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PROGRAM FOR SERMEISS SPRING MEETING
MARCH 9-11, 2001
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

 

Friday, March 9 Preston Residential College

8:00-9:00 Board Meeting: Senior Common Room

7:00-9:00 Reception: Principals' Lodge

Saturday, March 10 250 Gambrell Hall

9:00-10:00 "How to Get Hated by Your Fellow Muslims: Doctrines and Misadventures of a 13th Century Hermetist from Al-Andalus" Vincent Cornell (University of Arkansas)

10:10-11:10 "Arabic Influences on Folk Psychology: The Case of the Minangkabau of Indonesia" Karl Heider (University of South Carolina)

11:15-11:45 Business Meeting

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:30-2:30 "The Model Arab League as a Teaching Tool" Joe Dunn (Converse College)

2:40-3:40 "Islamicate Interpretations of Yoga" Carl Ernst (UNC Chapel Hill)

6:00 p.m. Dinner at the Camon Japanese Restaurant

7:30 p.m. Films with Taffy Bodman (UNC Chapel Hill) Junior Common Room, Preston


Sunday, March 11 250 Gambrell Hall

9:00-10:00 "Governing Spain's Saharan Province: Integrating Tradition into State Corporatism" Michael Mumford (University of South Carolina)

10:15-12:00 Current Events Discussion led by John Creed (College of Charleston)

12:00 p.m. Lunch & Departure

 


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