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The Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia (MEICON-BC) was founded in 2008 as a collaborative project of 尤物视频, the University of Victoria, and the University of British Columbia with the participation of other British Columbian universities and colleges. Its purpose is to provide an organizational basis for communication and cooperation among all British Columbian academics interested in the study of the Middle East and Muslim societies and cultures. They host an annual student conference (typically held in March of each year), where students are invited to present their papers and receive feedback and support in a lively and nurturing environment.

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Thank you to everyone who attended MEICON 2025!

Take a look at all of the programming we hosted below.

Complete Schedule of Events and Panels from Friday, 14 March to Monday, 17 March 2025

Friday, 14 March - DAY ONE: SFU HARBOUR CENTRE - FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS

Registration; 9 - 9:30 am - Room 2065

Opening Remarks: Dr. Adel Iskandar; 9:30 - 10:00 am - Room 2270

Student Panel 1: Intra-Continental Entanglements in Asia; 10:05 - 11:15 am - Room 2270

Beyond the Nation State: Transnational Muslim Identities Across the Middle East and China - Zhe Xi (David) Tu (尤物视频)

Between Soviet and Capitalist Modernity: Contested Meanings of Urban Space in Dushanbe - Tahmina Inoyatova (尤物视频)

China and the Graveyard of Empires: Understanding Chinese Political and Economic Interests in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan - Adam Robert Ivanovic (尤物视频)

Discussant: Dr. Janice Jeong (尤物视频)

Student Panel 2: Continuity and Rupture after the Iranian Revolution; 11:25 - 12:40 pm - Room 2270

Iranian Left and the Women's Issue in the 1979 Revolution - Aso Javaheri (尤物视频)

Memory regimes and conflicting social imaginaries in Iran: Afterlives of a Revolution - Nastaran Saremy (尤物视频)

On the Iranian Teachers鈥 Movement - Hossein Rahmati (University of Victoria)

Discussant: Dr. Nazanin Shahrokni (尤物视频)

Break; 12:40 - 1:25 pm - Room 2065

Student Panel 3: Ottoman Modernities in the Long Nineteenth Century; 1:30 - 2:40 pm - Room 2270

Civilizationism: Prescribing Modernity and Reform - Ismail Noyan (尤物视频)

American Missionary Activity in the Ottoman East: Negotiations and Interactions in a Transnational Context, 1880鈥1920 - Hamid Incidelen (尤物视频)

The Egyptian Spectacle: Understanding Egypt鈥檚 Role at the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Morgan Jennings (尤物视频)

Discussant: Dr. Spyros Sofos (尤物视频)

Student Panel 4: Instruments of Struggle for Palestine; 2:50 - 4:00 pm - Room 2270

The Insidious Friendly Foe: The UN鈥檚 Role in Materializing the Zionist Imagined Geography - Maisaloon Al-Ashkar (University of British Columbia)

Red-taped into silence: weaponized bureaucracy in university-Gaza protest encampment interactions - Sarah Kamal (University of British Columbia)

History to the Tune of Rocket Fire: Pedagogy and Defiance in Palestinian Resistance Music - Bassam Abun Nadi (尤物视频)

Discussant: Kylie Broderick (UNC Chapel Hill)

Student Panel 5: Migration, Diaspora, and Belonging Across the Indo-Pacific; 4:10 - 5:20 pm - Room 2270

From Homelands to Hostlands: Exploring Middle Eastern Diasporic Belonging on Coast Salish Lands - Marianne El-Mikati (University of British Columbia)

Rohingya Women's Transnational Exposure to Multiple Vulnerabilities in Malaysia: Assessing Imposed Precariousness in Domestic and Public Spheres - Tanjila Afrin Sejuty (尤物视频)

Expectations and Actual Experiences of Iranian Immigrants in Canada - Yaser Riki (University of Victoria)

Discussant: Dr. Maral Aguilera-Moradipour (尤物视频)

Keynote Lecture: Dr. Esmat Elhalaby; 5:30 - 7 pm - Room 1400 Segal Centre

"Third World Study: Empire and the Decolonisation of Knowledge鈥

Iftar/Dinner; 7:15 pm - Room 1400 Segal Rooms

Saturday, 15 March - DAY TWO: SFU HARBOUR CENTRE - SEVENTH FLOOR

Registration; 9:30 - 10:00 am - Room 7400

Student Panel 6: Public Institutions, Power, and Narrative Communication; 10:05 - 11:15 - Room 7000

The Rohingya Crisis and the Representation of the Refugees: Discourse Analysis Relating to Public Communication by Major Humanitarian Organizations Working with/for Them - Firoz Mahmud (尤物视频)

Cinematic Mobilization: The Role of Sacred Defense Cinema in Shaping Iran鈥檚 Regional Strategy - Mehmood Ali Khan (Philipps-Universit盲t Marburg)

Assad falls, Syrians rise: How can the national healing process over crimes of politicide inform studies on desectarianization? - Mariam Al Barazi (UBC Okanagan)

Discussant: Dr. Daniel Ahadi (尤物视频)

Student Panel 7: Intercultural Currents and Islamic Thought; 11:20 - 12:40 - Room 7000

What Lies at the End of Formulas? Repetition and Reception in Islamic New Media Art - M茅lika S. Hashemi (University of Waterloo) and Yasmeen Nematt Alla (Wayne State University)

The Manifestation of Imaginal Aesthetics in Cinema: A Mystical Perception - Niusha Hatefinia (尤物视频)

Mystical Parallels: Sufism, Surrealism, and Influence on Modern Design History (1924 鈥 Present) - Shafira Rezkita Vidyamaharani (尤物视频)

Mapping the idea of the dignity of humankind from the Quran to twelfth century Muslim thought and its impact on the European Renaissance - Sikeena Karmali Ahmed (Warburg Institute)

Discussant: Dr. Laura Marks (尤物视频)

Break; 12:40 - 1:25 - Room 7400

Book talk with Shahrzad Mojab: Kurdish Women Through History; 1:30 - 3 pm - Room 7000

Discussant: Nastaran Saremy (尤物视频)

Moderator: Aso Javaheri (尤物视频)

Student Panel 8: Anti-Colonial Subjectivities; 3:10 - 4:20 - Room 7000

Racial Invention at the Terrifying Frontiers: On Black/Indigenous/Palestinian Transgressions - Devon Clifton (Brown University) and Sherena Razek (Brown University)

Gendered Orientalism and Israeli Media: Representations of Palestinian and Israeli women - Hafsa Maqsood (University of Calgary)

Dialogue between Negro-African Cultures and Islam: The role of religious syncretism in anti-colonial resistance; Black Islam against racism - Mamadou Ba (尤物视频)

Discussant: Dr. Adel Iskandar (尤物视频)

Combating Academic Unfreedom & State Repression: SFPIRG x Embark Sustainability Discussion Panel; 4:30 - 6 pm - Room 7000

Speakers: Sara Kishawi (Vancouver Island University), Balqees Jama (尤物视频), and Dr. Zeyad el Nabolsy (York University)

Moderators: Marie Haddad (Embark Sustainability) and No毛ll Cousins (SFPIRG)

Monday, 17 March - LAST DAY: SFU HARBOUR CENTRE - SEVENTH FLOOR

Echoes of Defiance - A Lecture by Dr. Shahrzad Mojab; 6 pm - 8 pm - Room 7000