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MENACA 2024: 2nd Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African, & Central Asian Dance, Music, and Performing Arts

Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Asian Dances (MENACA)

Schedule and Registration are available for The Second Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African and Central Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts (MENACA 2024) to be held in-person on the campus of Pomona College in Claremont, California, from 3-6 October 2024.

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Call for Applications: MESA/ACSS/OIB Summer 2025 Workshop

MESA

The Middle East Studies Association, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, the Orient Institute in Beirut are organizing a five-day workshop at the American University of Cairo, June 29-July 3. The workshop, which is co-sponsored by AUC, will bring together a select group of doctoral students from North American, German, and Arab universities to discuss the possibilities, critical approaches, epistemological, and practical challenges of undertaking archival and/or ethnographic research in the Arab region. 

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