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.
