The Bodman Memorial Lecture Series
The Bodman Memorial Lecture Series began in 2012 to honor the memory of Professor Herb Bodman, a founding member and first elected president of SERMEISS. The lectures are presented at Fall meetings.
Spring 2012
Dr. Curtis Ryan
Appalacian State University
"Regional Priorities after the Arab Spring from Pan-Arabism to the New Arab Cold War
Spring 2013
Dr. Michael Herb
Georgia State University
"Stumbling Toward Constitutional Monarchy in Kuwait"
Spring 2014
Dr. Sheila Carapico
University of Richmond
"Political Aid and Arab Activism: Democracy, Promotion, Justice, and Representation"
Spring 2015
Dr. Caroline Williams
College of William and Mary
"The Orientalist Paintings of John Frederick Lewis: Further Reflections on Reality"
Fall 2015
Dr. John Alden Williams
College of William and Mary
"Islamic Studies: A View of the Past and Present"
Spring 2016
Dr. Vincent Cornell
Emory University
"The Terrible Logic of Natural Law: The Cosmic Shari'a in the Rasa'il of the Brethern of Purity and Sayyid Qutb's Ma'alim fi al-Tariq"
Fall 2018
Dr. Michaelle Browers
Wake Forest University
"Gramsci in Arabic: The Organic Intellectuals of Socialist Lebanon"
Spring 2020
Dr. Devin Stewart
Emory University
“Irreverence and the Fatwas of Taqi al-Dīn al-Subkī (d. 756/1355): Islamic Law and Popular Culture in Late Medieval Syria and Egypt.”
Fall 2022
Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
“Women’s Rights Movements in Iran: Past and Present”