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Date: 06 Dec 2001
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: 4th Annual California MES Conference
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CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2002
FOURTH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA REGIONAL MIDDLE EAST STUDIES CONFERENCE
An Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday, March 23, 2002
hosted by
the Center for Middle East Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Center for Middle East Studies at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, is pleased to announce UCSB's fourth annual interdisciplinary
conference on the Middle East to be held on Saturday, March 23, 2002.
Proposals on ALL topics in the field of Middle East Studies are welcome.
This year, however, we are particularly interested in receiving proposals
related to two themes around which the program committee hopes to create
several panels:
(1) Cultural Connections between the Middle East and South Asia
(2) The Impact of 9/11 on the Field of Middle East Studies
As with our three previous annual conferences, this conference is designed
primarily to bring together faculty and graduate students from colleges
and universities within the state of California (including the campuses of
the University of California and California State University systems, as
well as private institutions); however, scholars from throughout the
western United States are welcome. Last year's conference was attended by
faculty and students from 26 different universities and colleges.
The unrestricted historical scope and broad geographic parameters of the
conference aim at promoting dialogue and exchange across the fullest
possible spectrum of disciplines by approaching the <<Middle East>> in its
most inclusive conceptualization, one that includes ancient religions and
peoples, Islamic studies, early and Eastern Christianity, Middle Eastern
Judaisms (Biblical, Hellenistic, Sephardic, & Mizrahi as well as modern
Israel), as well as linguistically defined fields such as Arabic,
Armenian, Byzantine, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish studies, and
the full range of academic disciplines, including archaeology, history,
literary studies, anthropology, political science, sociology, economics,
environmental studies, global studies, international relations, and
others.
The conference schedule includes two different types of sessions:
(1) panels for the presentation of individual research papers; and,
(2) working groups of faculty members aimed at promoting collaborative
research projects, pedagogical discussions, and the coordination of
resources among campuses. Examples of working groups that have been
convened at previous conferences include:
-- Gender and Citizenship in Muslim Communities
-- Classical Antiquity and the Middle East
-- Andalusian/Medieval Iberian Studies
-- Middle Eastern Judaisms (Sephardi & Mizrahi cultures)
-- Teaching Middle Eastern Languages
-- Islam in the Undergraduate Curriculum
-- Medieval Middle Eastern Studies
-- The Politics of Memory (a book forum)
-- Teaching and Writing about the `Difficult Subjects':
Honor Killings, Veiling, Female Circumcision, Women and Shari`ah law
-- Iran since the Revolution
CALL FOR PAPERS AND/OR WORKING GROUPS
We are now soliciting applications for participants to present a research
papers and/or convene a working group. Although conference attendance is
open to the general public, paper presenters and conveners of working
groups must be FACULTY MEMBERS OR GRADUATE STUDENTS.
* Research papers are to be BRIEF (15-minute) reports on current
research so as to allow more time for question-and-answer sessions than is
typical at many conferences. To submit a research paper topic, please
fill out the form below with a title and a 250-word abstract and return NO
LATER THAN JANUARY 15, 2002. We strongly encourage you to apply by EMAIL.
* To convene a working group please fill out the form below with a
brief description of the focus of the group (up to 100 words) and include
the names of at least TWO other participants who have agreed to attend by
JANUARY 15, 2002. Again, we strongly encourage you to apply by
email. The topics for the various working groups will be publicized
to all participants after February 1 in the conference schedule and on the
conference website.
Logistics: Participants should plan to arrive on Friday, March 22, 2002 or
(in the case of those driving from LA) very early on Saturday, March 23.
The conference will begin at 8:30 AM and will run until 6:30 in the
evening. Following this there will be a dinner and a concert of Middle
Eastern music and dance performed by the UCSB Middle East Ensemble.
Travel and hotel information will be supplied to all potential
participants.
Paper presenters and conveners of working groups will be provided with two
nights lodging at a nearby hotel, reimbursement of travel expenses up to a
maximum of $250, as well as their meals during the day of the conference.
For further information contact
Dwight F. Reynolds, Director,
Center for Middle East Studies, UCSB
Email: dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-7143
-- or --
Garay Menicucci, Assistant Director
Center for Middle East Studies
Email: Menicucci at isber.ucsb.edu
Phone: 805-893-4245.
______________________________________________________________________________________
THIRD CALIFORNIA REGIONAL MIDDLE EAST STUDIES CONFERENCE
DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2002
NAME:
POSITION:
INSTITUTION:
MAILING ADDRESS:
EMAIL ADDRESS:
PHONE:
FAX:
The following application is to:
_______ present a research paper ______ convene a working group
_____ both
PAPER TITLE (please attach an abstract of up to 250 words in length):
WORKING GROUP TITLE:
For working groups, please attach a brief description of up to 100 words
PLUS the names of two additional faculty members who have agreed to attend
this group along with their addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
SEND BY EMAIL: dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu
OR REGULAR MAIL: DWIGHT REYNOLDS, DIRECTOR
CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106
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