Friday, March 24 Hyde Hall, Institute for Arts & Humanities

7:00-9:00 Informal Reception

8:00-9:00 Board Meeting

Saturday, March 25 Hyde Hall, Institute for Arts & Humanities

9:00-9:50 "Din and Divination" Barbara J. Michael (UNC-Wilmington)

10:00-10:50 "The Production of Locality: Women, Guilds, and Zar Rituals in Cairo" Hagar el-Hadidi (UNC-Chapel Hill)

11:00-11:50 "Hijab in Public Spaces: Veiled Responses and Variable Policies in the Occident" Farrukh Hakeem (Shaw University)

12:00-2:30 Lunch and Charms of Chapel Hill

2:30-3:00 Business Meeting

3:00-4:00 "Reading Strategies for Introducing the Qur'an as Literature" Carl Ernst (UNC-Chapel Hill)

4:10-5:00 "Incorporating Culture Into the Foreign-Language Classroom" Nasser Isleem (UNC-Chapel Hill) and April Najjaj (Greensboro College)

5:30-7:00 Dinner at Talulla's

8:00 Films, John Parcels (Georgia Southern University)

Sunday, March 26 Hyde Hall, Institute for Arts & Humanities

9:10-10:00 "Why Do People Decide Not to Coexist? De-Ottomanizing the Province of Van, 1915" Yektan Turkyilmaz (Duke University)

10:15-12:00 Current Events Discussion led by Charles Kurzman (UNC-Chapel Hill)