[ecrea] Cfp: "Rethinking Media Through the Middle East" - conference at AUB (Lebanon), January 2017

*Call for Conference Papers: Rethinking Media Through the Middle East
*(Abstracts due: July 15)

Organized by the Media Studies Program at the American University of Beirut
and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences
American University of Beirut
January 12 & 13, 2017

Within the field of media studies, Middle Eastern media is often treated as
a domain of interest only to area specialists. As Edward Said argued in
Orientalism, the region popularly known as the Middle East is not
peripheral but integral to European history, culture, and civilization.
This subversive insight, however, has largely been treated as secondary to
foundational claims in media theory. If knowledge about Middle Eastern
media usually serves only to supplement dominant frameworks and paradigms,
we are interested in thinking about the ways it can instead extend,
qualify, or even explode them.
‘Rethinking Media Through the Middle East’ aims to create an
interdisciplinary conversation to challenge this deficit. Taking a broad
view of the Middle East that incorporates the Arabic-speaking world,
Turkey, Iran, and various ethnic minority groups, this conference asks how
the Middle East might serve to disrupt, interrupt, subvert, challenge, or
transform our understanding of what media are and do. We are especially
interested in papers that shift our focus to south-south comparisons and
relationships or that challenge how we theorize US and European media. This
conference aims to explore the study of media as an independent field, but
one that interconnects, influences, and is influenced by other intellectual
formations and traditions.
See for more details:
http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/sbs/media_studies/Pages/News.aspx



Dr. Sarah Jurkiewicz

Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

Email: (sarah.jurkiewicz /at/ zmo.de)

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