Kadercan, Pelin (Brown University)

[P4556] Jazz Combos, Reading Circles, Military Bands: Integrating the Auditory into Late and Post-Ottoman Social Histories (1880s-1920s) -- Presenter

Kahn, Michelle (Stanford University)

[P4524] Europe and its Others: Historical Perspectives -- Presenter

Kalbarczyk, Nora (Ruhr University Bochum)

[P4422] Theorizing Clarity and Style: The Development of Bayān through the Centuries -- Presenter

Kalemkerian, Kathryn (McGill University)

[P4474] New Directions in the History and Literature of Lebanon: An Interdisciplinary Discussion of Gender and Sexuality -- Presenter

Kallander, Amy (Syracuse University)

[P4320] What's love got to do with it? Political Imagination and Discourses of Love -- Presenter
[P4320] What's love got to do with it? Political Imagination and Discourses of Love -- Organizer

Kalmbach, Hilary (University of Sussex)

[P4680] Performing Identities & Authenticities -- Chair

Kamali, Maryam (Harvard University)

[P4441] Slave Women and Free Men: Mediating Social Change in the Medieval Middle East -- Presenter

Kanna, Ahmed (University of the Pacific)

[R4487] Capitalism and Class in the Middle East: Reflections on the Arab Uprisings -- Presenter
[R4435] Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings -- Chair

Kao, Kristen (University of Gothenburg)

[P4622] Shifting Patterns of Authoritarianism and Democratization -- Presenter

Kapitan, Rima (Kapitan Law Office)

[C4700] BDS and Middle East Studies: Historical, Political and Legal Dimensions, Year 2 -- Presenter
[P4392] Hey you, precarious worker: Are you afraid of BDS? Graduate students, untenured faculty, and the politics of political commitments -- Presenter

Karahan, Burcu (Stanford University)

[R4311] Teaching Turkish in the 21st Century: How to Develop a New Curriculum -- Presenter

Karakoc, Ekrem (Binghamton University)

[P4407] Experimental Methods in the Middle East -- Presenter
[P4378] Representation and Elite Behavior in Politically-Polarized Turkey -- Discussant
[P4378] Representation and Elite Behavior in Politically-Polarized Turkey -- Chair

Karam, Jeffrey G. (Crown Center for Middle East Studies)

[P4633] Public Opinion, Policy Making, and Reform: Past and Present -- Presenter

Karaman, Emine Rezzan (UCLA)

[P4645] Kurdistan and the Ottoman Empire -- Presenter

Karamursel, Ceyda (SOAS, University of London)

[P4387] Law as Social History in the Late Ottoman Era -- Presenter

Karic, Dzenita (SOAS, University of London)

[P4475] Deconstructing al-Manar and the Legacy of Rashid Rida: Transnational Islamic Reformism and Authority in the Early 20th Century -- Presenter

Karimi, Ali (McGill University)

[P4652] Political Economy: Past & Present -- Presenter

Karimullah, Kamran (University of Manchester)

[P4396] Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Form, Strategies and Purpose -- Presenter

Karlitekin, Selim (Columbia University)

[P4449] Knowledge production and Ottoman Empire: travelogues in the long nineteenth century -- Presenter

Kårtveit, Bård (University of Oslo)

[P4664] Economic and Social Change in 19th and 20th Century Egypt -- Presenter

Kasaba, Resat (University of Washington)

[P4471] Engaging a Fractured Law: Rights, Identities, and Legal Activism in Turkey -- Chair

Kassem, Susann (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)

[P4604] Walls, Borders and Boundaries: Displacement and Confinement in the MENA region -- Presenter

Katuska, Amy

[P4642] The Anthropology of Sociability -- Chair

Kavanaugh, Andrea (Virginia Tech)

[P4670] Tunisia’s Democratic Transition: Progress and Challenges -- Presenter

Kayali, Liyana

[P4660] Gender and Conflict: Activism, Resilience, and Disengagement -- Presenter

Kayyali, Randa (George Washington University)

[P4563] 50 YEARS AGO: THE 1967 WAR'S IMPACT ON ARAB AMERICANS AND ARABS IN AMERICA -- Organizer
[P4563] 50 YEARS AGO: THE 1967 WAR'S IMPACT ON ARAB AMERICANS AND ARABS IN AMERICA -- Presenter

Keaney, Heather N. (Westmont College)

[R4455] Breaking the two stone tablets: experiments in teaching outside the standard textbooks, narratives, and assignments in survey courses -- Organizer
[R4455] Breaking the two stone tablets: experiments in teaching outside the standard textbooks, narratives, and assignments in survey courses -- Presenter

Keli, Haje (SOAS, University of London)

[P4370] Gendered Critical Kurdish Studies: Rethinking nationalism, conflict and identity -- Presenter

Kennedy, Hugh (SOAS University of London)

[P4595] Power and Institutions in Times of Transition: Case Studies from the Medieval Middle East -- Presenter

Keough, Leyla (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

[P4658] Women and the Economy -- Presenter

Keshavarzian, Arang (New York University)

[P4399] Technology and Transnational Networks in the Middle East -- Chair
[P4399] Technology and Transnational Networks in the Middle East -- Discussant

Kesrouany, Maya (New York University Abu Dhabi)

[P4579] Grounds of Comparison: Remapping Arabic Literary and Cultural Studies -- Presenter
[P4579] Grounds of Comparison: Remapping Arabic Literary and Cultural Studies -- Organizer

Kestanian, Hratch (Graduate Center, CUNY)

[P4499] War, social reform and social medicine in the Middle East (19th-21st century) -- Presenter

Ketsemanian, Varak (Princeton University)

[P4424] New Issues, Perspectives and Sources in Armenian Studies -- Presenter

Khalek, Nancy (Brown University)

[P4450] Narrative Strategies in Early islamic Historiography -- Organizer

Khalidi, Lamya (National Center for Scientific Research)

[R4434] The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Yemen and Current Preservation Efforts -- Presenter

Khalil, Osamah (Syracuse University)

[P4315] Exploring the Field: New Perspectives on Middle East Studies in the United States -- Presenter

Khalili, Laleh (SOAS, University of London)

[P4399] Technology and Transnational Networks in the Middle East -- Presenter
[R4319] Electrifying Middle East and North African Studies -- Chair

Khan, Suraya (Rice University)

[P4563] 50 YEARS AGO: THE 1967 WAR'S IMPACT ON ARAB AMERICANS AND ARABS IN AMERICA -- Presenter

Khannous, Touria (Louisiana State University)

[P4660] Gender and Conflict: Activism, Resilience, and Disengagement -- Presenter

Khatam, Azam (City Institute York University)

[R4435] Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings -- Presenter

Khater, Akram F. (North Carolina State University)

[P4459] Moving Homelands: Migrations and Memory in the Twentieth Century -- Discussant
[R4345] Digitizing Women's and Gender History: A Way Forward for the Field? -- Presenter

Khayat, Nicole (University of Haifa)

[P4512] Queens, Ghosts, Damsels and Modernity's Distress - Novels and History in Arab and Ottoman Societies -- Discussant
[P4512] Queens, Ghosts, Damsels and Modernity's Distress - Novels and History in Arab and Ottoman Societies -- Chair
[P4437] What was new about the Nahda? -- Presenter

Khazzoom, Aziza (Indiana University Bloomington)

[P4313] Arab Jewish Belonging in the Middle East after Israel's War of 1948 -- Presenter

Kheirandish, Elaheh (Harvard University)

[P4418] The Legacy of A.I. Sabra: New Perspectives on the History of Science in Islam -- Presenter

Khondker, Habibul

[P4552] Competing Epistemologies: Modernizing and Traditionalizing Trends in the Arabian Gulf -- Presenter

Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi (New York University)

[P4314] Assessing the Legacy of Fayz Muhammad "Katib-i Hazarah" -- Presenter

Kibris, Guldeniz (Leiden University)

[P4471] Engaging a Fractured Law: Rights, Identities, and Legal Activism in Turkey -- Presenter

Kilic, Kutbettin (Indiana University-Bloomington)

[P4654] Kurds in Contemporary Politics -- Presenter

Kim, Somy (Boston University)

[C4706] Reading Middle Eastern Literatures Comparatively -- Chair
[C4706] Reading Middle Eastern Literatures Comparatively -- Presenter
[S4721] Undergraduate Research Poster Session -- Chair

King, Judd (American University)

[P4401] Global Reactions to ISIS/DAESH: Diversity and Antipathy -- Organizer
[P4401] Global Reactions to ISIS/DAESH: Diversity and Antipathy -- Presenter

Kirkpatrick, Chris (Graduate Center, CUNY)

[P4689] Saudi Arabia: Swords, Slavery, and Origins of ISIS -- Presenter

Kitlas, Peter (Princeton University)

[P4632] Courts, Texts, & Interpretations -- Presenter

Kivrak, Pelin (Yale University)

[P4589] Communicating Politics in the Middle East: Objects, Spaces and Voices in Political Narratives -- Presenter

Klasova, Pamela (Georgetown University)

[P4493] Literature and/or history? Analyzing literary elements and narrative strategies in Arab historical writing -- Presenter
[P4493] Literature and/or history? Analyzing literary elements and narrative strategies in Arab historical writing -- Organizer
[P4422] Theorizing Clarity and Style: The Development of Bayān through the Centuries -- Chair

Klein, Janet (The University of Akron)

[P4381] Reform, Violence and Revolutionary Organizations in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman East -- Discussant
[P4381] Reform, Violence and Revolutionary Organizations in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman East -- Chair

Kocamaner, Hikmet (Harvard University)

[P4643] Anthropology of Islam & the Family -- Presenter

Kocer, Suncem (Kadir Has University)

[P4647] Performance, Media & Public Spaces -- Presenter

Kocyigit, Omer (Leiden University)

[P4592] Ottoman Modernization Reconsidered: Complexities of the Transformation of Ottoman Scientific Thought -- Presenter

Koehler, Kevin (American University in Cairo)

[P4519] Fight and Exit in the Syrian Civil War -- Presenter

Koker, Huseyin Levent (New School for Social Research)

[S4719] The Crisis in Turkey -- Presenter

Komaroff, Linda (LA County Museum of Art)

[R4354] Doing Research in Iran: Strategies and Experiences -- Presenter

Kotchikian, Asbed (Bentley Univeristy)

[P4353] Traversing and Transgressing Boundaries in Armenian History -- Chair

Koura, Fatima (Independent Scholar)

[P4690] Women, Work, and Leadership -- Presenter

Kozma, Liat (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

[P4504] Provincializing the Core: Impact of Provincial History on Egyptian National History 1850s to 1920s -- Chair
[P4344] Shaping International Governance: The League of Nations and UN in the Middle East (1920-1985) -- Presenter

Krafft, Caroline (St. Catherine University)

[P4444] Did economic inequality drive the Arab spring? Quantitative approaches -- Presenter

Kraidy, Marwan M. (University of Pennsylvania)

[R4480] Media Studies in the Arab World -- Presenter

Krause, Peter (Boston College)

[P4362] The Causes and Consequences of Political Participation and Social Movements in the Middle East -- Organizer
[P4362] The Causes and Consequences of Political Participation and Social Movements in the Middle East -- Presenter

Kreitmeyr, Nadine (Middle East Technical University)

[P4621] Authoritarianism: Persistence and Resistance -- Presenter

Kudsieh, Suha (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

[P4359] From Arab-Russian to Arab-Soviet Cultural Encounters: Are There Continuities? -- Presenter

Kurt, Umit (Harvard University)

[P4424] New Issues, Perspectives and Sources in Armenian Studies -- Discussant
[P4424] New Issues, Perspectives and Sources in Armenian Studies -- Organizer
[P4381] Reform, Violence and Revolutionary Organizations in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman East -- Presenter
[P4381] Reform, Violence and Revolutionary Organizations in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman East -- Organizer

Kuruoglu, Guliz (UCLA)

[R4311] Teaching Turkish in the 21st Century: How to Develop a New Curriculum -- Presenter

Kurze, Arnaud (Montclair State University)

[P4584] Mapping Complexity with Digital Methods: Untangling Political Challenges in the Mediterranean Basin and Europe -- Organizer
[P4584] Mapping Complexity with Digital Methods: Untangling Political Challenges in the Mediterranean Basin and Europe -- Presenter