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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Nassef M. Adiong</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nassef.adiong@yahoo.com">nassef.adiong@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM<br>Subject: Call for Paper Proposals for the MESA 2011 Co nference for the Proposed Panel on "Islam and International Relations: Mutual Perceptions ”<br>To: <a href="mailto:MESA-GSO@listserv.arizona.edu">MESA-GSO@listserv.arizona.edu</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Call for paper proposals for the proposed panel on “Islam and International Relations: Mutual Perceptions” for the 2011 MESA Conference (<span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%">1-4 December 2011</span></span></span></span></span>, Washington DC). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Greetings!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">I would like to invite you to contribute a research/study paper for the panel on “Islam and International Relations: Mutual Perceptions” for the coming MESA annual conference. The deadline for submission of panel proposals is on <span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted">15 February 2011</span></span></span></span></span>. Please read the abstract of the panel below.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">For a very long time, the <span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted">Muslim world</span></span></span></span></span> was regarded as an outsider from the cultural and normative pretext and state relations of the West. Even during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, scholars of International Relations (IR) excluded her as a subordinated non-ally or stealth ally of major European powers. It is now apparent that there is an imperative motivation why Islamic discourses gradually dominate contemporary international relations and events, e.g. Palestinian question, Iranian nuclear issue, Arab oil, gas and Turkish water resources, rise of extremist movements, terrorism, post-war <span><span style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span><span><span style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%">Afghanistan</span></span></span></span></span> and <span><span><span><span><span>Iraq</span></span></span></span></span>, tensions in the Maghreb countries, Sudanese conflict, Muslim rebels in <span><span><span><span style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span>Southeast Asia</span></span></span></span></span>, and how all of these events affect the West in a theory-praxis spectrum. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><span> </span>If IR scholars and members of the English School of International Relations were able to associate and converge their thoughts on conceptualizing International Relations with Christianity, this is of course majority of them are Christians. Then, it is a precedent and an indication that along the strand of the Abrahamic Faiths Islam is putatively feasible and probable to understand and interpret IR. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><span> </span>The objectives of the panel are to show juxtaposed positions of mutual perceptions between Islam and IR based on conceived notions of sensitive conceptions like sovereignty, state, human rights, gender, and etcetera, to eliminate deplorable and pejorative (mis)conceptions of IR scholars towards Islam and vice versa, and add or put Islam in the epitome of global discourse of international relations as a major causal factor that affects the behaviors of every actors in the international community particularly those which have interest and peculiar relations with the <span><span><span><span><span>Muslim world</span></span></span></span></span>. The panel will examine two outstanding inquiries that will guide the panel in hoping to find, discover or create patterns of tangency. Questions below magnify the totality of where the panel will lead at and to what extent it is presented and analyze.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><span> </span><span> </span>1. How <span><span><span style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%">International Relations scholars</span></span></span></span></span> perceived the field of Islam?</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><span> </span>2. How Islamic scholars (Muslims or non-Muslims) perceived the field of IR?</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><span> </span>The organizer humbly hopes that through this panel, we may able to add to the realm of literature on how human races and civilizations are linked through intellectual, cultural, economical, and social exchanges particularly on the relations between the East (Islam) and the West (International Relations). </span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Kindly please send your abstract (200 to 400 words) and a short one-page CV to <span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><a href="mailto:nassef.adiong@yahoo.com" target="_blank">nassef.adiong@yahoo.com</a></span> before 13 February 2011.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Nassef Adiong</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">PhD student in International Relations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(54,99,136) 2px dotted">Middle East Technical University</span></span></span></span></span>,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Ankara, Turkey</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br>