Dear Colleagues,

FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:

48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more]

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Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Com…[Read more]

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The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South

Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College

Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University

Contact the Seminar Organizers:

gretchen.head@yale-nus.edu.sg

rania.said.tn@gmail.com

In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mikhail Bakhtin insists on the…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) welcomes proposals for panels that focus on Russian, Slavic and East European Literatures. NeMLA is interested in seeing this area grow by offering more panels. Those who are interested in…[Read more]

FYI, please feel free to post and/or circulate the announcement.

Regards,

Suha
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Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transition

Hosted by Maren Wood (Lilli Research Group) and Jennifer Polk (From PhD to Life)

May 2 and 9, 2015

Attend one day: US $25

Attend two days: US $39

Register at:…[Read more]

FYI:
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Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transition

Hosted by Maren Wood (Lilli Research Group) and Jennifer Polk (From PhD to Life)

May 2 and 9, 2015

Attend one day: US $25

Attend two days: US $39

Register at: beyondprof.com/registration

Career Day (May 2, 2015)

11:00 A.M. – 12:20 P.M. (EDT): Higher E…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,

I am still looking for proposals for the panel on “Russia and the Middle East.” We welcome proposals that examine the interaction and cultural exchange between these two areas from the premodern period up to the nineteenth century. The extended deadline is March 21, 2015.

Here is the upd…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I am still looking for proposals for the panel on “Russia and the Middle East.” We welcome proposals that examine the interaction and cultural exchange between these two areas from the premodern period up to the nineteenth century. The extended deadline is March 21, 2015.

Here is the updated CFP and the new deadline:

131st…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:

131st MLA Annual Convention
Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:

131st MLA Annual Convention
Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

We welcome proposals that examine translations of books and exchange of knowlege between the Middle East and Russia in the pre-modern period:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural interaction be…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]

FYI:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/opinion/the-founding-muslims.html?_r=0

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FYI. A feminist thriller, Traitors, filmed in Morocco, in Arabic and French with English subtitles, now available from Amazon in DVD and VOD.

When writer/ director Sean Gullette’s feature film–a feminist thriller, shot in Morocco with a new Moroccan star, Chaimae ben Acha– opened at the Tribeca Film Festival…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

The Forum on Modern Arabic Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for its three sponsored panel at the next MLA convention in Austin, Texas, 7–10 January 2016:

1. Who Reads Arabic Literature?

The publics of Arabic literature, its translation into other languages, worldwide circulation, reception, teaching, and a…[Read more]

FYI:

The Forum on Modern Arabic Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for its three sponsored panel at the next MLA convention in Austin, Texas, 7–10 January 2016:

1. Who Reads Arabic Literature?

The publics of Arabic literature, its translation into other languages, worldwide circulation, reception, teaching, and adaptation into o…[Read more]

Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA

Panel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”

This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women are represented in…[Read more]