MESA Panel: Salisbury’s Legacy: 175 Years of Arabic Studies in the United States

Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 12:00pm
Boston Marriot Copley Place See map
110 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02116

The Middle East Studies Association’s Annual Meeting will be held in Boston on Sunday, November 30th, beginning at noon. 

“Salisbury and Arabic in New Haven and Beyond”
Roberta L. Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies, Yale University

“125 Years of Arabic Instruction at Hartford Seminary”
Steven Blackburn, Director, Hartford Seminary Library and Faculty Associate in Semitic Scriptures, Hartford Seminary

“Oriental Studies, Semitics, and Arabic at the University of Pennsylvania: Local and Global Politics in Shaping the Field”
Heather J. Sharkey, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

“Orientalist Fidelity and Arab Syrian Awakening: the Paradox of Modernity and American Protestantism in 19th-Century Levant”
Hani Bawardi, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Discussant:
Brian T. Edwards, Crown Professor in Middle East Studies, Northwestern University

Chair:
Frank Griffel, Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University

Organized by:
Roberta L. Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies, Yale University

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This event is part of a series celebrating “The Legacy of E.E. Salisbury: 175 years of Arabic and Sanskrit at Yale.” For more information and a complete listing of events, visit salisbury175.yale.edu

Salisbury 175 at Yale is sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center in conjunction with the Chaplain’s office, the departments of the History of Art and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Babylonian Collection, the Institute for Sacred Music, and the South Asian Studies Council at the MacMillan Center. Funded in part by a US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant.