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“Cinema of the Arab World”: Conference and Call for Papers

New Cairo Campus, AUC AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, Egypt

Call for Papers Please submit 300-400-word abstracts, including a short biographical statement and a 5-entry bibliography, to Terri Ginsberg and Iman Hamam by August 31, 2017.  Acceptance notices will be circulated by October 1, 2017.  Participants must submit their completed...

“Women, Social Change and Activism: Then and Now”

  Conference on The Global Status of Women and Girls at Christopher Newport University Call for Papers: Abstract Deadline is September 3, 2017 Submissions from any academic discipline are welcome, including, but not limited to, art,...

“What is Islam?: Conventional Views and Contemporary Perspectives” Conference

Research Hall, Room 163 10401 York River Road, Fairfax, VA, United States

Research Hall, Room 163 In the two years since its publication, the late Shahab Ahmed’s inquiry into What is Islam? has generated much needed debate across multiple fields related to the study of Islam. His erudite proposal...

33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference

The University of Chicago

Call for Proposals We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle East from the sixth century c.e. to the present day, including but not limited...

Call for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference

Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University , Turkey

Call for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference: China and West Asia: Economic Development; and Social and Political Cooperation Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University Cappadocia - TURKEY June 20-22, 2018   Organized by Nevsehir...

World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

Rectorate of the University of Seville Calle San Fernando, 4, Seville, Spain

The Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation welcomes the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018, serving as a meeting point to present, debate...

CfP: Sharia and the Secular

University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Proposals should be sent to isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu and must be received by July 30, 2018 About the Conference The SoCal Islamic Studies Graduate Student Consortium invites papers exploring the theme of “Sharia and the Secular.” Does Sharia rule Muslims’...

Conceptualizing Sectarianization

University of Bern

About the Conference Conceptualizing Sectarianization: Perspectives on the Dynamics of Ethno-Religious Difference in Studying the Middle East and North Africa Demarcating a given community on the basis of its confessional identity or religious denomination has...

The Reach of Empire – The Early Islamic Empire at Work

Universität Hamburg

About the Conference As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” nears its end, its final conference shall invite participants to examine the reach...