[Commlist] Workshop CFP: Youth, Gender, and Digital Religion in the MENA Region

*Call for Papers***

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*Intersections of Youth, Gender, and Religion under Digital Media in the 
MENA Region***

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*Workshop***

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*26-27 September 2024, Leipzig University, Germany***

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*German****Research Foundation Project **“**Contested Pieties and 
Secularities: Family** a**nd Youth Politics in (post-Kemalist) 'New 
Turkey'**”*****

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This workshop aims to offer a platform to case studies and theoretical 
undertakings concentrating on the intersections of youth, gender, and 
religion under digital media in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 
region. Digital media played a central role in the popular social 
movements in the recent history of the region - namely the Arab Spring 
and the Gezi Protests a decade ago and most recently the protests in 
Iran. The prominence of the youth, women, and LGBTQ in these movements 
and the multiple ways in which religion and religiosities are 
addressed therein, render the MENA region an important site to study the 
intersections of youth, gender, and religion under digital media.


Some possible themes and topics for contributions to be analyzed within 
the framework of youth and/or gender, religion, and digital media in the 
MENA region are:


- Expressions and performances of religious identities

- Governance strategies and policies targeting the youth, gender, and 
sexuality

- New age religions and spiritualities

- Social media influencer economies

- Trans-regional and global flows and networks enabled by the digital 
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- Youth cultures

- Feminist and LGBTQ politics and collective movements

- Anti-gender politics and ideologies

- Negotiation of the religious-secular divide

- Anti-religious and secularist politics and post-secularity on digital 
media


Travel and accommodation costs of the selected participants will be 
covered or subsidized. However, due to limited budget, participantsare 
encouragedto use their institutional funding if available.One of the 
aims of the workshop is producing a special journal issue or a joint 
publication. After the workshop, submission of the final papers for 
publication will be expected within a reasonable amount of time.

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*Please send your abstracts of up to 500 words accompanied by a short 
bio** and information regarding whether you will need financial support 
for travel****and accommodation **to****_uelker.soezen@uni-leipzig.de_* 
<mailto:(uelker.soezen /at/ uni-leipzig.de)>* by May 3, 2024. *****

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*Convener:* Dr. Ülker Sözen, Institute for the Study of Religion, 
Leipzig University & Associate Member, Multiple Secularities Research Team

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*Deadline for abstracts: **03 May **2024***

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*Announcement of the selected papers: **17 **May 2024*

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*Workshop date: 26-27 September 2024*

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