Call for papers

Fusayfsa`, Smith College’s student-led Middle East Studies Journal, is currently accepting submissions from undergraduate students to contribute to our fifth edition! We are looking for research papers, opinion pieces, book/movie reviews, poetry, visual artwork, or any other forms of media produced by students related to the MENA region! Submit your work via this google form.  … Continue reading Call for Submissions: Fusayfsa’, the Smith College student-led Middle East Studies Journal, January 30th, 2026

The 40th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT) at The University of Chicago will take place on May 1-2, 2026.   About the Conference. Since its inception four decades ago, the annual Middle East History and Theory Conference at the University of Chicago has earned a reputation as one of the premier academic gatherings in … Continue reading Call for papers: 40th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, January 31, 2026

Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis Inaugural Humanities of AI Workshop Johns Hopkins University, April 24-26, 2026 As a creative aspiration, the Greek notion of mimesis (“imitation”) manifested not only in artistic works imitating reality and philosophical speculations but also in scientific theories and mechanical artifacts. Plato and Aristotle’s nous as a non-bodily principle of … Continue reading Call for Papers: Humanities of AI Workshop—Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis, Johns Hopkins University, January 31, 2026

From the Organizers: The Program on Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law is pleased to announce its inaugural academic conference to occur on February 4–5 at the Law School's Newark, New Jersey campus. The American Bar Association defines the "rule of law" as a set of principles … Continue reading Call for Papers: Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law—An Interdisciplinary Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, November 1, 2025

The call for papers for MESA 2026 (60th annual meeting, Nov 21-24, 2026, at the Hilton Boston Park Plaza) is now out: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers Note that the deadline for submissions is Feb 17 (2026) As in previous MESA meetings, Middle East Medievalists will sponsor panels in the MESA 2026 meeting. We encourage all medievalists organizing panels to send us abstracts … Continue reading Call for Panels: Middle East Medievalists at MESA 2026, February 12, 2026 @ 8:00pm

MESA 2026 Call for Papers Deadline to submit is February 17, 2026 (11:59 AM EST) The 60th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association will be held in person in Boston, MA, on November 21-24, 2026. MESA members are invited to propose papers and sessions for the 60th Annual Meeting of the Middle East … Continue reading Call for Papers: Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 17, 2026

Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, May 7-9, 2026 Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by: Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) Jacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law) and Co-Sponsored by the American Society of Comparative Law We invite all interested comparative law scholars to submit a paper for the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, Princeton University, February 20, 2026