Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025. Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects Deadline for submission: October 1, 2024
We now have a link to the announcement on our webpage. www.middleeastmedievalists.com/2024/05/diss...
Submission instructions: Please send a PDF of the dissertation to Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg at asteinberg@fas.harvard.edu. No external nominations or letters of support are required. Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2024.
Requirements for submission: Dissertations must have been filed and defended between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2024. Applicants must be current members of Middle East Medievalists. To join MEM or renew your membership please go to: www.middleeastmedievalists.com/membership-f...
MEM is pleased to announce 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 the second biennial prize at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association.
The Middle East Medievalists Executive Committee endorses MESA's statement on the recent intimidation, repression, and criminalization of campus protests. mesana.org/advocacy/let...
The MESA Board of Directors and its Committee on Academic Freedom view with alarm the attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests against the ongoing Israeli state violence agains...
If you are currently working on a project to preserve the cultural heritage of Gaza and Palestine more broadly, we would like to know about it.
The Board of Middle East Medievalists fully endorses the Middle East Studies Association's Board Joint Statement with its Committee on Academic Freedom regarding the ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage in Gaza. mesana.org/advocacy/let...
To celebrate, we are adding an extra year to the MEMbership of a random MEMber who joined during the MEMbership drive... and that lucky MEMber is @americanmaghreb.bsky.social! Congratulations to Kevin Blankinship!
Thank you to every one who joined, renewed an expired MEMbership, or renewed a current MEMbership during our recent MEMbership drive. While we didn't meet our goal of doubling our MEMbership, we did have 58 people sign up during the last week of February.