CMES has been selected as the featured center for the 2009 GSAS Alumni Weekend. A reunion has been planned for Friday, April 3. GSAS Alumni Day follows on Saturday, April 4 and will feature a talk by Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History.  

CMES faculty, staff, and affiliates warmly welcome alumni back to campus. Details are listed below and are available on the GSAS site — be sure to check back for updates. Formal invitations with full details will be sent to CMES alumni in early March.  

Events are by invitation only and space is limited. Please contact Kristin Brown, Coordinator of Events and Alumni Relations, by email at kebrown@fas.harvard.edu with questions. RSVP to gsaa@fas.harvard.edu.

Harvard GSAS 2009 Alumni Weekend — Schedule of Events

Center for Middle East Studies Reunion, Friday April 3

Points of Conflict in the Middle East

Registration/lunch with faculty, alumni, and guests
Location: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102
11:45am–1:15pm

Afternoon Panels
Location: Lamont Library, Forum Room, Harvard Yard

Welcome, Steven Caton, CMES Director and Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies
1:30pm

Panel 1 — Iraq
1:45pm–2:45pm

Chair: Roy Mottahedeh, AB '60, PhD '69, Gurney Professor of History
Speaker: Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History
Respondent: Jon Alterman, PhD '97, Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Panel 2 — Sudan
3pm–4pm

Chair: William Graham, AM '70, PhD '73, Dean, Harvard Divinity School; Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity
Speaker: Eve Troutt Powell, AB '83, AM '88, PhD '95, RI '06, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Respondent: J. Lorand Matory, AB '82, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies

Panel 3 — Iran
4:15pm–5:15pm

Chair: Afsaneh Najmabadi, AB '68, AM '70, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Speaker: Naghmeh Sohrabi, AM '96, PhD '05, Assistant Director for Research, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
Respondent: Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor of Public Policy

5:30–6:30pm Reception

6:30–8:30pm Dinner

GSAS Alumni Day, Saturday, April 4
Harvard Faculty Club
3:15pm–4:45pm: Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History
The Rise of the Arab Security State