2015 AIMS Graduate Student Writing Workshop

2015 AIMS Graduate Student Writing Workshop

October 10-11, 2015

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at

University of California, Berkeley

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) invites doctoral and masters candidates to its 16th Dissertation Workshop scheduled for October 10-11, 2015 at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

The workshop provides the opportunity for current doctoral or master candidates to present, discuss, and receive valuable feedback on work related to North Africa. Accepted applicants will submit a piece of writing from their dissertations or theses at any stage (prospectus, dissertation chapter, or article draft).  Participants will read and prepare discussion of one or more other submissions in addition to presenting their own.  Scholars who have worked on North Africa in a variety of disciplines will offer feedback, as well as perspectives on publishing, job market conditions, and other topics germane to professional academic development.  The workshop further affords the opportunity to meet and develop relationships with colleagues in the field.

All disciplines are welcome.  In the past they have included: history, political science, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, comparative literature, psychology, public health and more.  There will be some funding for travel expenses and per diem allowances.  Space and funding are limited.

• This workshop is open only to AIMS members. To become a student member (only $50) or renew your membership, please visit the AIMS website at www.AIMSNorthAfrica.org or contact the AIMS Executive Office at aims@aimsnorthafrica.org.
  
  
• Applicants must send a current C.V. and short (300-word) topic proposal to the AIMS Graduate Student Association President David Stenner atdstenner@ucdavis.edu.  
  
  
• Selected participants will be notified by email and asked to submit a chapter/prospectus/ article for review.
  
  
• The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2015.

Please share this announcement with interested colleagues and friends!

This event is sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

http://aimsnorthafrica.org/AC/adw.cfm

Middle East History and Theory (MEHAT) Conference; May 1-2, 2015

The 30th Annual Middle East History and Theory (MEHAT) Conference will take place at the University of Chicago on Friday and Saturday, May 1–2, 2015. We are pleased to invite students and faculty to submit papers for the conference. 

As always, we welcome a broad range of submissions from across disciplines, including (but not limited to) anthropology, art history, cinema and media studies, economics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, sociology… or any other topic concerning the Middle East from the advent of Islam to the present day. This year we are particularly interested in submissions relating to the fields of modern Arabic literature and Central Eurasian studies. A small number of conference participants with papers in those areas may be eligible to receive a modest travel subsidy.

We are thrilled to announce that the keynote address at the 2015 conference will be delivered by Michael Cook of Princeton University. 

Those wishing to participate should send a 250-word abstract to the conference organizers at MEHATConference@gmail.com by Friday, February 20, 2015. We will accept both individual papers and prearranged themed panels; the latter format is especially encouraged.

For the most up-to-date information on the conference, please refer to the MEHAT website (http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference). 

Important announcements will also be shared through the MEHAT Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Middle-East-History-and-Theory-MEHAT/175313945840631).

Call for Papers: Middle Eastern and North African Undergraduate Organization Conference

The Middle East and North Africa Undergraduate Organization (MENA-U), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona cordially invite you to participate in the 1st Annual Middle Eastern and North African Undergraduate Organization Conference to be held Thursday March 5th, and Friday March 6th, 2015 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Keynote Speaker:
Roger Allen, Professor of Arabic Language & Literature, University of Pennsylvania  will be this year’s keynote speaker. On Friday March 6th he will deliver a talk entitled “The 1001 Nights: A Tale of Two Tale Collections.”

Call for Papers: Susman Grad Student Conference

Everyday Enchantments: Beyond Disenchantment’s Critical Horizon

The History Department’s 37th Annual Susman Graduate Student Conference Rutgers University

Friday, April 10, 2015

Keynote Speaker: This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Kate Keller. She is an Assistant Professor of History, African Studies, and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College and the author of “Political Surveillance and Colonial Urban Rule: “Suspicious” Politics and Urban Space in Dakar, Senegal, 1918-1939” in French Historical Studies.

Disenchantment, beginning with Weber’s deployment of the term, has long been understood in the humanities and social sciences as a dialectical process linked to universalizing notions of modernity, rationalization, and enlightenment. This process of disenchantment moves toward rationalism and away from belief: as articulated by Talal Asad, it “implies a direct access to reality, a stripping away of myth, magic, and the sacred.” It is a process constituted by the interlinking projects that we have come to know as “modernity” (secularism, human rights, science and medicine, capitalism, etc.). More recently, however, disenchantment has also been seen as a project of (re)enchantment, a view in which the institutions of our “modern,” “secular” world are themselves enchanted, or were perhaps never disenchanted at all. This complication of the narrative of disenchantment creates new political and conceptual possibilities that compel us to reconsider our work as academics and to examine how we approach our historical subjects, and how imagination plays a role in our intellectual work.  

This conference sees the everyday as a crucial site for recuperating “enchantment” as a critical methodology, which leads to such questions as:

• What role does enchantment play in the ways in which historical subjects move through their daily lives?

• What ethical and political work can the lived experience of the everyday perform in the humanities and social sciences?

• How can the everyday serve not only to counter grand metanarratives or universal theories, but as a site for the creation of theory itself—as a site from which we can critique the epistemologies and methodologies of our own scholarly work?

We invite graduate students from the humanities and social sciences to submit papers, panels, workshops and roundtables based in any time period or geographical location that are related, but by no means limited, to the following themes and subthemes:

1. The Ethical and Political Work of the Everyday: Environmental racism and disposable life, ecologies of space, the right to the city; histories of resistance;  histories and anthropologies of violence; popular and everyday cultures; politics of experience

2. (Dis)Enchanting Epistemologies/Methodologies: Critical approaches to temporality (break between modern and pre-modern); historicization and critique of popular/contemporary epistemologies and methodologies in the social sciences and the humanities;de-colonial knowledges; indigenous knowledges in the academy; archive and museum studies; geopolitics of knowledge

3. Mapping Bodies, Blurring Boundaries: Intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, trans and queer histories/methodologies; desire and affect; material culture and new materialism; critical geographies, mobilities and migration

4. Competing Universalisms : Histories of nationalism, secularism, human rights; politics, propaganda, and political culture; histories of capitalism, commerce, and global exchange, science and technology studies; cosmopolitanism

Proposals are due at 11:59 PM on Sunday March 1, 2015. Please submit all proposals by e-mail to the Susman planning committee at susmanconf@history.rutgers.edu.  Participants will be notified of acceptance by March 9th, and will be required to submit completed 10 page papers by April 3rd.

Individual paper proposals should include a 150-300-word abstract with paper title, and a CV with author contact information. The organizers of complete sessions should send in a single submission and abstracts, 200-word description of the session, and CVs with contact information for all participants. Please list any audio-visual requirements.

Call for Papers: CMENAS Graduate Student Symposium

Call for Papers

Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

University of Michigan

Graduate Student Symposium

Abstract DUE:     February 1, 2015 (deadline extended)

The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) at the University of Michigan invites abstract submissions of no more than 300 words for its inaugural Graduate Student Symposium to be held April 9, 2015.  Papers must address the modern Middle East or North Africa in some way and be the product of graduate research, either at the MA or PhD level.

Panels will be organized into themes based on accepted papers.  Such themse may include, but are not limited to, (1) country-specific considerations, (2) gender and society, (3) visual or material culture, (4) postcolonial studies, and (5) literature. 

Abstracts, along with a short C.V. should be sent to the organizing committee at cmenas.graduate.student.symposium@umich.edu by February 1, 2015.

Final decisions will be announced via email before February 15, 2015.

Call for Papers

“CONSTRUCTING AND CONTESTING ISLAM IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS”

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Fifth Annual Islamic Studies Conference at UC Santa Barbara. This year’s conference will be held May 8th-10th, 2015 at the Mosher Alumni House. The keynote address will be delivered by Charles Hirschkind, professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

We welcome contributions that consider this theme from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with a focus on the ways in which contestations of practice, authority, and interpretation function in the constitution of competing visions of normative Islam. In examining the ways in which Islam and Muslim identities are constructed and contested in contemporary discourses, this conference seeks to explore questions such as: How is language employed, by Muslims and/or non-Muslims, to define and delimit the boundaries of Islamic identity? In what ways do these discursive practices inform and interact with practices of identification by Muslims and non-Muslims? What are the politics and economics that condition representations and perceptions of Islam and Muslims in the ‘public’ sphere?

To submit a proposal, please send an abstract (300-500 words) along with a two-page CV by December 15, 2014 to: 

isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu

We especially encourage papers which take up these issues in relation to the following themes:

Disciplining and Teaching Islam
- The roles of Muslim and non-Muslim organizations (advocacy groups, think tanks, pedagogical institutions) in shaping public perceptions of normative Islam.

- The (mis)use of Islamic terminology in media, political, and popular discourse.

- The development of Islamic Studies as field and its role in shaping and problematizing understandings of Islam.


- Genealogies and changing normativities of Islamic terms and concepts (taqlīd, ijtihād, sharī‘a, khilāfa, etc.)

Islam and the Arts
- Visual arts, music, poetry, literature, architecture, dance, and film.

- The contested place of the Islamic fashion industry in Muslim communities.

- The construction of sensory landscapes and sacred spaces.

Minorities and Marginalization
- Individuals, practices, traditions, movements, and communities that are usually viewed as peripheral (or even “un-Islamic”).

- How traditions, practices, and individuals become marginalized in relation to particular structures of power.

- Islamic counterpublics and the construction of subjectivities.

- Methods and discourses for mobilizing Muslims for protest, activism, or militancy.

- Changing practices and possibilities of identification across generational, spatial, and social contexts, including the politics of hyphenated or qualified identities (American-Muslim, Arab-Muslim, secular Muslim, modern Muslim, etc.).

Travel assistance may be available for conference presenters on a limited basis.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: UCSB Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference

We would like to announce that the submission deadline for paper proposals for the 4th UCSB Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference has been extended to January 31st, 2014. We would greatly appreciate if you could circulate this email around your department.

This year's conference, titled (Un)Civil Society: Past and Present, will address the various historical and contemporary manifestations of civil society and political/social unrest in the Middle East and wider Islamic World. We invite the submission of any paper proposals that address civil society and political unrest in the Middle East and wider Islamic World, widely conceived, in both historical and contemporary societies. Proposals from a variety of disciplines are welcomed!

Submission Guidelines: To have your paper considered, please submit a paper proposal/abstract (maximum 300 words) and a two-page Curriculum Vitae by January 31st, 2014. Email proposals to isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu Travel assistance may be available for needy applicants on a limited basis.

For more information, see below and attached:

(Un)Civil Society: Past and Present
The 4th Annual UCSB Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference

April 4th–6th, 2014
University of California, Santa Barbara

Call For Papers

Islamic societies are witnessing an unprecedented wave of protests and revolt that have provoked renewed discussions over the character of civil society. From the 2009 Iranian “Green Movement” to the ongoing “Arab Spring” movements across the Middle East, there continues to be an intense political contest between various reform movements, ideologies, and the state.

This conference aims to explore the complex and varied social and political forces that have comprised civil society and its relationship to the state in both historical and contemporary contexts/societies.

Professor Gilbert Achcar of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London will be this year’s keynote speaker. Professor Achcar is a leading scholar on politics and developmental economics in the Middle East and North Africa and he has written extensively on the Arab Spring movements.

We invite paper proposals that treat a variety of topics concerning civil society, including, but not limited to:

1. To what extent did pre-modern forms of civil society exist in Islamic societies?
2. How have competing notions of 'civil society' coexisted in the public imagination?
3. The state as a site of civil disobedience and the state's regulation of civil protests.
4. The role of technology as a facilitator and/or inhibitor of civil discourse.
5. How do Islamic discourses situate the Sharia with respect to civil society?
6. The place of gender in the construction of civil discourses.
7. Artistic representations, public spaces and visions of (un)civil society.

Submission Guidelines: To apply, please submit proposals/abstracts (maximum 300 words) and a two page CV by January 31st, 2014 to isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu

Polo Sud. Semestrale di studi storici – Call for papers

A War on Different Fronts: The 1943 Turning of the Tide in the South-East Mediterranean

As a theatre of WWII, North Africa experienced disruption and an acceleration of political developments, while the ripples of the war reached the entire South-East Mediterranean. From the Manifesto of the Algerian People to the foundation of the Istiqlal party in Morocco, 1943 created momentum for the anti-colonial movements. Meanwhile, the Republic of Turkey strengthened its nationalist policies with the anti-Jewish laws of 1942 and the capital levy against ethnic minorities. In occupied Greece and British-ruled Cyprus, the formation of the Allied front entailed the rise of modern parties, with a national Right opposed to a Communist Left, thus anticipating Cold War blocs.

For the anniversary of 1943, the review Polo Sud - Semestrale di studi storici launches a special issue on the repercussions of the war on South-East Mediterranean territories. The central idea is to combine local histories with a global approach in order to grasp connections, interferences and uniformities. Through a focus on processes, actors and issues at stake in local contexts contributors are invited to evaluate the 1943 watershed. Such an approach would allow observing tensions and divisions in the different fronts, regardless of any rhetoric about the union sacrée. Essays can take into account the political dimension of the war, but also its effects on social fabric, family system and gender roles. The economic consequences of the war and its influence on ideologies and worldviews can also be object of study. Since collective memories still bear traces of the war, the special issue is also open to work focusing on memory politics, praxis and narratives.

Guidelines

The proposal must be submitted to rivistapolosud@virgilio.it and melfa@unict.it. The deadline for the submission is 15 January 2014. The proposal should consist of an abstract (300 words) and a short academic profile. The review is pleased to accept articles in Italian, English, French, and Spanish. Selected articles (50,000 characters max, including spaces) have to be submitted by 30 June 2014. After peer review, the articles will be published in December 2014.

Polo Sud. Semestrale di studi storici

Polo Sud. Semestrale di studi storici is a biannual review of historical studies founded in 2012 in the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Catania). It aims to observe historical phenomena from a Southern European point of view, and to foster a dialogue with North Africa and the Middle East with a Mediterranean accent.

Contacts

http://www.editpress.it/cms/collane/polo-sud-semestrale-di-studi-storici
Daniela Melfa: melfa@unict.it
Giuseppe Boscarello: gboscarello@hotmail.com
Giuseppe Maimone: giuseppemaimone.storia@hotmail.it

4th Islamic Studies Conference, UCSB

The graduate students in Islamic and Middle East Studies at UCSB are very pleased to announce their call for papers for the 4th Annual Graduate Student Islamic Studies Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on April 4-6, 2014.

The title of this year's conference is:
(Un)Civil Society, Past and Present.

We are privileged to announce that Dr. Gilbert Achcar of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London with be this year's keynote speaker.

Please find the attached call for papers for more information. All submissions are due by January 15, 2014.

Please email proposals to isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu.

16th Annual CIBER Business Language Conference

The Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBERs) would like to announce the Call for Proposal for the 16th Annual CIBER Business Language Conference. The conference will take place on April 24-26, 2014 at the Canyons Resort, Park City, Utah. The theme for the conference is “Embracing a New Era for Business, Language, and Culture” and the conference’s goal is to link the needs indicated by U.S. businesses and the professions’ with the skills of language administration, instructors, and researchers at all levels (k-12, college and university, etc.) in the commonly taught languages, as well as those languages for which the current needs are critically lacking or are in a developing stage.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION deadline is February 1, 2014. For details on how to submit the proposals, please visit https://marriottschool.byu.edu/event/ciberblc/paper. Please, make sure you follow the guidelines for the proposal submission.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION deadline is April 1, 2014. To register and learn more about the conference please visit http://marriottschool.byu.edu/event/ciberblc. The website will be updated regularly.

IASTE 2014: Call for Abstracts, "Whose Tradition?"

“Whose Tradition?” is the theme of the fourteenth conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from December 14-17, 2014. In examining themes of authorship and subjectivity, this conference will seek to uncover in what manner, for what reason, by whom, to what effect, and during what intervals traditions have been deployed with regard to the built environment.

Our current period of globalization has led to the flexible reinterpretation of traditions via the mass media for reasons of power and profit. A proliferation of environments adopt traditional forms of one place and period in a completely different contextual setting, while new design traditions may privilege image over experience. At the same time, the advent of new mobile technologies with the power to compress and distort traditional configurations of space and time has allowed for the flourishing of new, empowering practices. Such practices have led to new traditions of urban resistance and uprisings that travel fluidly between such diverse locales as São Paolo and Istanbul, Madrid and Cairo, and give voice to certain populations previously excluded. Questions of power, the other, and changing configurations of time and space will open up discussions of the ways in which traditional practices shape the histories and futures of built environments. Papers will explore the following themes: Who: Power and the Construction of Traditions; What: Place and the Anchoring of Traditions; Where: Mobility and the Reimagination of Traditions.

Scholars from relevant disciplines are invited to submit a 500-word abstract and short biography by February 17, 2014. Submission details are available online at: http://iaste.berkeley.edu/

Inquiries should be directed to:
IASTE 2014 Conference, Center for Environmental Design Research,
390 Wurster Hall #1839,
University of California, Berkeley, CA
94720-1839, USA.
Phone: 510.642.6801
fax:510.643.5571
e-mail: iaste@berkeley.edu

IASTE is an academic, non-profit association based at the University of California, Berkeley since 1988, and its activities have included the publication of a semi-annual journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, and an ongoing Working Paper Series.

2014 APSA MENA Workshops: Call For Proposals

Workshop Leaders for the 2014 APSA MENA Workshop
Deadline: 5:00 PM (EST), November 11, 2013

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a call for proposals from political scientists interested in serving as co-leaders for the 2014 MENA Workshop program. The program will be conducted as a series of two, related one-week sessions linked by a 3-4 month break for writing, research, and mentorship. The first of the two workshops will take place in May or June, with the follow-up workshop scheduled for August or September. The same leaders are not required to lead both sessions. For a full description of the program and application process, see the project website.

Background

The APSA MENA Workshops program is a multi-year collaboration in the Arab Middle East and North African countries to enhance scholarly capacity and networking among early-career scholars. With support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, APSA is organizing a series of annual political science workshops in cooperation with host universities across the region. Along with APSA’s Africa Workshop program, the MENA Workshops constitute a major component of APSA’s efforts to engage political science communities outside the United States and support research networks linking US scholars with their colleagues overseas. The inaugural MENA workshop on “States in Transition, Constitutional Engineering and Political Science Research” is currently scheduled to take place at the American University in Cairo (AUC) from February 9-14, 2014.

Each workshop is led by a joint team of senior researchers from universities in the MENA region and the US or Europe. Workshop leaders serve as academic directors of the program and will be responsible for designing a unique syllabus and academic program that is structured around experienced and established partnerships. This includes identifying a university or research institute in the MENA region to host the workshop. Workshop administration and logistics will be led by APSA staff in conjunction with local host partners. A modest honorarium will be provided and related expenses (meals, transportation, and lodging) will be covered.

Each one-week program brings together approximately 20 PhD candidates and early-career scholars from across the MENA region, plus several from the United States and Europe. Over the course of the program, participants will receive training in basic research skills, engage in discussions of topical literature, present and refine manuscripts for publication and build professional connections with other scholars. Participants will be use the period between the two complementary sessions to further their own research with both mentoring and small grant support. The working language of the program is English.

Application Instructions and Criteria

Leadership proposals should focus on the first of the two workshop sessions. Prospective leaders who may be interested in leading the May/June session but not the August/September session are still encouraged to apply. Following the inaugural workshops scheduled to take place at AUC next year, prospective co-leaders should propose a non-Egyptian institutional partner for the 2014 MENA Workshop program. Leaders may propose that both sessions be held at the same host institution, or identify two different partner organizations.

Workshop proposals may be submitted by a combination of Junior (assistant professor) and Senior scholars (associate or full professor), however, the senior scholar must be the lead applicant. We welcome submissions jointly by either:

A) Two political scientists based in the US/Europe together with two regionally-based scholars,
B) Two political scientists based in the US/Europe who commit to partnering with two regionally-based scholars nominated by the MENA Project Steering Committee, or
C) two regionally-based scholars who commit to partnering with two political scientists in the US/Europe nominated by the MENA Project Steering Committee. At least one of the team-members must be based at the regional host institution.

Applications should be written in three sections:

I. Workshop Theme Proposal (1-2 pages)

Prospective co-leaders should specify a thematic focus for each one-week session (or for just the initial one- week workshop if unable to lead both sessions), from which they will build a reading list and set the schedule of events. The workshop theme proposal should provide a coherent intellectual foundation for the program. Any research or substantive theme in political science is welcome. Proposals should address how the theme and methodological questions to be raised will achieve workshop goals and incorporate new developments in the field and literature.

II. Substantive Leadership of the Workshop (2-3 pages)

In this section, applicants must provide detailed information on the following:

• Naming the workshop co-leaders and providing an explanation of the professional ties between them. If submitting a proposal with less than four leaders, include a statement on the team’s current capabilities and the complementary research expertise or experience that additional co-leaders should bring.
• A specific division of labor among the workshop leaders. For example, which workshop leaders are best suited to assume responsibility for particular sections? As necessary, include mention of proposed leadership responsibilities during the period between the two workshop sessions.
• Proposed location and institutional partner, including:
  • Specification of, and justification for, a workshop location and host university/research institute
  • Overview of recommended host institution and relevant background, including specification of institutional capacity to host, support, and organize a residential workshop for up to 30 participants
  • Explanation of existing ties to local research communities and institutions of higher education
• Commitment to the collective intellectual leadership of the workshop, including devoting sufficient time to:
  • reviewing all participant applications
  • finalizing the workshop syllabus and schedule
  • attending week(s) of the workshop in residence
  • consulting regularly with APSA staff from selection through the end of the workshop
  • communicating with applicants in the run-up to the workshop as needed

III. Supplementary Information (no page limit)

This section of the application should provide:

• Recent CVs for all proposed workshop leaders.
• A discussion of any relevant experience in organizing workshops.
• A draft reading list and/or workshop schedule (optional)
• A letter of support from the proposed institutional partner (optional)

Application Timeline and Information

Applications should be submitted electronically to APSA in Microsoft Word format, 12-point font, and double-spaced (except for Section III Supplementary Information, which can be single spaced). Send applications to menaworkshops@apsanet.org by 5:00 PM Eastern Time on November 11, 2013. Selections will be announced in December 2013. Prospective leadership teams interested in receiving feedback on their proposal ideas are encouraged to reach out to APSA well before the submission deadline.

Contact Us: Send an email at menaworkshops@apsanet.org, or call Andrew Stinson at (202) 349-9364, if you have questions or would like more information about the workshops or application process.

Call for Proposals - Middle East Dialogue 2014

Middle East Dialogue 2014: Strategies for Change in the Middle East

The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) and The Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) invites you to submit a proposal for the Middle East Dialogue 2014 focused on Strategies for Change in the Middle East. The Dialogue will be held at the historic Whittemore House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, February 27, 2014. The purpose of the conference is to promote dialogue about current policy concerns and to provide a civil space for discussion across the religious and political spectrum.

Proposals are encouraged to be sent in before the early deadline of November 30, 2013 for priority consideration, to PSO executive director Daniel Gutierrez-Sandoval at dgutierrezs@ipsonet.org. For more information, and to view past MED programs and videos, please visit: http://www.ipsonet.org/conferences/middle-east-dialogue.

The Policy Studies Organization publishes 18 journals and several book series on a variety of subjects. It promotes discussion of policy concerns and further research and dissemination of policy scholarship.