2012 MEHAT Conference

May 4-6, 2012

The MEHAT (http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/) Conference is celebrating its twenty-seventh year as a leading forum for emerging scholars in Middle East studies. The conference welcomes a broad range of graduate students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences. Participants represent a truly interdisciplinary array of disciplines (including, but not limited to, anthropology, art history, cinema and media studies, history, literature, sociology, and religion).  The conference has grown into one of the nation's premier forums for academic research on the Middle East from the 7th century onwards.

MEHAT is pleased to announce its roundtable and keynote address for the 2012 conference:

Roundtable: "Picturing Prophecy: The Falnama (Book of Omens) in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Iran and Turkey"

Professor Kathryn Babayan
Department of History, University of Michigan

Professor Serpil Bağcı
Department of Art History, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Dr. Massumeh Farhad
Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution

Professor Cornell Fleischer
Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, University of Chicago

Friday, May 4th, 5:00 PM
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago

Keynote Address: "Cultures of Literacy and Social Practice in Early Modern Isfahan"

Professor Kathryn Babayan
Department of History, University of Michigan

Saturday, May 5th, 5:00 PM
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago

Visit again soon for the full conference schedule!