PROGRAM FOR SERMEISS SPRING MEETING
MARCH 11-13, 2005
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON

Friday, March 11 Riverview Hotel

7:00-9:00 Reception

8:00-9:00 Board Meeting

Saturday, March 12 Arnold Hall, Yaschik Jewish Center

9:00-9:50 “The Caliph's Earache: Texts, Memory, and History in the Formation of an Islamic Society” David Wasserstein (Vanderbilt )

10:00-10:50 “A Tale of Two Madhis: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Jamal ad-Din al Afghani, and the Sudanese Mahdist Uprising” Lisa Pollard (UNC-Wilmington)

11:00-11:50 “Israeli Perspectives on the Iraq War” John Creed (College of Charleston)

12:00-2:30 Lunch and Charms of Charleston

2:30-3:00 Business Meeting

3:00-4:00 "Arabic from Empire to Nation-State: A Study in Language Ideology" Kristen Brustad (Emory)

4:10-5:00 “Some Possibly Undetected Features of Religion Among the Africans/African Americans in the Early History of Kentucky. Were Any Muslims?” John Long (Western Kentucky)

5:30-7:00 Dinner at the Halsey Gallery, Simons Center for the Arts

8:00 Films–at Riverview Hotel, Vernon Egger (Georgia Southern)

Sunday, March 13 Arnold Hall, Yaschik Jewish Center

9:10-10:00 “Iraq: From Weak State to Failed State” Joyce Wiley (USC-Upstate)

10:15-12:00 Current Events Discussion led by Curt Ryan (Appalachian State)