Re-Posted from MLA Members for Justice in Palestine: MLA 2017 Call for Papers, Panels and Palestine Looking for MLA 2017 panels to submit Palestine-related papers? Below is a selection of CFPs on topics that might include papers related to Palestine, BDS, settler colonialism, apartheid, dispossession, transnational justice, orientalism, etc. Deadlines for submission of paper abstracts are…
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Please take note: these CFPs were arranged by the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the MLA for the 2017 convention. Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American Studies. Interrogating concepts of cosmopolitanism, exile, globality through the figure of the Arab refugee across historical/epistemic/disciplinary/geographical boundaries. 250-word abstracts and bios by 15 March to Pauline Homsi Vinson at…
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Call for Proposals: Islam of the Global West A New Book Series by Bloomsbury Press Islam of the Global West is a pioneering series that examines Islamic beliefs, practices, discourses, communities, and instituions that have emerged from ‘the Global West.’ The geographical and intellectual framing of the Global West reflects both the role played by…
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Call for Abstracts After the Uprisings: Political, Economic, and Social Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa 31 May 2016 – Edinburgh Deadline for submissions: 29 February 2016 The Call For Papers is available to view here: http://www.arabtrans.eu/edinburgh-conference-2016/ Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) to p01kv4@abdn.ac.uk. Important Dates Paper titles and abstracts…
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AASA Roundtable proposal for MESA 2016 Boston, MA, Nov. 17-20. Roundtable Title: “US Presidential Elections: Assessing Arab American Positionalities” As has been the case for the previous 3 or 4 Presidential election cycles, Arabs, Muslims, and other Middle Eastern communities living in the U.S. have been the focus of debate questions, inflammatory rhetoric, and national…
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Call for Papers for The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies invites feminist scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-specific manuscripts on any topic related to the theme of The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins. Manuscripts may address…
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Call for Papers, March 1, 2016 Late Identity: Outlasting the premises of identity in critical ethnic studies For better or worse, identity has been a dominant preoccupation in ethnic studies, and persists in critical ethnic studies. However, identity is often used in ways that present significant theoretical, methodological, and political problems which – if unaddressed –…
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The Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University announces a call for papers for our upcoming symposium Listening In: Sonic Interventions in the Middle East and North Africa May 13, 2016 At the historic five-year mark of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa region, this interdisciplinary symposium tackles the intersections of culture, politics,…
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The Palestinian American Research Center is pleased to announce this year’s fellowship competitions, which offer excellent opportunities for scholars to do research on Palestine and for professors not familiar with Palestine to make their first visit there. Please see the detailed information and links to our website below. http://parc-us-pal.org Call for Applications PARC is pleased…
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We welcome proposals that examine translations of books and exchange of knowledge between the Middle East and Russia in the pre-modern period: 131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016 Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)” Description: this special panel examines broad cultural interaction between pre-modern Russia and the Middle East in…
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