Call for Abstracts: Middle East Medievalists, November 22-25 (Deadline: February 5, 2025)

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MEM Panel Sponsorship for MESA 2025 (Washington, DC, on November 22-25): https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers

As part of the efforts of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) to raise the profile of medieval studies at MESA, the MEM Board of Directors announces our 2025 call for panel sponsorship. MEM is a MESA affiliate and thus may sponsor up to three panels at each annual meeting.

MEM sponsorship does not guarantee inclusion on the program, nor does it come with financial support. However, sponsorship highlights a panel to the MESA program committee, and, if it is accepted, the panel will appear as MEM-sponsored on the final program. We will also publicize MEM-sponsored panels to our membership and in MEM’s annual “Medieval MESA” circular.

We encourage all medievalists organizing panels for MESA 2023 to send us abstracts for both individual papers and the panel as a whole, as well as the names of participants, by February 5th, 2025, so the MEM board may consider them for sponsorship before the MESA deadline (Thurs Feb 13th)

Email your materials and/or any questions to Jonathan Brack: [email protected].

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Prize: Best dissertation, Middle East Medievalists, June 30, 2024

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Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to announce the 2024 iteration of its biennial prize for the best dissertation on the medieval Middle East (roughly 500–1500 CE). In an effort to recognize excellent doctoral research in the field, MEM will award this prize at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), to be held virtually in November 2024.
Requirements for submission:
  1. Dissertations must have been filed and defended between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2024.
  2. Applicants must be current members of Middle East Medievalists. To join MEM or renew your membership, please use the membership form.
Submission instructions:
  1. Please send a PDF of the dissertation to Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg at[email protected].
  2. No external nominations or letters of support are required.
  3. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2024.
About MEM: Middle East Medievalists is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences, at some point between the rough parameters of 500–1500 CE. As part of its effort to promote scholarship and facilitate communication among its members, MEM publishes a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Al-‘Usur al-Wusta.