GRADUATE PAPERS

Karim Jamal Ali, "The Isma'ili Abu Hatim ar-Razi's View on the Etymology of Place Names and his Contributions to Arabic Lexicography," MESA 2002.

Karim Jamal Ali, "Insights into Shi'i Heresiography via Razi's Kitab al-Zina," MESA 2003.

Ahmed Alwishah, "Avicenna and the faculty of representation," Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Dialogue Among Civilizations, Binghamton University NY, October 2001.

Ahmed Alwishah, "Avicenna and Descartes on 'I exist,'" International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy," Fordham University Lincoln Center, NY, October 2003.

Ahmed Alwishah, Future papers: "Liar Paradox in Islamic philosophy," Moody Conference at UCLA in February 2004.

Russ Arnold, "Social and Ideological Factors Contributing to the Emergence of Fixed Prayer at Qumran." SBL National Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.

Russ Arnold, "As Though We Ourselves Experience the Exodus from Egypt: A Look at the Pesah/Matzot Festival Complex in Exodus 12-13." SBL Pacific Coast Regional Conference, Walnut Creek, CA, March 2003.

Russ Arnold, "Fixed Prayer at Qumran: Why does it Emerge?" SBL Pacific Coast Regional Conference, Claremont, CA, March 2002.

Russ Arnold, "Prayer as a Replacement for Sacrifice: A Reassessment," SBL Pacific Coast Regional Conference, Whittier, CA, March 2004.

Tamar Boyadjian, "The Morphological Comparison of Latin and Classical Armenian," UCLA Graduate Student Colloquium, February 2004.

Frances Cahill, "Pre- and Post-Nominal Deictics in the Middle Egyptian 'Tale of the Eloquent Peasant,'" International Conference: 31st Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL), Nashville, TN, April 2003.

Robert R. Cargill, "Palaeo-Hebrew Script as Language Ideology in the Numismatic Record of the Bar-Kokhba Rebellion," Society of Biblical Literature Pacific Coast Regional Conference, Whittier, CA, March 2004.

Moise Isaac, "Elite Emulation and Identity in Israelite State Formation: The Case of the Bit-Hilani Palaces," American Schools of Oriental Research-Regional Meeting, Whittier College, CA, March 2004.

Justin Cale Johnson, "Detransitivization in Sumerian," co-authored with Wakaha Mori, 42nd Sumerology Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 2001.

Justin Cale Johnson, "Complex Graphemes in the Proto-cuneiform Corpus and the Problem of Phonological Reconstruction," 48e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Leiden, July 2, 2002.

Justin Cale Johnson, "The Invention of Writing in Mesopotamia," Andrews University, October 21, 2002.

Justin Cale Johnson, "Sound/Image: The Multimodal Poetic Structure of Bird and Fish," American Oriental Society, Nashville, April 4, 2003.

Justin Cale Johnson, "To Bevel or Not to Bevel-rim Bowl: Manufacture and Craft Organization," co-authored with Yoko Nishimura, UCLA, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, May 7, 2003.

Justin Cale Johnson, "Decomposing Lexical Aspect in Sumerian," American Oriental Society, San Diego, March 2004.

Justin Cale Johnson, Title TBA (on pragmatics in Sumerian), Methodological Approaches to the Analysis of Dead Languages: Semantics and Pragmatics of Verbal Clauses, Basel, April 2004.

Fred Mabie, "Proposed Regional Dialects in Biblical Hebrew," presented at Evangelical Theological Society Far West Regional Meeting, March 2000.

Fred Mabie, "The Maskil at Qumran: Who Does He Think He Is?" Society of Biblical Literature, Pacific, Coast Region, March 2002.

Fred Mabie, "Another Stab at Relating the Mesha Stele to 2 Kings 3," Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting (Toronto), November 2002.

Fred Mabie, "Scribal Syntactical Markers in the Moabite Stone," Society of Biblical Literature National Meeting (Toronto), November 2002.

Fred Mabie, "Scribal Auxiliary Marks in the Ugaritic Corpus," Society of Biblical Literature National Meeting (Atlanta), November 2003.

Fred Mabie, "Theological Synthesis and Foreshadowing: Joshua 1:1-9," Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting (Atlanta), November 2003.

Kerry Muhlestein, "Death by Water: The Use of Water in Ancient Egypt's Treatment of Enemies and Juridical Process," First International Conference for Young Egyptologists: Water in Ancient Egypt: Life, Regeneration, Incantation, and Medical Prescription, Chianciano Terme, Italy, October, 2003.

Kerry Muhlestein, "An Origin of Foreign Domination: Pre-Hyksos Avaris," Invited lecture presented to the faculty of the History Department at Brigham Young University, March 2003.

Kerry Muhlestein, "Egyptian Exchange With the Levant: the International Setting for Facsimile Number Three," World of Abraham Conference held by the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts at Brigham Young University, March 2002.

Kerry Muhlestein, "Pharaoh Undone: Plagues and the Mystique of Ma'at," Invited Lecture, presented at Student and Faculty Forum, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, February 2002.

Kerry Muhlestein, "Magic and Mudbrick: Apotropaic Architecture in Ancient Egypt," UCLA's Wepwawet Westwood Conference, June 2002.

Kerry Muhlestein, "The Plagues, Exodus, and Egyptian Kingship," Pacific Regional Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, March 2001. This paper was awarded the prize for best student essay.

Kerry Muhlestein, "Criticism of the King: Another Layer in the Shipwrecked Sailor." ARCE [American Research Center in Egypt] Conference, April 2001.

Kerry Muhlestein, "Death by Water: The Role of Water in Ancient Egypt's Treatment of Enemies and Juridical Process," in L'Acqua Nell'antico Egitto: Vita, Rigenerazione, Incantesimo, Medicamento, Alessia Amenta, Michela Luiselli, and Maria Novella Sordi, eds., (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2004) - scheduled for release in April, 2004.

Roger Nam, "When Bad Laws Happen to Good Kings: The Fiscal Impact of Debt Manumission in Deuteronomy 15, 1-11," Pacific Coast Regional Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, Davis, CA, March 2003.

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, "Aesthetics of Love in Baghli's 'Abhar al-'Ashiqin," Middle East Studies Association of North America Conference, Chicago, 1998.

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, "Visionary Autobiography and the Construct of Self in R,zbihan Baghli’s Kashf al Asrar," Middle East Studies Association of North America Conference, San Francisco, 2001.

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, "Kashf al-Asrar: a Medieval Autobiography in Perspective," University of California at Santa Barbara's Middle East Studies Conference, 2002.

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, "Jewels of contemporary Persian Poetry," co-organized and chaired this community program at UCLA James Bridges Theatre, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television, 2002.

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, "'Ayn al-Qudat Hamadhani: Faith and Heresy," Middle East Studies Association of North America Conference, Washington D.C., 2002.

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, "A Medieval Persian Apologia," Center for Middle East Studies University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002.

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, "Iranian Women and Political Representation," organized and chaired this panel at UCSB's Fifth Annual Middle East Studies Regional Conference, Santa Barbara, 2003.

Jeongyeon Park, “Samson and the Foxes: Ancient Near Eastern Parallels and their implications,” SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 2004

Jeongyeon Park, “Textual and Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Term Nagid,” SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Nov.2004

Matthew Suriano, "The Fall of the House of Eli: Inner-Biblical Discourse and 1 Sam 2:27-36," Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research Whittier College, March 21, 2004.

Matthew Suriano, "'And he slept with his fathers:' A Re-interpretation of the Biblical Idiom for Death and Burial," The 214th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Session: Ancient Near East VII: Hittite and Northwest Semitic Language, Literature, and History, San Diego, March 15, 2004.

Dalia Yasharpour, "Elisha ben Shemuel's Poetic Work, Shahzadeh va Sufi" Misgav Yerushalayim's Sixth International Congress, June 2000.