May 9

Morning proceedings in:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

9:00-9:30: Buffet Breakfast

9:30-10:30: Daniel Klingensmith (Maryville): Of “Ancient Irrigation” and Modern Dams: Orientalism, Nationalism and Water Policy in Late Colonial Bengal, 1925-1947
Discussant: Bridget Hanna

10:40-11:40: Jennifer Derr (Stanford): Water and the Geography of Authority The 1902 Aswan Dam and the constitution of the colonial state
Discussant: Anand Vaidya 

11:40-1:00: Lunch

Afternoon proceedings in:
CGIS South Room S050
1730 Cambridge Street

1:00-2:00: Jessica Barnes (Columbia): Building Socio-Natural Worlds: The Establishment of Water User Associations in the Fayoum, Egypt
Discussant: Miriam Shakow

2:10-3:10: Kelly Alley (Auburn): India’s River linking plan: History and Current Debates
Discussant: Anjali Adukia

3:20-4:20: Mandana Limbert (CUNY): Water Men, Water Time, and Water Stories in Southern Arabia
Discussant: Steve Caton

4:30-5:30: Christopher City (Clark): Law’s Nature: Understanding the Role of Law in Constructing Drought
Discussant: Nicola Ulibarri

Evening: Participants’ dinner

May 10
Day's proceedings in:
CGIS South Room S050
1730 Cambridge Street

9:00-9:30: Buffet Breakfast

9:30-10:30: Peter Rogers (Harvard): Political Decision Making: Real Decisions in Real Political Contexts
Discussant: Steve Caton

10:40-11:40: Leila Harris and Samer Alatout (UW-Madison): Negotiating Scales, Forging States: Scalar Constructions of Water Resources and State Building in the Upper Tigris/Euphrates and Jordan River Basins
Discussant: Steve Caton

11:40-1:00: Working lunch to plan next year's conference

1:20-2:20: Samer Alatout (UW-Madison): Water from absolute to economic scarcity: Israeli water policymaking and the construction of neoliberal subjects
Discussant: Andrea Murray

2:30-3:30: Lisa Bjorkman (New School): Water in the City: rethinking the scale of politics
Discussant: Anand Vaidya

3:50-5:30 Wrap-up discussion

Evening: Working dinner to plan next year's conference

CMES Event: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Water and Society in World Perspective