3.45 pm – Welcome by Timothy Mitchell, Chair, MESAAS Opening remarks by Hamid Dabashi, Professor, MESAAS

4.00 pm – Keynote lecture: Islam Without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought Ahmad Dallal (American University in Beirut)

5.00 pm Roundtable Moderator: Marwa Elshakry (Columbia University)

“Condemning Alchemy in Byzantium and the Islamic World” Alexandre Roberts (Columbia University)

“Nasir al-Din Tusi and the Scientifc Exchange in the Period of Mongol Expansion in West Asia” Hadi Jorati (Ohio State University)

“Formation of music theory and translation of musical concepts in medieval Baghdad” Mohammad Sadegh Ansari (Columbia University)

Title TBA Wadad Kadi (University of Chicago)

6.30 pm Reception (to RSVP, please email: mesaasretirement@gmail.com.)