Annual Meeting Since 1967, MESA has held an annual meeting in the fall where members gather to share research. MESA has been the hub for scholarly exchange from its first meeting at The University of Chicago in 1967 where a small group gathered for eight sessions to MESA’s 50th anniversary meeting in Boston in 2016 where 312 sessions delighted more than 2,000 attendees.
Based on the preliminary programme, panels with papers of potential interest to this list include:
5731 Contemporary Politics in Syria and Iraq
5767 Pre-Modern Minorities
5660 The Politics and Poetics of Language in the Persianate World
5635 Women as Patrons and Producers of the Islamic Sciences
5512 Non-Sunni Muslims, Yezidis, and the (Local) Ottoman State: Politics of Difference between Persecution and Accommodation
5658 The Nahj al-Balagha as a Case Study of Early Islamic Pietistic Literature
5406 From al-Hadi ila al-Haqq to Husayn al-Huthi: The Zaydi Phenomenon in Yemen
5498 Contested Modes of Islamic Leadership
5594 Margins, Marginals, and Marginalities in the Late Ottoman Empire The full preliminary programme and an on-line, more up-to-date searchable version can be found here.
