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<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">CFP Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">17 Oct 2013</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nancy Spleth Linthicum <<a href="mailto:nslint@umich.edu" target="_blank">nslint@umich.edu</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">CFP Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear colleagues of Arabic literature,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Prof. Amr Kamal and I are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) and welcome paper proposals (deadline Nov. 1) for our topic: Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World. Please find below a description of the seminar (link here: </span><a href="http://acla.org/acla2014/shifting-centers-of-cultural-capital-in-the-arab-world/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://acla.org/acla2014/<u></u>shifting-centers-of-cultural-<u></u>capital-in-the-arab-world/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">). Interested participants should submit their paper proposals through ACLA's website (</span><a href="http://acla.org/acla2014/propose-a-paper/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://acla.org/acla2014/<u></u>propose-a-paper/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) and specify this seminar.</span><div>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*Seminar Organizer(s):*</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Amr Kamal (The City College of New York), Nancy Linthicum</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The well-known Arab adage "Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Baghdad reads" has gradually lost its currency in recent years as other Arab cities both further east and west of this triangle (Doha, Abu Dhabi, Casablanca, Tunis, to name a few) have actively competed to refashion themselves as patrons and vibrant centers of cultural production. As a result, several cities have created new relations with and new visions of national, regional, and pan-Arab culture, especially with the economic success of the Gulf. Some have achieved this through lavish funding of museums, literary prizes, book fairs, and programs at U.S. universities, control over wide-reaching satellite channels, and several other means. Others have gained cultural capital through less coordinated efforts, notably through the rapid, extensive spread of popular music, poetry, blogs, and street art motifs of the Arab Spring from city to city, country to country. Additionally, within these various cultural capitals, individual actors have engaged in debates with dominant ideologies, aesthetics, and institutions, as they lay claim to their own cultural capital.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This seminar examines how Arab cultural centers are recreated and contested from various locations (Damascus, Cairo, Dubai, Paris, Montreal, New York) and how individuals take part in these negotiations. It considers the movement of cultural capital among and within Arab cities as different actors -- writers, critics, state ministries, artists, museums, publishers, artist unions -- have vied for influence, forged new alliances, and adapted to new technologies and political realities.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*SEMINAR KEYWORDS*: Arab cities, cultural capital, Gulf, Maghreb, Mashriq, Mediterranean, Arab Spring, 20th century, literature, new media</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nancy Linthicum</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-- </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nancy Linthicum</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Doctoral Candidate, Arabic Language and Literature</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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