English Woman's Sojourn in Istanbul" Mary Ann Fay (VMI)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:00 Business Meeting

2:00-2:45 "Abdul-Husayn Mirza Farman Farma: A Meiji Model in Persia?" Travis Hanes (UNC Wilmington)

2:45-3:30 "Cherokee Muslims?" Diane Chidester (USC)

3:30-4:15 "A Voice of Dissent: Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadani's Challenge to the Discourses of Legitimacy in Seljuq Iran" Omid Safi (Duke)

6:00 Banquet at the Carolina Inn

8:00 Films with Taffy Bodman (UNC)

Sunday, March 9

9:00-10:00 "Muslim Women's Access to Divorce" Lucy Carroll Stout (National Humanities Center)

10:00-12:00 Current Events, led by Sheila Carapico (University of Richmond)