[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: 'Mapping Middle Eastern and North African Diasporas' (University of Leeds, 4-6 July 2008)

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Call for Papers

'Mapping Middle Eastern and North African Diasporas'

University of Leeds
4-6 July 2008

The 2008 BRISMES Annual conference will be hosted by the Department of
Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at Leeds University, England from Friday 4
to Sunday 6 July 2008.

The theme of this year's conference will be 'Mapping Middle Eastern and
North African Diasporas', and therefore would invite contributions which
seek critical understandings of notions like 'Diaspora' , ' Exile',
'Globalisation', ' Effects of war on terror', 'Postcoloniality',
'Xenophobia', 'Islamophobia', 'Transculturation' and 'Occidentalism' as they
relate to the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Diasporas.

Special focus will be on the migrating and diasporic ideas, sounds and
images, including film, photography, music, theatre and performance.

Papers which explore the boundaries between cultural and political
dimensions of mobile spaces, culture and transnational migrations, local
community diasporas, border zones and language contacts, are also welcome.
Although this is a themed conference, papers relating to any aspect of the
Middle East and North Africa will also be welcomed. Contributions from
postgraduate students, and sessions focusing on particular areas within
MENA, are particularly encouraged.

Titles and abstracts (250 words) for 20-minute papers, with a short
biographical statement, contact details and affiliation should be sent 28th
February 2008 to: 

Dr Zahia Smail Salhi, 
Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, 
University of Leeds, 
LS2 9JT 
United Kingdom. 

Alternatively, email your abstract to z.salhi at leeds.ac.uk (please mark your
email subject line: MENA diasporas). 

Proposals will also be considered for panels (of six papers or more). A
200-word rationale should include panel title, brief description of panel
theme, name of the panel chair, and 250-word abstracts of each paper,
contact details and affiliation for each speaker.

Selected papers will be considered for publication.

The conference will also include a publishers' exhibition, film screening
and musical performance. 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Kim Knott 
Professor Michael Suleiman 
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