I U A E S Commission on Anthropology of the Middle East Anthropology Transforming, Middle East in Tension

In English
Closed to the public

Chair: Soheila Shahshahani
Co-Chair: Paulo Pinto
Executive Secretary: Magdalena Rodziewicz

Regional Representatives:
Soraya Tremayne & Christian Bromberger: Europe
Mary Hegland: United States and Canada
Paulo Pinto: South America
Tomoko Yamagashi: East Asia

Panels:

1. Medicalisation

Chair: Soraya Tremayne (soraya.tremayne@anthro.ox.ac.uk)

2. Games and Sports

Chair: Christian Bromberger (brombergerchristian8@gmail.com)

3. Human-Animal Relations

Chair: Jean-Pierre Digard (jpdigard@gmail.com)

4. Gender and Sexuality in Iran and the South Caucasus at the Turn of the 20^th Century

Chair: Janet Afary (jafary@ucsb.edu)

5. Memoirs, Life Histories, Stories, Narratives, Oral History and Memory:

Individuals of Middle Eastern Societies

Chair: Mary Elaine Hegland (mhegland@scu.edu)

6. New Realities: The Role of Technology in Shaping Everyday Life in the Middle East

Chair: Seyed Abdolreza Hosseini (abdr.hosseini@gmail.com)

7. Rituals in Movement: Pilgrimage, Globalization, and Diaspora

Chairs: Paulo Pinto and Gisele Fonseca Chagas (philu99@gmail.com; giselechagas@id.uff.br)

8. Decolonial and Feminist Movements in Central Asia: Resistance, Agency, and Transformation

Chair: Rano Turaeva (Rano.Turaeva@lmu.de)

9. Emerging Spiritualities: The Trajectory of New Spiritual Practices in Turkish Society

Chair: Kerem Görkem Arslan (kg.arslan@unistra.fr)

10. Research in Progress

Chair: Soheila Shahshahani (soheilairan@gmail.com)

11. Toward Visual Anthropology: A screening of documentary films from the Middle East followed by a discussion

Shilan Sa’adi (shilan.saadi80@gmail.com)