<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Thu 20 Nov 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 20 Nov 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:<<a href="mailto:kmiller3@email.arizona.edu">kmiller3@email.arizona.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Call for Papers<br>The Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Association of the University<br>of Arizona is pleased to announce its 9th annual Southwest Graduate Conference<br>in Middle Eastern Studies in cooperative with the University of Arizona<br>Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at<br>the University of Arizona. This year's theme is Cross-Disciplinary<br>Perspectives in Middle Eastern Studies.<br><br>This conference features student presenters at both the M.A. and Ph.D. level and<br>provides a friendly forum to practice submitting a proposal and presenting a<br>conference paper. It also allows graduate students to make connections with<br>specialists in the field and to receive constructive feedback from faculty<br>commentators on work-in-progress. Each year a keynote speaker is invited to<br>speak on an aspect of his or her work in an event open to the public.<br><br><br>This event offers an opportunity for up-and-coming scholars with similar<br>interests to network and is also an ideal form for encouraging collaboration<br>across disciplines and specializations. For this reason we encourage paper<br>submissions not only from students studying within Middle Eastern Studies<br>departments but also from associated disciplines such as anthropology, history,<br>political science, linguistics, comparative literature etc. Papers should<br>address topics on within the geographical area of Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan,<br>Pakistan, the Arab World, and other areas such as Spain and Southeastern Europe<br>that were parts of Middle Eastern empires or civilizations and be the author?s<br>original, unpublished work.<br><br><br>Selected papers will be compiled and published in the conference journal Zaytoon<br>and will be available after the conference.<br><br>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br><br>Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Hebrew linguistics<br>International and domestic politics<br>Media and music studies<br>Urban planning and politics of space<br>Technology, health, and medicine<br>Religious studies<br>Literary analysis<br>Gender studies<br>Ethnicity and nationalism<br>Colonialism and post-colonial theory<br>Art and architecture of the Islamic world<br>Historical analysis<br>Conflict studies<br><br>Submission Instructions:<br><br>Please fill out and submit the Presenter Submission Form and paper abstract<br>electronically if possible. If attached seperately, abstracts should be no more<br>than 150 words, typed, and in Word format. The abstract should have your<br>paper?s title but NOT your name as the review process is blind. Submitted<br>paper should not exceed 20 pages double-spaced and presentation should not<br>exceed 15 minutes. Please direct submissions and/or questions to Conference<br>Co-Chairs Shauna Little and Keri Miller at <a href="mailto:uamena@gmail.com">uamena@gmail.com</a>.<br><br>Submission Deadline:<br><br>For priority consideration for the 2009 conference, submissions must be made by<br>5pm MST on December 1st, 2008. After this date, submissions will be accepted on<br>a rolling acceptance basis until all spots are filled with no submissions<br>accepted after January 15th, 2009. Those individuals who have submitted by the<br>Dec. 1st deadline will be notified of their acceptance by January 15th, 2009.<br>Please send submissions and/or questions to Conference Co-Chairs Shauna Little<br>and Keri Miller at <a href="mailto:uamena@gmail.com">uamena@gmail.com</a>.<br><br>Submission Materials:<br><br>Presenter Submission Form [Excel document]<br>Call for Papers [Word document]<br>(For links to these documents please go to <a href="http://www.uamena.org/">www.uamena.org</a>)<br><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 20 Nov 2008</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>