CFP: Global Arab and Arab American Forum (MLA)

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 phvinson@gmail.com

Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts. Regional, transnational, cross-border, multilingual Arab constructions of selfhood. Please submit 250 word abstracts and bios by March 20th to Pauline Homsi Vinson phvinson@gmail.com and Georgia Kathryn Johnston johnstgk@slu.edu