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<font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">I would like to draw your attention to a two-day conference (May 19-20, 2020) at the University of Manchester on the topic of Jewish-Muslim relations. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on language.
The deadline to submit proposals is December 1, 2019. Please see below (and attachments) for the call for papers:</span></font><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="6"><b><font size="3" color="#202020">Keynote Speakers</font><font size="3" color="#202020"><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span></font><font size="3" color="#202020"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Najwa al-Qattan
(Loyola Marymount University), Seth Anziska (University College London), Yulia Egorova (Durham University), and Brian Klug (Oxford University)</span></font></b></font></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; margin: 14pt 0px 24px;"><font color="#202020"><font size="3"><b>Call for Papers</b></font><font size="3"><b><br>
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</b></font><font size="3"><i>Beyond ‘Jewish-Muslim Relations’ </i></font><font size="3">invites scholars of Jewish and Muslim histories, cultures, politics, theologies and peoples to share comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to the
study of these topics as they relate to and come into contact with one another. Despite many theological and cultural similarities and frequent social proximity between Jews and Muslims, Jewish-Muslim relations in both contemporary societies and in diverse
historical and geographic settings are often depicted in polarized binary terms. This conference aims to understand interactions and relations between Jews and Muslims in a wide variety of contexts beyond this binary. We encourage papers which offer innovative
theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the study of these topics, and in particular seek papers which adopt a critical approach to the terminology of ‘Jewish-Muslim relations,’ which might itself inadvertently invoke binary, possibly predetermined
relations between Jews and Muslims </font><font size="3"><i>qua</i></font><font size="3"> Jews and Muslims, often within historical and socio-political frameworks that have reified categories of Jews, Muslims, and inter-ethnic/-religious relations.</font></font></div>
<div style="background-color: white; margin: 14pt 0px 24px;"><font color="#202020"><font size="3">We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to:</font></font></div>
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<li><font size="3">Historical cases of interaction between Jews and Muslims</font></li><li><font size="3">Representations and self-representations of Jews and Muslims</font></li><li><font size="3">Jewish and Muslim interfaith activism/dialogue</font></li><li><font size="3">Religion, tradition, secularism and innovation</font></li><li><font size="3">Antisemitism and Islamophobia</font></li><li><font size="3">Islamic and Jewish polemic and intellectual cross-fertilisation</font></li><li><font size="3">Critical theory and Jewish-Muslim relations</font></li><li><font size="3">Gender and sexuality</font></li><li><font size="3">Jews and Muslims in the arts, literature and media</font></li><li><font size="3">Multilingualism, translation and transnationalism</font></font></li></ul>
<div style="background-color: white; margin: 14pt 0px 24px;"><font color="#202020"><font size="3">Paper proposals should include abstracts of 250 words and a speaker biography of no more than 100 words. Speakers are allocated 20 minutes to present and 10 minutes
for questions and discussion. Please address all proposals and queries to the organizers (Adi Bharat and Katharine Halls) at </font><a href="mailto:jewish.muslim@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: transparent;">jewish.muslim@manchester.ac.uk</span></font></a></font></div>
<div style="background-color: white; margin: 14pt 0px 24px;"><font color="#202020"><font size="3">Deadline for submissions: </font><font size="3"><b>December 1, 2019</b></font></font></div>
<div>Best wishes,<br>
Adi</div>
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<div style=""><font size="1" face="Verdana" style="">Adi S. Bharat </font>
<div style=""><font size="1" face="Verdana">PhD Researcher in French Studies<br>
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<div><font size="1" face="Verdana">Coordinator, Jewish-Muslim Research Network (JMRN) </font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="Verdana" size="1">School of Arts, Languages and Cultures | University of Manchester</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="Verdana" size="1">Samuel Alexander Building | Oxford Road | Manchester M13 9PL</font></div>
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