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Rethinking MENA and the Muslim World
Graduate Student Virtual Symposium
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
May 31, 2022
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Graduate Student Virtual Symposium
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
May 31, 2022
The ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies and the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (MEIS) at the University of Alberta will host an interdisciplinary graduate-level online symposium that aims to bring together graduate students from ALL DISCIPLINES to critically examine a variety of topics relating to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the larger Muslim contexts. All Master's and PhD students with a research project on any aspect of socio-cultural, historical, religious, art and political issues in MENA and Muslim contexts are invited to submit an abstract of their presentation.
Please complete the registration form by clicking HERE. Proposals should include a presentation title, brief author bio, and a max 300-word abstract outlining the main argument(s), research methods, and principal evidence and/or findings. The deadline to submit proposals is April 30, 2022. Accepted proposals will be notified in early May.
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PRIZES
The ECMC Chair in
Islamic Studies Prizes for
best papers
Participants at the symposium have the option to submit their papers two weeks after the symposium on June 15 and participate in the graduate competition for the best papers.
The ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta is pleased to offer two prizes to the first and second-best papers:
First best paper
$500
Rethinking the diffusion of constitutional ideas in the Islamic world
Sara Zanotta (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy)
Second best paper
$300
Syrian Citizen Journalists and Communication Technologies: Tools in Evading State Repression
Mark Barrow (University of Cambridge)
Myth as Mobiliser in the Early Syrian Revolution
Jack McGinn (London School of Economics)
Beyond Politics: Iran’s Century of Classical Music and Multiple-Modernities
Mehdi Rezania (University of Alberta)
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contact
ADDRESS
Department of Political Science
10-16 HM Tory Building, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H4, Canada
CONTACT PERSON
For more information about the symposium, please contact:
Noureddin Zaamout
Ehsan Kashfi