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Two CFPs for MLA: Global Arab Texts and their Publics (due March 13, 2015) & Politics of Solidarities and Cross Racial Alliances (due March 15, 2015)

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016) Global Arab Texts and their Publics Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab émigré/exiled/refugee writers and their publics redefine the global? Role of gender, religion, language, literary economies. 250-word abstracts, bios…
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Travel Grants for Research at the Arab American National Museum

Call for Proposals Now Open for 2nd Annual Travel Grant 2015 Evelyn Abdalah Menconi Travel Grant Support for researchers to visit and use the collections at the Arab American National Museum’s Russell J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center The Russell J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center at the Arab American National Museum is accepting applications…
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CFP: Arab American Studies Roundtable at MESA 2016

This is a call to the interested for talking about the state of Arab American activism and advocacy. Please keep in mind the approaching deadline on Feb 12. Roundtable Recent scholarship on Arab/Arab American activism, in addition to undocumented vast experiences of immigrant activists, established the roots and span of collective advocacy by the Syrian and…
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CFP: “The Critical Turn: Historical & Contemporary Formations in Ethnic Studies” at Cal Poly Pomona (due Jan 30, 2015)

“The Critical Turn: Historical and Contemporary Formations in Ethnic Studies” Friday, April 10, 2015 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona As the final installation of a two-year long program series, “The World in Motion,” The Critical Turn: Historical and Contemporary Formations in Ethnic Studies will examine how both the local and global has reshaped the re/production…
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CFP for MESA: “Who’s Arab? Where’s America?: Interrogating ‘Arab American.'” (due Jan 30, 2015)

CFP: Who’s Arab? Where’s America?: Interrogating “Arab American” Middle East Studies Association, November 21-24, 2015, Denver The boundaries of Arab American studies have always been fluid. As a relatively young field of inquiry, researchers and scholars from a variety of backgrounds and approaches have been welcomed into the discipline. Sometimes the scholarship has included work…
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Call for MLA Panel Proposals: Global Arab and Arab American Forum (due Feb 5, 2015)

Call for Panel Proposals The Executive Committee of the Global Arab and Arab American Forum welcomes proposals for panels that we could sponsor at the 2016 MLA convention in Austin, TX. We welcome ideas for panel topics related to the forum’s focus on cultural and literary production by global Arab and Arab American writers, artists,…
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CFP: “Arabs and Arab Americans” Panel for American Sociological Association Annual Meeting

CFP Submitted by: Kristine J. Ajrouch, PhD Professor of Sociology Eastern Michigan University Dear Colleagues, I write to invite your submission to the American Sociological Association’s 110th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois on August 22-25, 2015. I am chairing this year’s regular Session on “Arabs and Arab Americans.” This session is sponsored by ASA only…
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CFP: Arab Culture in the U.S. at SWPACA 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS for the Area, Arab Culture in the U.S., at the 36th Annual Conference of the Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association Conference Theme Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture February 11-14, 2015 Albuquerque, New Mexico (http://www.southwestpca.org) Hyatt Regency Hotel (http://goo.gl/gTvvVP) Extended Deadline for Proposal Submission: November 15, 2014…
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PARC Grant Competitions for 2015

Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) PARC provides a number of annual opportunities for doctoral and post-doctoral candidates to engage more deeply in research on Palestinian issues.  While our grant from NEH/FPIRI funds research specifically in the Humanities, our other research fellowships have no restrictions on the field of study. Both are open to US citizens, and the…
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CFP: DIWAN6

Call for Proposals DIWAN6: A Forum for the Arts Overview The sixth biennial convening of DIWAN: A Forum for the Arts will be held at the Arab American National Museum (AANM), on May 7-9, 2015, in Dearborn, Michigan. The conference will coincide with the launch of the Museum’s 10th anniversary programming year, as well as…
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