Call for Papers: International Conference
Reclaiming Identity and Memory: Creative Resistance, Indigeneity, and Cultural Production in the Middle East and Beyond
October 15–17, 2027 | Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2027
Marquette University, in collaboration with the Arab and Muslim Women's Research and Resource Institute (AMWRRI), invites proposals for the international conference Reclaiming Identity and Memory: Creative Resistance, Indigeneity, and Cultural Production in the Middle East and Beyond.
The conference brings together scholars, students, artists, practitioners, and community partners to examine how identity, memory, cultural heritage, and knowledge are preserved, contested, and transformed in contexts shaped by colonialism, displacement, migration, and historical violence.
Grounded in the Middle East and its diasporas, the conference also welcomes comparative and transnational perspectives. Interdisciplinary contributions from the humanities, social sciences, health and public health, education, communication, business, social work, law, and the arts are encouraged.
Conference themes include:
Creative resistance, cultural production, and material heritage
Indigeneity, collective memory, and cultural preservation
Migration, displacement, refugee experiences, and diaspora
Gender, inequality, health, and community wellbeing
Oral histories, archives, and community-engaged knowledge production
Literature, media, visual arts, and performance
AI, digital technologies, empire, and resistance
Law, justice, and human rights
We welcome individual papers, organized panels, roundtables, artistic presentations, and community-engaged scholarship. Graduate students and emerging scholars are encouraged to submit proposals.
Submission Requirements: A 250–300-word abstract and a 100–150-word biography.
Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2027
Acceptance Notifications: March 1–15, 2027
Full Call for Papers and Submission Portal:
https://epublications.marquette.edu/mu-reclaimmena/cfp.html
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