Call for Papers: MESAAS Graduate Conference 2015
5-6 March 2015
Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University in the City of New York
Submission Deadline: 10th January, 2015
Submission instructions: http://mesaasgradconference.cdrs.columbia.edu/index.php/mesaasgradconf/m...
Keynote Speaker: Ann Stoler
The Organizing Committee of the 2015 MESAAS Graduate Student Conference at Columbia University is pleased to welcome abstract submissions for the annual conference which will take place March 5-6, 2015 at Columbia University. Graduate students from all over the world, working in all disciplines, and at all stages of study related to MESAAS regions, are invited to present their latest research to a supportive, critical audience.
We are very happy to announce that Prof. Ann Stoler (The New School for Social Research) will be our keynote speaker.
This year’s themes for the conference include but are not limited to the following areas:
Literatures and aesthetics (Classical, early modern, and contemporary genres of imaginative literature; the visual and performing arts; cinema studies)
Knowledge systems, classical and contemporary (in law, ethics, science, language, and other fields; the history of Oriental Studies; the university)
Genealogies of the political (discursive and institutional histories of contemporary political practices)
Histories, disciplinary and subaltern (comparative studies of academic or professional modes of history writing and the vernacular or popular forms of retelling the past)
Students interested in presenting a 15-20-minute paper should submit a 300-500 word abstract through the conference website: http://mesaasgradconference.cdrs.columbia.edu/index.php/mesaasgradconf/m... by January 10th, 2015. Notifications will be sent in early February. For other inquiries, please contact us via: [email protected]
