38th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference:

“The Middle East from the Margins: Geographic, Temporal, Linguistic, and Cultural Boundary Crossers”,

University of Chicago,

4-5 May 2024

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.

Keynote. The keynote speaker of this year’s conference is Professor Suraiya Faroqhi, a pioneering social and cultural historian of the Ottoman Empire whose publications include Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources and Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire.

Deadline for abstracts: 26 January 2024.

Information:https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/uchicago-mehat-2024-cfp.pdf

https://theoknights.com/mehat/2023/12/13/annual-
middle-east-history-and-theory-conference-call-for-papers.html