Friday, March 12

7:00-9:00 Reception at Comfort Inn

8:00-9:00 Board Meeting

Saturday, March 13

9:00-9:50 "Bay'at: The Rite of Initiation into the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam" Mubasher Ahmad

10:00-10:50 "Emerging Environmental Politics in Jordan" John Creed (College of Charleston)

11:00-11:50 "In Search of a Homeland: Transnationalism and the Cherkess Repatriation in Turkey" Bayan Gonul Ertem (Kennesaw State)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:00 Business Meeting

2:00-2:50 "Economic Adjustment and Political Reform in Morocco" Robert King (Georgia Perimeter College)

3:00-4:45 Film, 119 Bullets Plus Three, followed by seminar discussion

6:00 p.m. Banquet at Belk Center

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

Sunday, March 14

9:00-10:00 "Mission Democracy: International Monitoring of Arab Elections" Sheila Carapico (University of Richmond)

10:15-12:00 Current Events Discussion led by David Champagne (Fort Bragg)