ABOUT
This conference grounded in the Arab world will help internationalize the study of America to enable critical consideration of where and what is America – particularly in relation to the Arab uprisings and developments in the global map of power. We aim to turn the field of American Studies upside down and consider what we might gain from global analysis, beginning from spaces of rebellion, exposed by the Arab Spring and sites like Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park. Bringing together leading scholars from around the world who work in American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies or closely related fields, the conference assays a truly global ambit of analysis to acknowledge the interconnectedness of global developments and provide the means to extend and deepen critique of the myth of American exceptionalism.
Presentations will focus on some aspect of internationalizing interdisciplinary studies in order to trace Arab and American events as variants of global developments. Presentations and discussions will address themes related but not limited to the following:
Presentations will focus on some aspect of internationalizing interdisciplinary studies in order to trace Arab and American events as variants of global developments. Presentations and discussions will address themes related but not limited to the following:
- Migration, race, class, and gender as categories and as practices, exploring how they produce meaning and divisions across national boundaries.
- The endurance rather than dissolution of forms of slavery resulting from late capitalism.
- The racialization of Islam within a continuum of imperialism and fight for civil rights and liberation.
- The heterogeneity of dissenters mobilized by internationalized “threat” and claims to space.
- How cultural texts like film, new media, fiction, or comics transform the public sphere and imagine community to enable or inhibit social change.
- How Arabs, Americans and other groups construct national and transnational identities in light of local, regional, and global bio- and geo-politics.
SPONSORS
The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies is an independent academic institution for postgraduate studies in the social sciences, humanities, public administration, and development economics. The DI realizes its academic purpose by integrating teaching and learning with scientific research in a manner that prepares its graduates to become academic researchers and capable professionals in the social sciences, humanities, public administration and development economics.
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Qatar Foundation established Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) in 2006 as part of its ongoing commitment to establish Qatar as a knowledge-based economy. Qatar Foundation views research as essential to national and regional growth; as the means to diversify the nation’s economy, enhance educational offerings and develop areas that affect the community. To complement its vision of fostering a research culture in Qatar, QNRF introduced the Conference and Workshop Sponsorship Program (CWSP). The program aims to connect researchers in Qatar to their peers and colleagues, both at home and abroad, by exposing researchers or students to new research directions, findings, and education techniques.
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