Middle East Centre Antonian Conference (Gaudy) 2007

2007 marks the Middle East Centre's fiftieth anniversary. St Antony's celebrated this milestone with a Gaudy, held in the College on the weekend of 29 June - 1 July 2007. This event was open to all Antonians, past and present. We were delighted to have Hanan Ashrawi (Honorary Fellow of St Antony's) as the keynote speaker. The full programme is below.

Some of the papers given at the Gaudy can be accessed by clicking on the speaker's name. Some are word documents and some are recorded in mp3 format. If you cannot open the mp3 files, click this link for information on obtaining a Real Audio compatible player.

A selection of photographs of the Gaudy is also available.

There was an associated fundraising drive from Antonians to support Middle Eastern Studies. Please click through for more details.

The Programme

Friday 29 June

2pm onwards Open House in the Middle East Centre and an Exhibition in the MEC Archive from 2 - 4pm

5pm - Keynote Lecture in the Nissan Lecture Theatre. The speaker was Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and President of MIFTAH.

Saturday 30 June

9am - Plenary Session in the Nissan Lecture Theatre: The Hourani Legacy (Butros Abu Manneh - the recording of the speech follows Derek Hopwood's introduction, Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Amikam Nachmani, Derek Hopwood - Chair)

11.15am - Concurrent panels: Regional Studies

Iran (Fariba Adelkhan, Shahla Haeri, Mohamad Tavakoli, Homa Katouzian - Chair) - Middle East Centre
Israel (Kais Firro, Shany Payes, Gabi Piterberg, Roger Owen - Chair) - Nissan Lecture Theatre
North Africa (Angel Foster, Avi Spiegel, Jean-Claude Vatin, Michael Willis - Chair) - Fellows' Dining Room
Turkey (David Logan, Nuray Mert, Bahri Yilmaz, Celia Kerslake - Chair) - Dahrendorf Room

2pm - Concurrent Panels: Topical Studies

Culture (Margot Badran, Marilyn Booth, James Onley, Robin Ostle, Walter Armbrust - Chair) - Dahrendorf Room
Islam (Ahmed Al-Shahi, Bernard Haykel, Andrea Nusse, Ronald Nettler - Chair) - Nissan Lecture Theatre
Oil (Raad Alkadiri, Abdullah Al-Nibari, Kevin Rosser, Robert Mabro - Chair) - Fellows Dining Room

4pm - Plenary Session: "Bush and Blair in the Middle East: policies and legacies" (Thomas Friedman, Patrick Seale, Eugene Rogan - Chair) - Nissan Lecture Theatre

Sunday 1 July

9am - Plenary Session: The Situation in Iraq (Ali Allawi - part 1 and part 2, Raad Alkadiri, Joseph Sassoon, Peter Sluglett - audio and text, Foulath Hadid - Chair) - Nissan Lecture Theatre

Coffee in the Hilda Besse Building

11.15am - Plenary Session: The Situation in Israel and Palestine (Ahmad Khalidi, Rashid Khalidi, Ilan Papp�, Avi Shlaim)