Invited Speakers
- Lynn Swartz-Dodd: Monuments of Resistance: Gurgam and the Assyrian Conquest
- Marian Feldman: Style as Material Memory in Early Iron Age Syria
- Beshara Doumani:Producing Memory and Identity one case at a time: The Islamic Law Court and the Ottoman Social Imaginaries
- Steven Weitzman: Of Mimic Jews and Jewish Mimics in Antiquity
- Jacco Dieleman: Egyptian Burial and elite self-presentation in Ptolemaic Egypt
- Elizabeth Minor: Inlays and Identities in Nubian Burials of the Classic Kerma Period
- Daniel Boyarin:Nostalgia for Christianity: Jesus in the Talmud
- Afshin Marashi: Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
- Dale Loepp: Creating Social Imaginaries through Pilgramage: Solomon, Bourdieu and the Habitus
- Samad Alavi: To Die for the People: The Imagined Masses in the Poetry of Ahmad Shamlou
- Jerrold Cooper: Remembering the Sumerians