Papers/Presenters:
“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