Minutes, November 2012

Middle East Sociology Working Group
Minutes

Informal Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 18, 2012.

For the second time this year, we met for lunch at the Little India Restaurant in Denver, Colorado. Attendance was small enough to allow most of us to engage in a single conversation, much of which revolved around the political and ethical implications of government funding for sociological research. Participants also discussed how to promote efforts by the Sociology of Islam group to form a section of the American Sociological Association on the Middle East and Muslim Societies.

Minutes taken by Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.