[ecrea] Call for Panelists for MESA 2/8/17: Children, Youth, and Media in Conflict Zones

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*Call for Panelists****for the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 
Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November 18-21, 2017 – Deadline Feb 8, 
2017*
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*Children, Youth, and Media in Middle Eastern, North African, and Gulf 
Conflict Zones*
This panel seeks to carve out new pathways into the subject of children, 
media, and conflict. Abstracts are sought that critically interpret how 
Middle Eastern, North African, and Persian/Arabian Gulf children and 
youth use, play with, produce, interpret and/or are influenced by media 
in conflict zones/. /Abstracts should come from or be framed from the 
“voice”, or perspective of children and youth and connect how their 
respective media uses and practices impinge on the development of their 
culture, constructions of civic and national identity, intergroup 
attitudes, political opinions, and/or peace and conflict related 
practices and behaviors. To that effect, papers might examine the media 
uses and associated daily lives -- past and/or present -- of among 
others, Algerian, Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Lebanese, Libyan, 
Palestinian, Syrian, Tuareg, Yemini or Yezedi girls and boys. Papers 
that explore these areas as they relate to the lives of those among them 
who have been (forcibly-) migrated, are borderlands children, have been 
born due to the uses of rape as a weapon of war, and/or whom, through 
them, have become child mothers, are particularly encouraged.
Abstracts, and so papers, may conceptualize children/childhood or youth 
from a biological, legal, constructed, and/or subaltern perspective. 
They may either be modern or historical in focus. Field-based research 
from a variety of disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological 
perspectives are encouraged. Research from communication, children and 
youth/childhood studies, anthropology, political science, sociology, 
psychology, history and related disciplines are all welcome. To that 
effect, media analogous analyses of non-formal education, arts, music, 
dance, and leisure practices and spaces are invited. The goal of the 
panel will be to foster a critical transdisciplinary merger of these 
varied disciplinary approaches.
*If interested, and for any questions, please email Yael Warshel at 
(ywarshel /at/ gmail.com)**
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*The following information should be emailed by Feb 8, 2017:**
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1) your name, affiliation, and contact details.

2) a 300-400 word abstract fitting the above panel theme and MESA’s 
criteria for evaluating abstracts, including being, “scholarly”, and 
possessing “a strong, focused statement of thesis or significance, clear 
goals and methodology, well-organized research data, specified sources, 
and convincing, coherent conclusions.”
Yael Warshel

Telecommunications, Rock Ethics Institute, and Comparative and 
International Education
The Pennsylvania State University

(ywarshel /at/ gmail.com)



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