Enslavement and related asymmetric systems of power are relationships that operate on multiple levels. These include, but are not limited to, the interpersonal, those negotiated within the social and cultural structure, linguistics, economy, and law. How systems of slavery are justified and maintained reaches deeply into the question of humanity. Institutions of slavery employ emotional, … Continue reading CFP for MESA 2019: Exploring Freedom, Emancipation, and Manumission in the Middle East

Venue and date: University of Amsterdam, 13-14 June 2019 Multiple Materialities of Muslim Marriages This international workshop brings together researchers who are engaged in empirical, ethnographically grounded research about the multiple materialities involved in Muslim marriages. We employ the term ‘Muslim marriages’ in a broad sense, referring to marriages with at least one of the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Multiple Materialities of Muslim Marriages

The Middle East Studies Association invites submissions for its 53rd Annual Meeting, November 14-17, 2019, in New Orleans, Louisiana! All submissions within MESA's purview are welcome. All submissions must be made through the myMESA electronic submission system: https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php by no later than Friday, February 15, 2019 at midnight Mountain Standard Time, at which time the myMESA system … Continue reading Call for Papers: MESA’s 53rd Annual Meeting

The Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Forum invites proposals for individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic and/or Middle Eastern Studies for its 3rd Annual Symposium on Wednesday 12th June 2019 at the University of Birmingham, supported by the Theology & Religion Department, UOB. The keynote speaker will be Prof Charles Burnett, … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Post-Graduate Forum