<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">Degerli Dostlar,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Asagidaki mesaji ilgilenebilecek meslektaslasiniza yonlendirebilirsiniz.</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Iyi calismalar dileklerimle,</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">
<br><div>Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Karakas)</div><div>PhD Candidate, Social Anthropology</div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;text-align:left">Cambridge University, BRISMES Grad Section Secretary</span></div>


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<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">The Graduate Section of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and the conference Co-Host, LSE Middle East Centre, invites you to participate to its annual conference.<u></u><u></u></p>



<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Change and Continuity in the Middle East</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>



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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rethinking West Asia, North Africa and the Gulf after 2011</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>



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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Graduate</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Section of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>



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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Annual Conference</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.25pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center">



<a name="134f103d2a40be08_134f0eb62914b93b_134f0d3c4b16b195_134f0ccd7a653b51_TOC-11-of-June-2012"></a><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">11</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">of June 2012</span><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>



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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999">The London School of Economics </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999">and Political Science</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>



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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999">London, United Kingdom</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>



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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CONFERENCE CALL:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">The fact that 2011 has been a year of momentous importance for West Asia, North Africa and the Gulf can hardly be disputed. For this reason, the Graduate Section of BRISMES hereby extends an invitation to all young researchers and PhD candidates to present research that addresses the political, economic, social and cultural transitions taking place across the region. We welcome submissions of papers and panel proposals from any disciplinary field which reflects on these events and the resilience displayed despite the pressure of mass uprisings, regime changes, and the emergence of new conflicts. Will the Middle East become more democratic? What is the role of political Islam? How do the events of 2011 influence the conflicts in the region? Is the Middle East finding a new civil conscience? How is the political economy of the region changing? To what extent were the arts, social networking, civil society or collective memory relevant factors of change in the region? What was the impact of foreign policies towards Middle Eastern states? Is the discourse of "resistance" outdated or is it a factor of change? Are human rights the new political vocabulary of the Middle East? Is women's emancipation really happening in the region?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>



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