Relocated MESA Sessions

Waleed Hazbun, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins has requested that we post the following rescheduled Middle East Studies Association (MESA) panels on the blog. As many of you know, MESA also planned its annual meeting in SF at about the same time as the AAA. The MESA board decided that they could not get put of their contract with Hyatt which has also locked out its workers.

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION (MESA) CONFERENCE
November 20-23, San Francisco

The following panels have been relocated from the Hyatt due to the lockout:

Roundtable on Culture, Violence, and Media

Saturday, November 20
2pm-4pm

Location: Stacey's Bookstore, 581 Market Street
(Located between 1st & 2nd Street on Market. Just off the Montgomery Street BART stop)

Chair: Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University

Rebecca Luna Stein, Duke University
Invasion, Occupation, and Other Tourist Practices (1)

Michelle Woodward, Independent/MERIP
Trends in Photographic Style and the Depiction of Israeli-Palestinian
Conflicts, 1948-2004

Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University
Tourism, Terrorism, and Security: Remapping the American geopolitical
imagination

Discussant: Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas

Whose Heritage? Whose Environment?

Tuesday, November 23
8:30am-10:30am

Location: Stacey's Bookstore, 581 Market Street
(Located between 1st & 2nd Street on Market. Just off the Montgomery Street BART stop)

Chair: Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University

Talinn Grigor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
'Orient Oder Rom' Debate: The 1901-(re)Invention of 'Iran's Cultural 'Heritage'

Laura Strachan, McMaster University
The Success and Sustainability of the Wadi Rum Protected Area: Multiplicity in Opinion, Experience and Positioning

Heather M. Alden, University of Texas at Austin
National Parks in Egypt's South Sinai Peninsula

Jeannie L. Sowers, University of Iowa
Environmental Controversy and Authoritarian Rule: The Politics of Egypt's Toshka Project

Howyda Al-Harithy, American University of Beirut
World Heritage: A Redefinition