NMCGSA 24th Annual Graduate Symposium
When and Where
Description
The Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Graduate Students’ Association (NMCGSA) is hosting its 25th Annual Symposium, "Dis/Connections: Interactions with the Past in West Asia and North Africa”.
This will be the first NMCGSA Symposium since the pandemic and thus, the theme of “Dis/Connections” reflects our desire to reforge connections with academic peers while also reflecting on themes of distance/nearness, continuity/change, and isolation/integration as it relates to the past in West Asia and North Africa, as well as our discipline’s engagement with that past.
Opening Remarks: Symposium Planning Committee Chairperson Rosemary Ott and NMC Department Chair Dr. Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alan Verskin (Department of History, University of Toronto)
There will be 22 presenters (students from both Canadian and international institutions) divided into 6 panels:
- Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies Panel on Continuities and Transformations in Modern Iran
- Reception and Reimagination in Literature, Art, and Performance
- Cultural Interactions and Change in Social and Intellectual Identity
- Representations and Projections of Rulership and Authority
- Critiques and Reinterpretations of Archaeological Methodologies
- Historicism, Historical Space, and the Subaltern
Registration is currently open and free of charge. Due to capacity limitations, spots for this in-person conference are limited.
To register or more information: https://forms.gle/knDhLqhujsEq4zfu5
See the event poster: 
NMCGSA_SymposiumAnnouncement.pdf