Past Conferences

The Arab American Studies Association generally sponsors its own triennial conference and organizes sessions at the American Studies Association and the Middle East Studies Association every other year. The organization has also supported various special sessions and meetings, as outlined below in chronological order.

    AASA Conferences

  • 2024 AASA Conference

    AASA 2024, April 12 – 14, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI

    Arab American Studies Association 2024 Conference: Critical Futures in Arab American Studies

    2022 AASA Conference

    Arab American Studies Association 2020/2022.0 Conference: The Politics of Refusal and Impossibility in Arab American Studies

    The 3rd triennial Arab American Studies Association conference.

    2020 AASA Conference

    Due to the impacts of COVID-19 on our communities, we cancelled the conference originally scheduled for April 3-5, 2020.

    This conference will be rescheduled to a later date.

    2017 AASA Conference

    Waypoints and Watersheds: Arab American Activism and Memories, A Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War

    Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
    24-26 March 2017

    2014 The AASA Inaugural Conference

    Beyond the Label: Arab American Faces, Places, and Traces

    Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan
    April 4-6, 2014

    American Studies Association

  • 2017 AASA at ASA

    Beginning in 2017, AASA planned to hold its annual meeting at the American Studies Association in alternating years.

    Nov 9-11, 2017

    MESA

  • 2016 MESA

    Thematic Conversation: Global Arab America: Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents (Friday, 11/18/16 3:45pm)

    Organized by Suad Joseph and Pauline Homsi Vinson
    Chair: Pauline Homsi Vinson
    Participants: Sarah Gualtieri, Carol Fadda, Bassam Haddad, and Lisa Hajjar