{"id":25314,"date":"2016-11-03T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=25314"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:55:13","slug":"pardee-school-students-faculty-to-present-at-mesa-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/11\/03\/pardee-school-students-faculty-to-present-at-mesa-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee School Students, Faculty to Present at MESA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/Boston-\u201916-FINAL1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/Boston-\u201916-FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/Boston-\u201916-FINAL-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Boston \u201916 FINAL\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-25316 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/Boston-\u201916-FINAL-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/Boston-\u201916-FINAL.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Several students and faculty members from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies will present at the upcoming Middle East Studies Association Conference being held in Boston from November 17-21, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Middle East and North Africa Studies and International Relations major Alyssa Scheiner and International Relations and Economics major Adam Syed\u00a0are among just 17 undergraduates nationwide invited to present their\u00a0research at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Scheiner and Syed will participate\u00a0in a workshop that is meant to hone their research skills by focusing on placing their work in academic literature, developing research methods, and exposing students to data, archives, and other primary sources in Middle East studies. Following the workshop, the students will present their research in a public poster session.<\/p>\n<p><span>Scheiner will be presenting on &#8220;The Consequences of Demographic Aid Distribution: The Case of Syrian Refugees,&#8221; while Syed will be presenting on &#8220;Understanding Social Media as a Text: A Case Study in Amman, Jordan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several Pardee School faculty members will also be presenting at the conference including\u00a0<span>Director of Middle East and North Africa Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/margaret-litvin\/\">Margaret Litvin<\/a>, Assistant Professor of International Relations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/noora-lori\/\">Noora Lori<\/a>, Professor of International Relations and Anthropology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/augustus-richard-norton\/\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>,\u00a0Senior Lecturer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/wilfrid-rollman\/\">Wilfrid J. Rollman<\/a>\u00a0and Lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jeffrey-karam\/\">Jeffrey Karam<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardee School students and faculty members will present at the upcoming Middle East Studies Association Conference being held in Boston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414,8416],"tags":[9287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25314"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25439,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25314\/revisions\/25439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}