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Call for papers | 40th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT) “Playing with the Scales: The Local, Regional, and Global in Middle Eastern Studies”, University of Chicago, 1-2 May 2026 — LIMITE : 21/02/2026

 Since its inception four decades ago, the annual Middle East History and Theory Conference at the University of Chicago has earned a reputation as one of the premier academic gatherings in the field.

We are now accepting proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and independent scholars. We invite historians, linguists, anthropologists, literary scholars, sociologists, musicologists, scholars of religion, and political scientists whose work engages with a broad geography, including but not limited to, the Mediterranean, North and West Africa, and South and Central Asia, from Late Antiquity and the advent of Islam to the present.

We particularly encourage (but do not limit!) submissions related to this year’s overarching theme: “Playing with the Scales: The Local, Regional, and Global in Middle Eastern Studies.”  We invite you to problematize the scales of the phenomena, contexts, and developments our discipline and research shed light on. 

How do micro-scale engagements with Middle Eastern agents help us to understand global developments, like the transformation of law and statehood and the emergence of capitalism? What role do regional configurations, whether defined in terms of shared ecological, economic or political contexts, trade, religious or intellectual networks, play in shaping the interaction of individual, local, and global scales? How can our work account for these varied layers? The conference theme will also allow us to reflect this critical moment for our discipline amidst challenges that put humanistically informed area studies research at risk.

Deadline : February 21

Call for papers


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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (17 février 2026). Call for papers | 40th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT) “Playing with the Scales: The Local, Regional, and Global in Middle Eastern Studies”, University of Chicago, 1-2 May 2026 — LIMITE : 21/02/2026. IISMM. Consulté le 15 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/15pcb


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