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1) Subject:Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies

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Date: 20 Nov 2008
From:<kmiller3 at email.arizona.edu>
Subject:Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies

Call for Papers
The Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Association of the  
University
of Arizona is pleased to announce its 9th annual Southwest Graduate  
Conference
in Middle Eastern Studies in cooperative with the University of Arizona
Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern  
Studies at
the University of Arizona. This year's theme is Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives in Middle Eastern Studies.

This conference features student presenters at both the M.A. and Ph.D.  
level and
provides a friendly forum to practice submitting a proposal and  
presenting a
conference paper. It also allows graduate students to make connections  
with
specialists in the field and to receive constructive feedback from  
faculty
commentators on work-in-progress. Each year a keynote speaker is  
invited to
speak on an aspect of his or her work in an event open to the public.


This event offers an opportunity for up-and-coming scholars with similar
interests to network and is also an ideal form for encouraging  
collaboration
across disciplines and specializations. For this reason we encourage  
paper
submissions not only from students studying within Middle Eastern  
Studies
departments but also from associated disciplines such as anthropology,  
history,
political science, linguistics, comparative literature etc. Papers  
should
address topics on within the geographical area of Iran, Turkey,  
Afghanistan,
Pakistan, the Arab World, and other areas such as Spain and  
Southeastern Europe
that were parts of Middle Eastern empires or civilizations and be the  
author?s
original, unpublished work.


Selected papers will be compiled and published in the conference  
journal Zaytoon
and will be available after the conference.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Hebrew linguistics
International and domestic politics
Media and music studies
Urban planning and politics of space
Technology, health, and medicine
Religious studies
Literary analysis
Gender studies
Ethnicity and nationalism
Colonialism and post-colonial theory
Art and architecture of the Islamic world
Historical analysis
Conflict studies

Submission Instructions:

Please fill out and submit the Presenter Submission Form and paper  
abstract
electronically if possible. If attached seperately, abstracts should  
be no more
than 150 words, typed, and in Word format. The abstract should have your
paper?s title but NOT your name as the review process is blind.  
Submitted
paper should not exceed 20 pages double-spaced and presentation should  
not
exceed 15 minutes. Please direct submissions and/or questions to  
Conference
Co-Chairs Shauna Little and Keri Miller at uamena at gmail.com.

Submission Deadline:

For priority consideration for the 2009 conference, submissions must  
be made by
5pm MST on December 1st, 2008. After this date, submissions will be  
accepted on
a rolling acceptance basis until all spots are filled with no  
submissions
accepted after January 15th, 2009. Those individuals who have  
submitted by the
Dec. 1st deadline will be notified of their acceptance by January  
15th, 2009.
Please send submissions and/or questions to Conference Co-Chairs  
Shauna Little
and Keri Miller at uamena at gmail.com.

Submission Materials:

Presenter Submission Form [Excel document]
Call for Papers [Word document]
(For links to these documents please go to www.uamena.org)


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