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Second World Congress for
Middle Eastern Studies
Amman, Jordan, 11-16 June 2006
Scholars, experts and students involved in the study
of the Middle East, North Africa and the Muslim states of Central Asia,
in addition to those areas of the world directly or indirectly affected
by developments in these regions, are invited to submit proposals for
panels, papers and roundtables for the Second World Congress for Middle
Eastern Studies (WOCMES-2), which will take place in Amman, Jordan on
11-16 June 2006.
Individuals wishing to attend WOCMES-2 will have to pre-register and pay
a Congress fee. Those intending to participate in the program by joining
a panel or roundtable or by submitting an individual paper must complete
the pre-registration process before submitting a proposal. Click on “About Pre-Registration”
on the sidebar to find out more. Please note that you will not be
required to join any organization or pay any additional membership fees
to attend or participate in WOCMES-2. If your proposal is rejected and
you wish to withdraw from the Congress, you will be entitled to a refund
of 90% of the Congress fee so long as you pay by credit/charge card.
The WOCMES-2 Secretariat strongly urges scholars who wish to present a
paper at the Congress to do so in the context of a pre-organized panel.
Two hours will be scheduled for each panel, which will be made up of a
chair, four to five presenters and an optional discussant. Panels should
focus upon a particular theme or problem, which must be clearly
articulated in a scholarly manner by the organizer in the panel
abstract. Each paper should be relevant to the panel’s theme and
purpose. Paper abstracts must be focused and academically strong,
specify the paper’s thesis/significance, objective, methodology, and
underlying research, and offer a convincing conclusion. Submission of
the panel registration form and all abstracts is the responsibility of
the panel organizer, who will be encouraged to register online. We
reserve the right to assign a presenter to any panel containing fewer
than five persons if we receive a relevant abstract in response to the
call for individual papers.
Individual papers submitted to the WOCMES-2 academic committee will be
judged according to the criteria given above. Papers accepted by the
committee will be grouped into panels and chairs appointed if they
cannot be assigned to a pre-existing panel.
WOCMES-2 will also facilitate a limited number of roundtable discussions
on the current state of scholarship in a particular field, new work in
progress, problems connected to innovative approaches or models, or
other questions of broad general concern. Participants do not present
papers, but share their own views and engage their colleagues, including
members of the audience, in an open discussion and debate on the theme.
This does not mean, however, that participants are exempt from
submitting an outline in which they explain their own particular
approaches to the theme. The theme itself and its scope and purpose must
be clearly defined by the organizer in an outline disseminated among
participants in advance.
The maximum length for all abstracts and outlines is 400 words. English
will be the working language of the congress, with some French and
Arabic.
The principal themes from the first WOCMES have been retained: Ancient
Middle East; Historical Approaches; Islam in Past and Present; Christian
and Biblical Studies; Urban Studies and Space; Water and the
Environment; Economics of the Middle East; Politics of the Middle East;
Women and Gender Studies; Normative Phenomena and Legal Research;
Migration Studies; Media and Cultural Studies; Linguistics and
Literature; and Nationality, Identities and Ethnicity. The WOCMES-2
Secretariat expects a few additional and timely themes to be added to
this list before the end of 2005.
The disciplines involved include: anthropology; archaeology;
architecture/urban planning; art; cinema studies/film; communications;
conflict resolution; development studies; economics; education;
Egyptology; environmental studies; folklore; geography; history;
international relations; Islamic studies; journalism; law;
library/museum science; language; linguistics; literature; media
studies; music; numismatics; philology; philosophy; political science;
population studies; religious studies; sociology; and women’s and gender
studies.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for pre-organized
panels, individual papers and roundtables is 15 February 2006. There
will be no further extensions.
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