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CONFERENCES

1. Symposium: "Revolutions/Revo-coup-lutions? A Reassessment of the Arab Springs",
University of Manchester, 19 September 2013: Extended Deadline for Proposals!

2. Workshop and Conference: "Integrity Risks in the Public-Private Interface: Egypt
Research Conference on Integrity", Egypt, 4 November and 4-5 December 2013

3. International Conference: "Anthropology in Morocco: Discourses, Encounters, and
Networks", University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 21-22 November
2013

4. International Graduate Student Conference: "Rethinking Palestine", Vienna, 13-15
December 2013

5. International Conference: "25 Years of Revolution - Comparing Revolt and
Transition from Europe 1989 to Arab World 2014", University of Edinburgh, 8-9
January 2014

6. Middle East Dialogue 2014: "Strategies for Change in the Middle East",
Washington, D.C., 27 February 2014

7. Conference: "Pathways of Communication: Roads and Routes in Anatolia from
Prehistory to Seljuk Times", Ankara, 20 - 22 March 2014
 
8. 17th Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association,
University of Málaga, Spain, 28-31 May 2014


OTHER INFORMATION

9. Call for Proposals for Chapters in Edited Volume: "Arab Spring and Peripheries" 

10. Article Proposals for "Mediterranean Voyages", Special Issue of Mediterranean
Studies

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CONFERENCES

1. Symposium: "Revolutions/Revo-coup-lutions? A Reassessment of the Arab Springs",
University of Manchester, 19 September 2013: Extended Deadline for Proposals!

The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World and the School of Arts,
Languages and Cultures (Middle Eastern Studies) at the University of Manchester
invite you to a one day symposium which aims to discuss and evaluate the new
challenges facing activists, politicians and the academic community with regard to
the achievements and the shortcomings of the Arab springs with special emphasis on
Arab youths.
  
From Algeria to Egypt and beyond, the popular uprisings which brought down the old
regimes have, almost with no exception, elected Islamic conservative parties as the
new alternative. Whether these parties were allowed to rule after winning the
elections (Tunisia &Egypt) or not (Algeria), the general feeling among citizens of
these regions is that the change they hoped for did not concretise.  One wonders
whether such movements could really be called 'revolutions' or, to use Jonathan
Rugman's term, 'revo-coup-lutions'?
   
The deadline for abstracts has been extended until 30 August 2013. Information
http://www.casaw.imes.ed.ac.uk/news-events/revolutionsrevo-coup-lutions-a-reassessment-of-the-arab-springs/

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2. Workshop and Conference: "Integrity Risks in the Public-Private Interface: Egypt
Research Conference on Integrity", Egypt, 4 November and 4-5 December 2013

The first large meeting of its kind, this research conference aims to bring together
leading academics from Egypt and the broader MENA region with young scholars, civil
society organisations, business analysts, and policy makers. Through this, we aim to
collectively advance our understanding of key challenges to integrity in Egypt and
the MENA region and of how academic research can support better public policy for
integrity and anti-corruption.

Deadline for abstracts: 2 September 2013. Information
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=206042

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3. International Conference: "Anthropology in Morocco: Discourses, Encounters, and
Networks", University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 21-22 November
2013

The conference will host keynote lectures, plenary sessions, and different workshops
concerning the anthropology of Morocco. Potential themes for papers could include,
but are not limited to, the following axes: ethnicity, identity, and alterity;
gender, body, and health; religion; ritual and social practices; food and eating;
socio-political movements; and space, place, and material culture.

Deadline for proposals 15 September 2013. Information
http://anthropologymorocco.wordpress.com/
 
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4. International Graduate Student Conference: "Rethinking Palestine", Vienna, 13-15
December 2013

The conference should bring together critical theoretical and empirical research on
Palestine as well as repercussions of the Arab uprisings in Palestine from a
diversity of disciplinary perspectives, e.g. development studies, gender studies,
geography, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, law, history or
political economy. The conference will offer an opportunity for graduate
students/researchers and PhD candidates to provide fresh insights into different
issues and to reshape established orthodoxies of their disciplines.

Abstract Deadline: 30 September, 2013. Information:
http://cds-ie.univie.ac.at/en/home.html
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5. International Conference: "25 Years of Revolution - Comparing Revolt and
Transition from Europe 1989 to Arab World 2014", University of Edinburgh, 8-9
January 2014

The events from late 2010 in the Arab world and those of 1989 in Central and Eastern
Europe (CEE) have invited many comparisons and even been described as two chapters
in the story of democracy's spread across the globe.

This unique conference is organised by the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab
World (CASAW), Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), and
the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS).

Proposals are invited for papers including but not limited to the following topics
as they relate either to the Arab uprisings or the revolutions in Central and
Eastern Europe.  Papers may deal with one or other case, but priority will be given
to those that include a comparative dimension and/or provide insights into
analytical and theoretical concerns such as nationalism and ideology; democracy and
democratisation; transnationalism; civil society; labour movements; revolutions and
international relations; the politics of militaries and security sectors;
non-violent resistance; civil wars; the role of religion; social movements; or the
role of media and communications.

Deadline for proposals: 22 September 2013, Information
www.casaw.ac.uk/news-events/call-for-papers-for-the-international-conference-25-years-of-revolution-comparing-revolt-and-transition-from-europe-1989-to-arab-world-2014/

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6. Middle East Dialogue 2014: "Strategies for Change in the Middle East",
Washington, D.C., 27 February 2014
 
The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) and the Wiley journal Digest of Middle East
Studies (DOMES) invite you to submit a research. The purpose of this annual
conference is to address persistent issues, progress, challenges, conflicts and to
promote dialogue about current policy concerns and to provide a civil space for
discussion across the religious, socio-economic and political spectrum.

Deadline for proposals 30 November 2013.  Information
http://www.ipsonet.org/conferences/middle-east-dialogue.

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7. Conference: "Pathways of Communication: Roads and Routes in Anatolia from
Prehistory to Seljuk Times", Ankara, 20 - 22 March 2014

Interaction between individuals and human communities and societies has always
entailed movement, an action that does not occur randomly in the landscape, but is
instead focused on specific paths that allow faster and easier connections. Roads
and routes are therefore essential in carrying vital materials and information from
one location to another. Turkey offers amongst the richest remains of routes, roads
and tracks worldwide. The aim of this conference is to discuss these networks and
their impact on society from different angles from the prehistory onwards.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2013. Information
http://pathwaysofcommunication.wordpress.com/
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8. 17th Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association,
University of Málaga, Spain, 28-31 May 2014

Proposals are now being solicited for individual paper presentations, panel
discussions, and complete sessions on all subjects related to the Mediterranean
region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all historical periods.

Information https://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/

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OTHER INFORMATION

9. Call for Proposals for Chapters in Edited Volume: "Arab Spring and Peripheries" 

Lorenzo Kamel, Visiting Fellow (2013/2014) at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, and Daniela Huber, researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali of Rome
are editing a comprehensive collection interested in examining if and how
"peripheries" have reacted and contributed to the historical changes currently
unfolding in the MENA region. We are looking for chapters from across the
disciplines, theoretical and empirical inputs, and are particularly interested in
topics such as gender, LGBT, development issues, the dynamics registered in specific
rural villages, the impact of the Arab Spring on the "everyday," and the
"borderlines" of the Arab Spring.

Deadline for proposal 1 November 2013. Information
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=206050

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10. Article Proposals for "Mediterranean Voyages", Special Issue of Mediterranean
Studies

The purpose of this special issue of Mediterranean Studies is to generate a
discussion of the Mediterranean voyage as a way of eludicating the field of
Mediterranean Studies today. The deadline for articles of 15 to 25 pages in English
is 1 January 2014.  Information:
http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=234