Some of the perceptions and misconceptions people from the Middle East and the United States have had about each other throughout history will be explored in a two-day conference titled "The United States and the Middle East: Cultural Encounters."
The event, organized by the Council on Middle East Studies and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies with support from Hofstra University, will take place Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8 and 9.
The conference will feature five panel discussions: "The Search for the Ancient and Holy," "Religious Paradigms," "Text and Context: Incorporating the Other in Literature," "Exporting Religion and Education" and "Visual Representations." It will begin on Friday with registration at 1:30 p.m. Most events will take place in Rm. 203 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Among the individual topics speakers will address are "American Palestine: Mark Twain and Touristic Commodification in the Holy Land," "'Benevolent Supremacy': Biblical Epic Films, Suez, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Power," "Ottoman Official Attitudes Towards the American Missionaries," "The Image of New York in Arabic Literature" and "Turkish Spy Genre in Early American Literature." The speakers are from various U.S. universities as well as schools in Lebanon, Tunis, Egypt and Turkey.
On Friday at 6:30 p.m., there will be a musical performance by Charles Kennedy of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University titled "When Palestine Played the Palace: Vaudeville Interprets the Balfour Declaration." This event will be followed by a dinner.
Coordinated by Yale historian Abbas Amanat, chair of the Council on Middle East Studies, and Magnus Bernhardsson of Hofstra University, the conference was made possible through a grant from the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund. For information and a program brochure, call (203) 432-5596 or send e-mail to barbara.papacoda@yale.edu.
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