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Extended Call for Papers and Panels: Second Annual SWEMENA Conference 2023

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The second Annual SWEMENA Conference will be hosted by Stockholm University’s Institute for Turkish Studies on 24-25 August 2023.

The second Swedish Middle East and North Africa Network (SWEMENA) Annual Conference will be hosted by Stockholm University's Institute for Turkish Studies. We look forward to this opportunity to solidify the network and meet in person, and to host excellent papers and panels across all fields and disciplines related to Middle Eastern Studies. We therefore invite contributions from all doctoral students and researchers based in Sweden working on topics related to the MENA region (including Turkey and Afghanistan). Master students are welcome to attend. The working language of the conference will be English.

The deadline for abstracts – for panels or individual presentations – is Tuesday 2 May 2023

We invite submissions of abstract of no more than 250 words, on any topic related to Middle Eastern Studies. While submissions are open to all fields and disciplines, we invite you to please attach 3 of the keywords below to your abstract. Accepted proposals entails giving a 15-minute presentation at the conference in a panel organised by either SWEMENA or a group of participants themselves.

Keywords:

  • Authoritarianism
  • Conflict
  • Culture
  • Decolonization
  • Democracy
  • Environment/Climate Change
  • Gender
  • Governance
  • Health
  • Human Rights
  • Islam
  • Language
  • Literature & art
  • Media
  • Migration
  • Minorities
  • Nationalism
  • Political economy
  • Popular culture
  • Protest
  • Religion
  • Sectarianism
  • Social Movements
  • State-Society Relations
  • Youth

To submit your abstracts and for any questions, please contact Isabella Aslan (isabella [dot] aslan [at] ui [dot] se (isabella[dot]aslan[at]ui[dot]se))

SWEMENA expects to return a decision of acceptance in May.