We are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for submissions to the 8th of January, so please find below our most recently updated Call for Papers. Submission instructions can be found in our Author Guidelines[mesaasgradconference.cdrs.columbia.edu].

Some users have reported technical difficulties with the online submission process. If you run into problems, please contact us at mesaasgradconference@gmail.com, and attach a copy of your abstract and CV.

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS  

“Beyond Boundaries”

MESAAS Graduate Student Conference, 25-26 February 2016

Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies

Columbia University in the City of New York

Keynote Speaker: Talal Asad

 

Submission Deadline:  8 January, 2016

 

Submission instructions:

 http://mesaasgradconference.cdrs.columbia.edu[mesaasgradconference.cdrs.columbia.edu]

 

The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the MESAAS Graduate Student Conference 2016, which will take place on 25-26 February, at Columbia University. We invite graduate students of all disciplines and stages of study related to the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa to present their latest research to a supportive, critical audience.

 

A core aspect of the intellectual community at MESAAS lies in its aspiration to move beyond regional and disciplinary divisions. While many of us are grounded in a specific region or discipline, we all benefit from exploring questions that are echoed in the work of colleagues who study neighboring regions and fields.

 

We therefore especially encourage submissions that can contribute to our collective interdisciplinary and interregional perspective. We also welcome submissions from students whose work, though grounded in a particular field, aims to examine the conceptual grounding of that field and its theoretical assumptions and methods.

 

This year’s themes for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

 

• Literatures and aesthetics
• Knowledge systems, classical and contemporary
• Genealogies of the political
• Religious studies
• Histories, disciplinary and subaltern

 

Students interested in presenting a paper should register and account and submit a 300 word abstract through the conference website:

http://mesaasgradconference.cdrs.columbia.edu[mesaasgradconference.cdrs.columbia.edu] by January 8, 2016.

 

Notifications will be sent in early February.
For other inquiries, please contact us via: mesaasgradconference@gmail.com