Program

Friday, February 18th

All talks in Texas Union, Eastwoods Room

9:00-10:15     Linguistics: Pedagogy – Curriculum
Moderator: Kevin Burnham

• Study Abroad in Egypt: The role of Arabic and English, Emma Trentman, Michigan State University
• Assess eh exactly? Issues in Assessing AFL Grammatical Knowledge, Nesrine Basheer, Columbia University
• High School Arabic Immersion Programs – Structure, Function and Curriculum, Britten Milliman, University of Texas

10:15-10:30     Break

10:30-12:15    Literature: Diasporic Voices
Moderator: Anita Husen

• Charting New Territories: Khalīlū, the Picaresque, and the Poetics of the Everyday, Johanna Sellman, University of Texas
• Representation of Loss: Raduan Nassar and Milton Hatoum write the Arab diaspora in Brazil, Silvia Ferreira, University of California – Santa Barbara
• Flock, Pack, and Swarm On the Blank Shield of the Desert: al-Shanfara and Deleuze, Jessica Martin, University of Texas
• Zones of conflict or translation? Reading Arabic / Writing English in Ahdaf Soueif’s Map of Love and Somaya Ramadan's Awraq, Dima Ayoub, McGill University (unable to attend)

12:10-1:30    Lunch

1:30-2:45    Linguistics: Sociolinguistics
Moderator: Alex Magidow

• Arabizi or Romanization: The dilemma of writing Arabic texts, Randa Muhammed (presenter), Mona Farrag (presenter), Nariman Elshamly, and Nady Abdel-Ghaffar, The American University in Cairo (VIA SKYPE)
• Codeswitching in the Determiner Phrase: French in contact with Tunisian and Moroccan Arabic, Rebekah Post, University of Texas
• :) vs. ^^ :Paralinguistic Cues and Identity in Tweets from the Arab World, Amy Johnson, Georgetown University (Unable to attend)
• Analyse This! - "laa tarbiya wa laa ta'liim" as an example of a very, very mixed Arabic, Ivan Panovic, Oxford University (Unable to attend)

2:45-3:00    Break

3:00-4:40    Literature: Enchanted Cities
Moderator: Michal Raizen

• Intellectual Space in Naguib Mahfouz's Thartharah fawq al-Nīl, Robert Farley, California State University – Long Beach (VIA SKYPE)
• The Language of Commemoration in 1990s Lebanese Fiction, Ghenwa Hayek, Brown University
• Postcolonial Aftershocks: The Politics of Qur'anic Discourse in al-Tahir Wattar’s "al-Zilzal," Hoda El Shakry, University of California – Los Angeles
• Yet Unborn: The City as Myth and Metaphor of the Modern in Several Poems by Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb and 'Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayāti, Niko Banac, University of California – Los Angeles

4:40-5:00     Break

5:00        Welcome Speech

5:30         Keynote - Devin Stewart - Investigating Speech Genres in Arabic Dialects

7:00-9:00     Conference dinner

Saturday, February 19th

All talks in: ACE 2.402

9:00 -10:40     Literature: Contested Narratives
Moderator: Cory Jorgenson

• Egyptian women bloggers/authors: Gender and genre in Dar el Shorouk’s published blog series, Nancy Linthicum, University of Michigan
• Rituals of Denial: "Rumor Clinics" in 21st-century Egyptian Television, Blogs and Newspapers, Benjamin Koerber, University of Texas
• Moroccan Malhun Poetry: Art and Society, Melanie Clouser, University of Texas
• Reading Russian in the Arabic Nahdah: the translations of Khalil Baydas, Spencer Scoville, University of Michigan

10:40-11:00    Break

11:00 – 12:15     Linguistics: Linguistic Perspectives
Moderator: Emilie Zuniga

• Deriving Arabic Nunation and Its Properties in the Light of Greenberg’s Numeral Classifier Hypothesis, Francesco Grande, Università di Pisa
• Surprise and Play in Al-Jahiz’s Sequences, Jeannie Miller, New York University
• Tunisian Arabic Corpus: Creating a Written Corpus for an "Unwritten" Language, Karen McNeil, Georgetown University

12:15-1:30    Lunch

1:30-2:45 Traditions, transitions and norms
Moderator: Rachel Levine

• Andalusian Variations: Ibn Rushd and the Farabian Tradition of Linguistic Theory, David Owen, Harvard University
• Gender, Arabic and the Divine, Carolyn Baugh, University of Pennsylvania
• Language and Sexuality: a case study from Lebanon, Jedidiah Anderson, Indiana University – Bloomington

2:45-3:00    Break

3:00-4:00    Career Workshop: Short presentations followed by Q&A
Featuring: Esther Raizen, Na’ama Pat-El, and Samer Ali

4:15-5:30     Linguistics: Pedagogy – Learner Issues
Moderator: Greg Ebner

• The Effects of Processing Instruction and Meaning Output Instruction on the Acquisition of the Arabic Past Tense, Youness Mountaki, University of South Florida
• The Relationship between Language Aptitude and Knowledge of Arabic Derivational Morphology to Vocabulary, Said Hannouchi, University of Wisconsin
• Phonetic Training for Learners of Arabic, Kevin Burnham, University of Texas

5:45    Keynote Speaker – Wail Hassan – New Directions in Arabic Literary Studies