[Commlist] CFPs Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the 
following panels at the MLA convention in Toronto (Jan 7-10, 2021):

*Beyond Arab Dystopia: Hope in the Humanities*
Against notion of “inḥiṭāṭ”, articulations and negotiations of classical 
Arabic-Islamic images, discourses, practices of pluralism, tolerance, 
multiculturalism, multilingualism, translation as sites of a new 
humanism. Please send 300-word abstract, bio by 25 March 2020 to Rasha 
Chatta, EUME, Forum Transregionale Studien ((rc49 /at/ soas.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(rc49 /at/ soas.ac.uk)> )

*The Persistence of Palestine*
Beyond its national and all-too-human struggle, how and why has 
Palestine, as an idea and a question, persisted and become a defining 
ethos of/within the Humanities today? Please send 300-word abstract, 
short bio by 22 March 2020 to Ala A. Alryyes, Queens C, CUNY 
((alryyes /at/ alum.mit.edu) <mailto:(alryyes /at/ alum.mit.edu)> )

*Global Indigeneity*
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of 
“trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, 
histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, 
translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. Please send 
300-word abstract and short bio by 20 March 2020 to Ahmed Idrissi Alami, 
Purdue U ((aidrissi /at/ purdue.edu) <mailto:(aidrissi /at/ purdue.edu)> ) Neville W. 
Hoad, The University of Texas at Austin ((nhoad /at/ austin.utexas.edu) 
<mailto:(nhoad /at/ austin.utexas.edu)> )

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