Political Economy of the Middle East:
Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research
Friday 6 November, 2015
3 pm - 6 pm Merten Hall 1202
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Pizza and Refreshments Served
S C H E D U L E
Panel 1: Field Research : : 3 pm
Melisande Genat, Stanford University
From Agrarian Experiments in the Context of Socialist ``Villagization`` to Population Displacements: Iraqi Kurdish Collective Towns During the Seventies
Max Ajl, Cornell University
Event and Conjuncture : Braudel, Political Economy, and the Tunisian Uprising
Panel 2: Teaching the Middle East : : 4:30 pm
Omar Dahi, Hampshire College
Against the Grain: Syrian Refugees and the Political Economy of Survival
Shana Marshall, George Washington University
Do Not Go Quietly: Human Agency, Contingency, and the Push to Formulate a Structural Explanation of the Arab Spring
Ziad Abu-Rish, Ohio University
Revisiting the Merchant Republic: Lebanon in Comparative Perspective
Samer Abboud, Arcadia University
The World Bank, the Arab Uprisings, and the Poverty of Neoliberal Repetition]
Bassam Haddad, George Mason University
Incorporating Class and Capital in Teaching the Middle East: The Case of Syria, Then and Now
For more information, visit MEIS.GMU.EDU
Sponsored by Middle East and Islamic Studies, Arab Studies Institute, Political Economy Project, AVACGIS, SPIGIA, and Global Programs
