James L. Gelvin - Recent Conference Presentations

Recent Conference Presentations

Panel: “Reaping the Fruit of the Arab Spring: Seeds of Peace or Further Discontent?” Pacific Council on International Policy Annual Conference, November 2011.

“Teaching MEIS through the Social Sciences: What Do Students Need to Know?,” Conference: “The Middle East across the Curriculum,” California State University, Northside, November 2011.

Moderator, New Approaches to Algerian Jewish Studies, UCLA, October 2011.

“Rethinking the Big Picture: Narrating Middle Eastern History in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings, 1944-Present,” Conference: “Teaching the Middle East after Tunisia and Egypt: Beyond Orientalism, Islamophobia, and Neoliberalism,” George Mason University, May 2011.

“Arab Uprisings: Causes and Patterns,” Roundtable: “Egypt for the Egyptians: The Uprisings in the Middle East,” Pomona College, February 2011.

Chair/Discussant: Rethinking Ottomanism: Citizenship, Nationhood, and Late Imperial Modernity,” Annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, November 2010.

Introduction, Circuits and Networks Conference, UCLA, February 2010

“American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East,” Conference: “Connections and Ruptures,” Center for American Studies and Research, American University in Beirut, January 2010.

“Politico-Economic Discourse and the Middle East State in the Twentieth Century,” Conference: “The Global Middle East,” University of North Carolina, February 2009.

“Foucault and the Historiography of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East,” Conference: “Foucault and Middle East Studies, UCLA, April 2009.

“Al-Qaeda as Anarchism,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2009.

“Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside-Out,” Conference: “Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Political Violence,” German Historical Institute and Tulane University, October 2008.

‘‘Modernity,’ ‘Tradition,’ and the Battleground of Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Damascus,” Conference: “Traditional Scholarship and Asian National Modernity,” Indiana University, Bloomington, October 2008.

“Political Islam: Beyond Religion and Terror,” Plenary Session, Conference: Colloquium on Violence and Religion, University of California, Riverside, June 2008.

“Recent Trends in the Historiography of Nationalism in the Middle East,” Panel: "New Directions in Middle East Historiography," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2008.

“Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian’s Response to Terrorology,” Jihadi Islam Conference/Workshop, November 2007.

“Iraq: Four Years Later,” UCLA Department of Sociology Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series, Public Sociologists Working Group, April 2007.