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MAMEIS 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCESaturday, April 6, 2013Hulman Memorial Student Union—9th Floor SuiteIndiana State University, Terre Haute, Ind.Conference Schedule:8:30am: Coffee and Light Snacks8:45am: Opening Remarks: James M. Gustafson, President, MAMEISSession One: Theorizing Frontiers in the Medieval Islamic World9am-10am: Michael Bonner, University of Michigan? "Frontier and Ideology in the Ninth-Century Mediterranean"10am-11am: Kaveh Hemmat, University of Chicago? "Sufi as Ethnographer in the Khatay’namah"11am-12pm: Talia R. Gangoo, University of Michigan? "Islamization on the Periphery: Conversion to Islam in Pre-Modern Kashmir"Break for LunchSession Two: Managing Diversity on the Periphery of States/Empires1pm-2pm: James N. Tallon , Lewis University? "Establishing the Frontier and Incorporating the Periphery: RevisitingCentralization at the Edge of Empire and the CUP Policy in the Late OttomanEmpire"2pm-3pm: James M. Gustafson, Indiana State University? "Qajar Imperial Discourse in the Great Game: Diversity and Unity in theSafarnamah-yi Bukhara"3pm-4pm: Christopher Hemmig, The Ohio State University? "Racial/Ethnic Politics and Development in the Islamic Republic ofMauritania"Coffee Break / MAMEIS Officers MeetingSession Three: Ethnographic Studies of Multiculturalism in the ContemporaryWorld5pm-6pm: F. Robert Hunter, Indiana State University? "Making it in Terre Haute: The Syrian Community, 1890s-1920"6pm-7pm: Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University? "Occupying Soundscapes: The Choir of Civilization and the Impact of MusicalPerformances on Interreligious Dynamics in Hatay, Turkey"For more information, contact: James.Gustafson@indstate.edu or visit http://www.mameis.org&#60;http://www.mameis.org/&#62;James M. Gustafson, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorDepartment of HistoryIndiana State UniversityTerre Haute, IN 47809James M. Gustafson, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorDepartment of HistoryIndiana State UniversityTerre Haute, IN 47809