January 28-30, 2010

1/28 (8:30-12:30) Dean’s Conference Room, GEB 3.312
1/28 (12:30-6:00) Meyerson Conference Room, WCH 4.132
1/29-30 (8:30-6:00) Meyerson Conference Room, WCH 4.132

Participants:
• Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Chair (History, Loughborough University, UK)
• Gail Minault (History, University of Texas, Austin, TX)
• Hulya Adak (Cultural Studies, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)
• Sonia Nishat Amin (History, Dhaka University, Bangladesh)
• Kathryn Babayan (History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
• Margot Badran (Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
• Marilyn Booth (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
• Afshan Bukhari (Art History, Suffolk University, Boston, MA)
• Miriam Cooke (Arabic Literature and Culture, Duke University, Durham, NC)
• Nawar al-Hasan Golley (Arabic and Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah)
• Ruby Lal (Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)
• Anshu Malhotra (History, Delhi University, Delhi, India)
• Ellen McLarney (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC)
• Roberta Micallef (Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures, Boston University, Boston, MA)
• Farzaneh Milani (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)
• Mildred Mortimer (French and Italian, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
• Sylvia Vatuk (Anthropology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL)

This workshop is the first of three to be held by an international network of scholars working on women’s autobiographies
in Muslim societies. Dr. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley of Loughborough University, the Chair of the network, has
received a grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of the UK, and the co-operation of local sponsors, to hold this
series of workshops. The first will convene at the University of Texas in austin, January 28-30, 2010, with papers to be
given by members of the network. Subsequent workshops will be held at the India International Centre in New Delhi in
late 2010, and at the University of Sharjah, UAE, in late 2011. It is a great honor for the South Asia Institute of the
University of Texas to co-sponsor and host this inaugural gathering, which will be of interest to scholars of South Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies, Women and gender Studies, and Comparative Literature.