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Call for Abstracts: JMEWS 10th Anniversary Celebration and 2014&#160;Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop in Honor of Sondra HaleTransnational Feminisms and the New Middle East InsurrectionsWe are pleased to announce that our upcoming 10th Anniversary Celebration&#160;and Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop in Honor of Sondra Hale&#160;will be held at Yale on Thursday, April 3, 2014, and will explore the topic&#160;of "Transnational Feminisms and the New Middle East Insurrections." Our&#160;Distinguished Lecturer will be Dr. Sondra Hale of the Departments of&#160;Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of California, LosAngeles. During the day, we will host a research conference around the&#160;theme, including Dr. Hale's Distinguished Lecture, followed by a dinner to&#160;celebrate JMEWS's 10th anniversary.We encourage you to present your research or to attend this event as a&#160;guest. In&#160;order to present your research, please submit a 200-word abstract to&#160;jmews@yale.edu&#160;by January 1, 2014. Unfortunately, we are unable to reimburse&#160;participants for any costs associated with presenting at or attending the&#160;conference. The Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop is open to all&#160;and free of charge.More information about dinner registration and cost will be available in&#160;the coming&#160;weeks.&#160;This event is sponsored by the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, the&#160;Council on Middle East Studies, and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center&#160;for International and Area Studies at Yale University. The&#160;Journal of Middle East Women's Studies is the official publication of the&#160;Association of Middle East Women's Studies.