The Jadaliyya environment page editors are pleased to feature the below selection of panels and roundtables focused on environment and climate at the 2023 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (MESA). MESA 2023 will be held in person in Montréal, Québec from November 2–5.
We hope you will join us in attending these sessions, contributing to their discussions, and encouraging the ongoing growth of an interdisciplinary conversation on urgent environmental questions at MESA.
Please note that audience members must register in order to attend the conference.
Thursday, 2 November
Ottoman Social and Environmental Engineering in the Long Nineteenth Century
Thursday, November 2 at 3:00 pm
Dr. Amal Cavender -- Chair
Dr. Stephen Pascoe -- Presenter
Seriyye Akan -- Presenter
Sumeyye Kocaman -- Presenter
Baris Tasyakan -- Presenter
Environmental Crisis and Political Movements in MENA & the Indian Ocean World
Thursday, November 2 at 5:30 pm
Dr. Wilson Chacko Jacob -- Organizer, Presenter
Michael Christopher Low -- Discussant
Zozan Pehlivan -- Presenter
Conor Kilroy -- Presenter
Friday, 3 November
At the Edges of Lebanon: Communities and the Spatial Politics of Infrastructural Development
Friday, November 3 at 8:30 am
Dr. Jens-Peter Hanssen -- Discussant, Chair
Molly Oringer -- Presenter
Cynthia Kreichati -- Presenter
Dr. Diala Lteif -- Organizer, Presenter
Zeead Yaghi -- Organizer, Presenter
Climate Change, The Environment, and Natural Disasters
Friday, November 3 at 8:30 am
Reza Sohrabi -- Chair
Dr. Stephen P. Gasteyer -- Presenter
Dr. Martin Hvidt -- Presenter
Lauren Baker -- Presenter
Nimah Mazaheri -- Presenter
Dr. Andreas Rechkemmer -- Presenter
Ahmet Öztürk -- Presenter
Ecocritical Terrains: Rethinking Tamazghan and Middle Eastern Landscapes
Friday, November 3 at 11:00 am
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev -- Organizer, Presenter, Chair
Dr. Anna Levett -- Presenter
Prof. Matthew Brauer -- Presenter
Ramyar Rossoukh -- Presenter
Tracy Valcourt -- Presenter
Friday, November 3 at 11:00 am
Dr. Livia Wick -- Organizer, Chair
Dr. Farha Ghannam -- Discussant
Dr. Basak Can -- Presenter
Dr. Weeam Hammoudeh -- Presenter
Dr. Aysecan Terzioglu -- Presenter
Doaa Hammoudeh -- Presenter
Unearthing Capitalism: Social-Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction and Resistance
Friday, November 3 at 1:30 pm
Dr. Rebecca Gruskin -- Organizer, Presenter
Deren Ertas -- Organizer, Presenter, Chair
Dr. Mattin Biglari -- Discussant
Dr. Brahim El Guabli -- Presenter
Mark Drury -- Presenter
Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The Crises of Humanitarianism, Climate Change, and Refugees
Friday, November 3 at 4:00 pm
Mr. Umit Seven -- Chair
Ms. Danae Panissié -- Presenter
Dr. Nils Lukacs -- Presenter
Houman Oliaei -- Presenter
Ayda Pomeshikov -- Presenter
Saturday, 4 November
Environmental Degradation and Activism
Saturday, November 4 at 8:30 am
Reza Sohrabi -- Chair
Prof. Kaveh Ehsani -- Presenter
Dr. Cagdas Dedeoglu -- Presenter
The Removal of Doubts: Producing Natural Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire
Saturday, November 4 at 8:30 am
Ms. Yasemin Akcaguner -- Organizer, Presenter
Dr. A. Tunç Sen -- Chair
Prof. Nir Shafir -- Discussant
Maryam Patton -- Presenter
Dimitrios Giagtzoglou -- Presenter
Mr. Cem Turkoz -- Presenter
Environmental Anthropology and the Middle East
Saturday, November 4 at 3:00 pm
Dr. Sa'ed Atshan -- Organizer, Chair
Ms. Tessa Farmer -- Presenter
Dr. Anne Meneley -- Presenter
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins -- Presenter
Dr. Caterina Scaramelli -- Presenter
Peter Habib -- Presenter
Munira Khayyat -- Presenter
Sunday, 4 November
New Approaches to the Political Economy and Environmental History of Ottoman Greater Syria
Sunday, November 5 at 11:00 am
Dr. Samuel Dolbee -- Organizer, Presenter
Dr. Resat Kasaba -- Presenter
Dr. Sherene Seikaly -- Presenter
Elizabeth Williams -- Presenter
Nora Barakat -- Presenter
Huricihan Islamoglu -- Presenter
Sunday, November 5 at 11:00 am
Dr. Rachel Green -- Organizer, Presenter
Yasmine Khayyat -- Presenter
Shir Alon -- Presenter
Nour Eldin Hussein -- Presenter